Old Friends Quotes - Page 5

• 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.

  Phyllis George

  Inspirational, Enemy, Something New

  Phyllis George (2002). “Never Say Never: 10 Lessons to Turn You Can't Into Yes I Can”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• The silver friend knows your present and the gold friend knows all of your past dirt and glories. Once in a blue moon there is someone who knows it all, someone who knows and accepts you unconditionally, someone who is there for life.

  Jill McCorkle

  Past, Moon, Blue

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• ...or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see.

  Doris Lessing

  Want, Wells, Known

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• Saving a letter from an old friend doesn't exist anymore. Everything is texted or emailed.

  James Caan

  Saving, Letters

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• I reckon I probably worked for Euripides a long time ago. I do think we have many Earth walks and it's possible that he's an old friend. Does that sound too stupid for words? Quite frankly I think I've been an actor in so many lifetimes.

  Joyce DeWitt

  Stupid, Thinking, Long

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• My Family and Other Saints echoes Gerald Durrell's classic memoir, My Family and Other Animals, not only in its title, but in its wonderful humor and lyrical prose. Like Durrell, Kirin Narayan takes the reader to a fascinating world far from our own, and brings to life its myriad sights, sounds and smells, while revealing the profound cultural beliefs of its people. India is just the most complex character among a cast of characters-family members, gurus, hippies, and neighbors-all of whom I now count as old friends.

  Judith Barrington

  Hippie, Character, Animal

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• Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves." "You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least.

  Jane Austen

  Children, Mistake, Compassion

  Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë (2017). “The Complete Works of Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abby, Persuasion, The Watsons, Sanditon, Lady Susan, Love and Freindship, The History of England, Lesley Castle”, p.261, e-artnow

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• You can't make old friends. You either have them or you don't.

  Kenny Rogers

  Twitter post from Apr 02, 2014

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• You always fed strays and bent down to talk to the dogs you met on the street, looking straight into their eyes as if they were old friends. (Maybe they are, you said. From another life.) You liked to go to the pound and look at them. You tried to send them messages of comfort. I couldn’t go because I started crying the one time I tried. All those eyes and the barks like sobs.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Dog, Eye, Looks

  Francesca Lia Block (2009). “Wasteland”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• It is always painful fo part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.

  Oscar Wilde

  Space, People, Unbearable

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.44, Prestwick House Inc

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• Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow To Be old friends?

  Horace Walpole

  Growing Up, Memories, Blessing

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• Books were like old friends, with their worn covers and well-thumbed pages.

  Naomi Ragen

  Book, Pages, Worn

  Naomi Ragen (2010). “Jephte's Daughter”, p.147, Macmillan

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• The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.

  Ugo Betti

  Years, Temptation, Looks

  Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”

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• You won't now tell people you're in your 60′s
  Indeed, you'll have to pretend, no end
  That you're close to being 70
  Let me be the first to agree, old friend

  John Walter Bratton

  Birthday, People, Firsts

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• 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.

  Dave Matthews

  Friendship, Long Ago, Walks

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• In no other pursuit is the best or the worst in a man brought out as in mountaineering. An old friend of civilization may be a useless companion on a mountain.

  Frank Smythe

  Men, Hiking, Civilization

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• Kazan was an old friend, I met him in 1938. He picked up radio jobs for eating money, so I met him on a couple of radio shows. Later on I was in a play he directed.

  Richard Widmark

  Money, Jobs, Couple

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

  Bob Hope

  Golf, Balls, Lost

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• But then fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you.

  Stephen King

  Summer, Fall, Autumn

  Stephen King (2008). “'Salem's Lot”, p.200, Anchor

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• I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.

  Charles Bukowski

  Used

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.302, Canongate Books

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• 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.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Book, Different, Kind

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• There was a smile dancing on his lips, although it was a wary smile, for the world is a bigger place than a little graveyard on a hill; and there would be dangers in it and mysteries, new friends to make, old friends to rediscover, mistakes to be made and many paths to be walked before he would, finally, return to the graveyard or ride with the Lady on the broad back of her great grey stallion.

  Neil Gaiman

  Smile, Mistake, Dancing

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.190, A&C Black

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• 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

  Tragedy, Affection, Hearty

  Sinclair Lewis (2002). “Arrowsmith: Elmer Gantry ; Dodsworth”

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• 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

  Betty White

  People, Age, Boards

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

  Jane Austen

  Mrs Bennet, Prejudice, Nerves

  "Pride and Prejudice".

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