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 Catherwoods
There is only one
thing better than making a new friend, and that is
keeping an old one.
— Elmer G. Letereman
I always like to know everything about my new
friends, and nothing about my old ones.
— Oscar Wilde
Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can
catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out
of.
— Sarah Orne Jewett
Forsake not an old
friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new
friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink
it with pleasure.
– Apocrypha. Ecclesiastics
9:10.
It's funny how in the end, you always go back, to
the old friends that have been there from the very
beginning
— Unknown Wise Person
Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly,
cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns
against them.
— William Hazlitt
The best mirror is an old friend.
— George Herbert
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
— John Leonard
What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we
shall be by-and-by. Never mind — the uglier we get in
the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each
other; that has always been my firm faith about
friendship.
— George Eliot
Until he becomes prosperous, a man doesn't realize
how many old friends he has.
— Unknown Wise Person
Old friends are the
great blessing of one's later years . . . They have a
memory of the same events and have the same mode of
thinking.
— Horace Walpole
Understand that friends come and go, but with a
precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the
more you need the people who knew you when you were
young.
— Mary Schmich
Old books that have ceased to be of service should
no more be abandoned than should old friends who have
ceased to give pleasure.
— Peregrine, Sir Worsthorne
As in the case of
wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships
ought to be the most delightful.
— Cicero
It is one of the
blessings of old friends that you can afford to be
stupid with them.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friends and wine
should be old.
— Spanish Proverb
Ah, how good it feels!
The hand of an old friend.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
But just as delicate fare does not stop you from
craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship
does not take away your taste for something new and
dubious.
— Colette
With clothes the new are best; with friends the old
are best.
— Chinese Proverb
Make new friends but cherish the old
ones.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Years and years of happiness only make us realize
how lucky we are to have friends that have shared and
made happiness a reality.
— Robert E. Frederick
An old friend never
can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot
easily be lost.
— Samuel Johnson
