Old Friends Quotes

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

  Anthony D. Williams

  Friendship, Treasure, Reuniting

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

  Ian Ziering

  Comforting

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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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• Old friends are best.

  John Selden

  Inspirational

  'Table Talk' (1689) 'Friends'

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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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• You meet a friend - your face brightens. You have struck gold.

  Kassia

  Friendship, Gold, Faces

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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

  People, Common, Whole Life

  "Lyle Lovett: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 23, 2012.

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

  George R. R. Martin

  Stories, Used

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1738, Bantam

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

  Hafez

  Friendship, Hate, Heart

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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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• 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 melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Years, Lessons, Melancholy

  Christopher Hitchens (2014). “Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere”, p.336, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• A friend is a gift you give yourself.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Friendship, Holiday, Real Friends

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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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