Old Friends Quotes

And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.

You were worth it, old friend, and a thousand times over.

... old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life.

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

Keep your family and old friends around you. That's what I had done and that's what saved my life when it came to being famous.

People have told me 'Betty, Facebook is a great way to keep in touch with old friends...' .. At my age, if I wanted to keep in touch with old friends, I'd need a Ouija board

Welcome, my old friend, Welcome to a foreign fireside.

No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.

I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.

Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet.

I miss friends and family. If it weren't for visits from old friends and other African Americans I meet who come to Cuba, I'd probably be in some kind of time warp.

We need new friends; some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact the ideal version of their lives.

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.

Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.

To be with old friends is very warming and comforting.

I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends.

In a better world we will find our young years and our old friends.

Are you looking for gold, friend? Look around you; anything useful to you is pure gold, pure silver!

One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.

Many people consider me an old friend.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

Old books, old wine, old Nankin blue;- All things, in short, to which belong The charm, the grace that Time makes strong, All these I prize, but (entre nous) Old friends are best!

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors - old friends, family.

I privately say to you, old friend... please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parentheses: (((()))).

I had not met Tina Fey before I auditioned for 30 Rock. Some people think were old friends from Second City days. I had always been a fan of Tinas. But I actually never planned on being in a sitcom.

My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before.

If you're old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Facebook exactly as advertised, you look up old friends.

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good old friend.

An ardent lover often makes a cold friend.

Failure can get to be a rather comfortable old friend.

We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight.

Change to me is like an old friend. It's not my enemy anymore. And I know it will keep coming back to visit again and again to teach me something new.

The only good thing about going to the fights is you can go into the green room and you can see some of your old friends that you haven't seen in a long time.

I have many, many old friends, and I always think that it's important, when you get into politics, to have friends you had before you were in politics and to understand what's on their minds.

Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.

As soon as you get a certain amount of attention, then everybody kinda wants to start taking pot shots at you. All your old friends that supported you don't support you any more.

So many of my friends, old friends I haven't seen in years, made their way out there and got lost, then found their way back. That seems believable to me.

Me and Fred Wolf wrote the movie [ Grown Ups]. The whole idea was about putting together old friends that get to hang out for a weekend.

Old friend,' said Cadvan, filling another glass for himself and sniffing its rich smell. 'If we do not trust one another, we are already defeated.

We grow too old to lose old friends.

Exercise is like an old friend: You may not be able to see that friend all the time, but you're not mad when you see them, you're happy, and you get right back into it.

My old friend Jack Benny has only had one ball all his golfing life. And now he's lost it. The string came off!

It's the worst part of seeing old friends: when your rose-colored memories become undone by reality.

When I go out with my 16-year-old friends, I don't wear Chanel.

Biking through New York's boroughs in 2005, I thought about some old friends, Joe and Eileen Bailey. Though they are imaginary, I frequently talk to them.

Treat each person as you would an old friend.

I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend [with dignity, with honor].

I'll be back 'round again, yes, I'll walk in time with you, old friend. And we'll find that place that we had danced in so long ago.

I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life, and partly to have the sense of returning to an old friend.

It’s less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart.