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Old friends are best. -- John Selden
Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. -- Oliver Goldsmith
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of. -- Sarah Orne Jewett
It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends. -- Sinclair Lewis
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. -- Francis Bacon
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day. -- Dalai Lama
The best mirror is an old friend. -- Peter Nivio Zarlenga
There's no friends like the old friends. -- James Joyce
There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met. -- Jim Henson
Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When we forget old friends, it is a sign we have forgotten ourselves. -- William Hazlitt
There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends. -- Sylvia Plath
Condiments are like old friends - highly thought of, but often taken for granted. -- Marilyn Kaytor
Say what you want about aging, it's still the only way to have old friends. -- Robert Breault
We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young. -- Letty Cottin Pogrebin
An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost. -- Samuel Johnson
Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet. -- John Selden
Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful. -- Ian Mckellen
Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends. -- Mary Catherwood
I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend. This gives me a genuine feeling of happiness. It is the practice of compassion. -- Dalai Lama
My coat and I live comfortably togther. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm. Old coats and old friends are the same thing. -- Victor Hugo
I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me. I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be; I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way. -- Edgar Guest
When I see old friends, I'm very excited. -- Chino Moreno
To be with old friends is very warming and comforting. -- Ian Ziering
Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent. -- Lionel Blue
Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best. -- John Webster
To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again. -- Ricky Nelson
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. -- Athenaeus
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure. -- Bernard Baruch
It's fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us discover new people as well. -- Ethan Zuckerman
When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors - old friends, family. -- Dave Grohl
You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common. -- Lyle Lovett
One of things I like about looking at pictures when you're young and also meeting back with old friends you haven't seen in a long time is, for me, it's a glimpse of who I was. -- Lea Thompson
Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld. -- Henry Williamson
The thing is, when you see your old friends, you come face to face with yourself. I run into someone I've known for 40 or 50 years, and they're old. And I suddenly realize I'm old. It comes as an enormous shock to me. -- Polly Bergen
I never feel lonely if I've got a book - they're like old friends. Even if you're not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they're part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life. -- Emilia Fox
I love San Francisco so much. I call it the Emerald City and have been coming here since 1992. I have a few old friends that live here, and my aunt and uncle live in Oakland. I think it's a magical city - it's big, sexy and very 'cosmo' with a small-town feel. -- Andy Cohen
I miss all of my old friends who have passed away. Sometimes you just don't understand why they were taken so soon. I loved and miss Johnny Cash. I miss my old buddy Johnny Paycheck, who happens to be buried in an area of the cemetery that I bought for my family. -- George Jones
Not a lot of people know me outside of athletics and believe it or not I am actually quite shy. The exhilaration of a win or tears after falling are the extremes. It takes me a while to get to know someone, but once I do I am very loyal to my old friends. -- Sally Pearson
I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that they're going home when they return to see old friends or parents, but then they go home as well when they go to where they live now. Sarajevo is home, Chicago is home. -- Aleksandar Hemon
What I wear is a reflection of where I am going and how I am feeling. If I'm in a good mood, it's got to be cashmere and jeans - just something comfy, soft and warm. When I'm down, I might find something that I haven't worn for a while that was bought for me - or wear a brooch or a pair of shoes that are like old friends. -- Kim Cattrall
Old friends are memories personified. -- Richard Paul Evans
We grow too old to lose old friends ... -- Beth Kephart
My dear old dog, most constant of all friends. -- William Croswell Doane
Good friends walk in when the old ones walk out. -- Helen Keller
Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends. -- Hafez
To be with old friends is very warming and comforting, -- Ian Ziering
Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise. -- Charles Kingsley
Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends." -- H. Jackson Brown Jr.
