Old Friends Quotes - Page 12

• What find you better or more honourable than age? Take the preheminence of it in everything, in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree.

  Shackerley Marmion

  Wine, Age, Pedigree

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 10th edition, 1919.

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• A proper record shop reminds us why we got into this in the first place - a place to be reminded of old friends, still in their spots on the shelves, a source of unexpected magic and lucid memories - a place that reminds us that music is more than dumb file sharing and the management of dead data by faceless sociopathic corporations, but a storehouse of dreams, both possible and impossible.

  Max Richter

  Dream, Memories, Data

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• Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.

  George Eliot

  Friends, Yesterday, Forever

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• Failure can get to be a rather comfortable old friend.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Failure, Comfortable

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.12, BookBaby

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• The soil of friendship is worn out with constant use. Habit may still attach us to each other, but we feel ourselves fettered by it. Old friends might be compared to old married people without the tie of children.

  William Hazlitt

  Friendship, Children, Ties

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.493

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• The inclusiveness of the Drama League luncheon is one of the most exciting things about it. I get to see old friends and meet new friends. Of course I can't tell who anybody is if they're under the age of 75. So my old friends become my new friends.

  James Earl Jones

  Drama, League, Age

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• What I do is I don't act a part, I give a piece of myself. Old friends that have known me for a long time, when they saw me in my first movie said: "Roland you are not acting; you are just being yourself." But I don't think you can deliver a role without putting something of yourself into it, and I just realised that everyday we do a little bit of acting.

  Roland Møller

  Being Yourself, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.popmatters.com

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