Old Friends Quotes - Page 12

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

  Wilson Rawls

  Thousand, Worth It

  Wilson Rawls (2011). “Where the Red Fern Grows”, p.235, Laurel Leaf

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• Old friends, like old shoes, are comfortable. But old shoes, unlike old friends, tend not to be supportive: it is easier to stumble and sprain an ankle while wearing a pair of old shoes than it is in new shoes, with their less yielding leather.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  New Shoes, Supportive, Ankles

  Alexander McCall Smith (2010). “The Unbearable Lightness of Scones”, p.37, Anchor

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• There [is] a feeling of recognition, as of meeting an old friend, which comes to us all in the face of great artistic experiences. I had the same experience when I first heard an English folksong, when I first saw Michelangelo's Day and Night, when I suddenly came upon Stonehenge or had my first sight of New York City - the intuition that I had been there already.

  Ralph Vaughan Williams

  New York, Night, Sight

  "R.V.W.: A Biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams". Book by Ursula Vaughan Williams, p. 30, "Musical Autobiography" (1950), 1964.

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• The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. ... Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.

  B. C. Forbes

  Friendship, Loyalty, True Friend

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• How enriched life is by friends! Good friends, new friends, old friends, feathered friends, feline friends, friends of friends.

  Laurel Burch

  Good Friend, New Friends, Life Is

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• Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live; yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old friend, let not your heart be silent on the dissolving of a faith.

  James Anthony Froude

  Heart, Tears, Bed

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.34

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

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Welcome

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1850). “Poems lyrical and dramatic, including “The seaside and the fireside” ... Second edition”, p.321

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