It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends. -- Mason Cooley
How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends! -- George Eliot
Books were like old friends, with their worn covers and well-thumbed pages.. -- Naomi Ragen
New friends can often have a better time together than old friends. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
You can't make old friends. You either have them or you don't. -- Kenny Rogers
When I go out with my 16-year-old friends, I don't wear Chanel. -- Bridget Hall
I have the highest respect for your nerves, they are my old friends. -- Jane Austen
Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold. -- Joseph Parry
It's an old axiom of mine: marry your enemies and behead your friends. -- Robert N. Lee
Daughters are supposed to be friends to their mothers in their old age. -- Paullina Simons
Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses. -- Robert Burton
... old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life. -- Dorothy Gilman
In a better world we will find our young years and our old friends. -- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
And like the old stereotype, I overcame my shyness by making my friends laugh. -- Paul Merton
Suddenly, my friend's daughters are becoming my best friends. I have so many 12-year-old girlfriends. -- Cate Blanchett
Some possessions are like old friends, and you never want to abandon an old friend. -- Nina Campbell
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends. -- Christopher Hitchens
It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends. -- Jean Racine
Friends can betray you, but with an old enemy, you always know where you stand. -- Raymond E. Feist
There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. -- Benjamin Franklin
Unknown Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold. -- Muhammad Ali
When old friends get together, everything else fades to insignificance."- War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death -- Robert Asprin
The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones. -- Oscar Wilde
It's the worst part of seeing old friends: when your rose-colored memories become undone by reality. -- Brad Meltzer
It's less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart. -- Frederick Buechner
For all of us, whether we walk old paths or blaze new trails, friends remain important. -- Lois Wyse
Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There's one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die - their silence. -- Ben Hecht
Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade. -- Gelett Burgess
We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Among my friends love is a payment. It is an old debt for a borrowing foolishly spent. -- William Dunbar
I found the evil in myself a long time ago, and I've accepted it. We're old friends. -- Johnny Depp
Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what e gets if he loses both -- Aesop
When I see friends from school I think they've all grown old and I've stayed the same. -- Steve Coogan
I have no talent for making new friends, but oh such genius for fidelity to old ones. -- Daphne du Maurier
I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around. -- Maeve Binchy
Friends that you have known for a long time and love very dearly never seem to grow old. -- D.E. Stevenson
I have never wanted to live to be old, so old I'd run out of friends or money. -- Margot Fonteyn
I'm a very honorable person. I have lifelong friends from birth, from grammar school, from five years old. -- Tony Vlachos
The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them. -- Norm MacDonald
Peggy Atwood, Alice Munro, Hugh Hood, Michael Ondaatje - these are all old friends from my early 20s. -- Clark Blaise
One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends. -- Rachel Field
How enriched life is by friends! Good friends, new friends, old friends, feathered friends, feline friends, friends of friends... -- Laurel Burch
And the only sign of life is the ticking of the pen, introducing characters to memory like old friends. -- Fish
I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension. -- Bela Lugosi
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old. -- Mark Twain
People have always said I have an old soul, and all my best friends are 10 to 15 years my senior. -- Nick Cannon
Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time. -- George R. R. Martin
I don't drink a lot. My family calls me an old soul. And my friends call me a pussy. -- Mike Birbiglia
And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs. -- Beau Bridges
I remember listening to Cube's music when I was like 14 years old, my friends listening to it up in Toronto. -- Scott Speedman
Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them... -- Aristotle
My older brother was cool, so I was suddenly cool by association. And I totally dusted all my old math friends. -- David Spade
You 50 year old one-breasted bag of meat. Just hang it up and be grateful some of your friends are still living. -- Jim Norton
My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever. -- George R. R. Martin
Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. -- Victor Hugo
When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not. -- Jonathan Swift
We regard America and Europe as old friends. We keep old friends, but we make new friends in Japan, India, and China. -- Olusegun Obasanjo
Well, hello, Peter," said Lupin pleasantly, as though rats frequently erupted into old school friends around him. "Long time, no see. -- J. K. Rowling
I don't like old friends talking to me like I'm a pop star, cos it makes me feel like I'm becoming two-dimensional. -- Thom Yorke
When I was 5 years old, my best friends were Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen because we lived across the street from each other. -- Troian Bellisario
Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still. -- Whitney Otto
All my favorite stars, my family and my friends are here. I'm having the happiest birthday that an 18-year-old girl could ever have. -- Brandy Norwood
New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don't forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems. -- William Shakespeare
I'm an old member of Greenpeace. I worried intensely, as I think most of my friends did, that the world was coming apart. -- Bjorn Lomborg
Nature is an old lady with few friends these days, and those who wish to make use of her charms, she rewards passionately. -- Tim Krabbe

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