Old Friends Quotes

• Old friends become more and more precious to us as the years pass. They can look at us for who we once were and who we are now, appreciating the difficulties we have overcome, the abilities we have acquired, and the ways we have stayed true to ourselves.

  Wendy Lustbader

  Years, Appreciate, Overcoming

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Friendship, Antiques, Remember

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• New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don't forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems.

  Unknown

  Needs, May, Alphabet

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• Old friends are memories personified.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Memories

  Richard Paul Evans (2012). “Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• To be with old friends is very warming and comforting.

  Ian Ziering

  Comforting

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• Finding an old friend is like finding a lost treasure.

  Anthony D. Williams

  Friendship, Treasure, Reuniting

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• Old friends are best.

  John Selden

  Inspirational

  'Table Talk' (1689) 'Friends'

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• The best mirror is an old friend.

  George Herbert

  Friendship, Patience, Real Friends

  George Herbert, Joseph Hall (1855). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall”, p.303

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• It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Best Friend, Friendship, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.195, Harvard University Press

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• Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Author's complete ed”, p.638

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• Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Wine, Cheese, Be Good

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• There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.

  Sylvia Plath

  Friendship, Inspiring, Funny Best Friend

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.24, Hamilton Books

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• We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Friendship, True Friend, Real

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1988). “Among Friends: Who We Like, Why We Like Them, and What We Do with Them”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

  Tennessee Williams

  Life, Friendship, Birthday

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• Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.

  Hafez

  Friendship, Hate, Heart

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• I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Friendship, Birthday

  1773 She Stoops to Conquer, act 1, sc.1.

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• To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again.

  Ricky Nelson

  Friendship, Song, Memories

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• A friend is a gift you give yourself.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Friendship, Holiday, Real Friends

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• Say what you want about aging,
  it's still the only way to have old friends.

  Robert Breault

  Friendship, Real Friends, Getting Older

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• 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

  Friendship, Good Morning, Meaningful

  "The Dalai Lama, A Policy of Kindness: An Anthology by and about the Dalai Lama" edited by Sidney Piburn, (p. 32), 1990.

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• There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.

  Henry Ford

  Book, Age, Three

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• When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

  Henri Nouwen

  Love, Friendship, Pain

  "Kindness Can Open Hearts and Unexpected Opportunities" by Kare Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2015.

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• 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

  Friendship, True Friend, Real Friends

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• The thing I have really enjoyed lately is to realise I know people, and good people everywhere. What I enjoy is meeting people, staying at their places, discover a city that way. And I found out this can be done because there is always a potential friend anywhere. I have the luck to have old friends who stay friends for eternity. They are my stable basis, my territory.

  Gaspar Claus

  People, Luck, Done

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• A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

  Walter Winchell

  Friendship, Sympathy, True Friend

  Walter Winchell (1975). “Winchell exclusive: "things that happened to me--and me to them”

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