There's no friends like the old friends. — James Joyce
To keep a new friend, never break with the old. — Proverbs
Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best. — John Webster
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. — George Washington
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 Author
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. — Sir Richard Francis Burton
True friendship is rare. Don’t let a little dispute ruin a friendship. — Steve Maraboli
Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way. — Charles Kingsley
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. — Samuel Butler
Short Old Friendship Quotes
Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace. — Alphonse De Lamartine
There's something about childhood friends that you just can't replace. — Lisa Whelchel
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. — Charles Alexander Eastman
A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady. — Thomas Moore
No friendship is an accident. — O. Henry
The friendship that can cease has never been real. — St. Jerome
True friends are like bright sunflowers that never fade away, even over distance and time — Unknown Author
Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports. — Kenneth Branagh
Friends are treasures. — Horace Bruns
Friendships and loves are forgotten, and when they meet, they talk like strangers, like passers-by — Greek Proverbs
Old Friendship Image Quotes
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Long Friendship Quotes
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. — Douglas Pagels
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. — Simone de Beauvoir
People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out. — Michael Bassey
You heart and my heart are very, very old friends.
When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us. — Oswald Chambers
There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
It's friendship and community that embed a new identity and help behaviors last over the long run. — James Clear
Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.
Instant gratification is the kiss of death. That mindset hurts anything it touches. Business, health, politics, friendship, relationship, finances. It attracts short-term thinkers and is turned off by long-term thinkers. Don't fall for this trap. — Patrick Bet-David
You know, Sal, for a long time would hate taking elevators with me. Because he knew when those doors closed I was going to do something stupid to embarrass him. So he'd opt to take the stairs a lot. — Joe Gatto
When the night has come and the land is dark and the moon is the only light we see. No, I won't be afraid, no, I won't be afraid, just as long as you stand, stand by me. — Ben E. King
If the sky that we look upon should tumble and fall. Or the mountain should crumble to the sea. I won't cry, no I won't shed a tear, just as long as you stand by me. — Ben E. King
Old Friends Quotes
Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends. — Hafez
I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold. — Jimmy Buffett
Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate. — Sigmund Freud
Instead of friends, I see in Washington only mortal enemies. Instead of loving the old flag of the stars and stripes, I see in it only the symbol of murder, plunder, oppression, and shame. — Rose O'Neal Greenhow
Pay less attention to what men say. Just watch what they do. — Dale Carnegie
We feel guilt when we no longer want to associate with old friends and colleagues who haven’t changed. — Naval Ravikant
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
Old Friends Meet Quotes
Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life. — Adam Gopnik
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 Catherwood
You meet a friend - your face brightens. You have struck gold. — Kassia
The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one. — Oliver Goldsmith
I've maintained old friendships, like with people I knew in the nineteen-seventies, but have lost the knack for meeting new people. This has a lot to do with my writing schedule. I don't want to be disturbed, and the willingness to be disturbed is, I think, part of being a good friend. — David Sedaris
Death is an old friend; I know him well. I lived with him, ate with him, slept with him; to meet him again does not frighten me death is as necessary as birth, as happy in its own way. — Robert A. Heinlein
I like America anyway. In Japan we are much more formal. If two friends are separated for a long time and they meet they bow and bow and bow. They keep bowing without exchanging a word. Here they slap each other on the back and say: Hello, old man, how goes everything. — Sessue Hayakawa
I miss friends and family. If it weren't for visits from old friends and other African Americans I meet who come to Cuba, I'd probably be in some kind of time warp. — Assata Shakur
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
Words have divided man from woman,
one from another, this from that,
until only sages know how to put things together.
Without words, without even understanding,
lovers find each other.
The moment of finding is always a surprise,
like meeting an old friend never before known. — Lao Tzu
Enduring Friendship Quotes
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. — Friedrich Nietzsche
One of the most enduring friendships in history - dogs and their people, people and their dogs. — Terry Kay
Friends are "annuals" that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a "perennial" that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There's a place in the garden for both of them. — Erma Bombeck
The culture of drink endures because it offers so many rewards: confidence for the shy, clarity for the uncertain, solace to the wounded and lonely, and above all, the elusive promises of friendship and love. — Pete Hamill
Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient. — Soren Kierkegaard
Think to Thank. In these three words are the finest capsule course for a happy marriage, formula for enduring friendship, and a pattern for personal happiness. — Thomas S. Monson
In these fast and fickle times, it’s nice to know that there are some things you can always count on: the enduring brilliance of the last page of The Great Gatsby; the near-religious harmonies of the Beach Boys’ “California Girls”; and the lifelong friendship of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. — Sarah Vowell
To ask me whether I could endure to live without friends is absurd. It is easy enough to live out of material sight of friends, but to live without human love is impossible. — John Muir
It is better to break off a thousand friendships, than to endure the sight of a single enemy. — Saadi Shirazi
To be truthful i am not entirely sure what people mean when they talk of happiness. There are moments of joy and laughter, the comfort of friendship, but enduring happiness? If it exists i have not found it — David Gemmell
Childhood Friend Quotes
I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty. — Gordon Parks
From the time I was 9 years old, I loved magic. I was an only child, and I think that had a big impact on me. I always had grown-up friends even though I was a little kid. I would take the train from Lido Beach into Manhattan, and I'd hang out in magic shops. — Rick Rubin
I never really had a celebrity crush when I was little. I know some of my friends have posters up on their bedroom wall; I was never really about that. — Sadie Sink
A lot of my friends who were really sporty in year 7 and 8, in years 9 and 10 they stopped playing. It was a shame. — Ellyse Perry
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. — Tom Stoppard
I have three best friends in this world. What's surprising is that they also happen to be your (audience) three best friends. They are Bachpan (childhood), Jawani (Youth) and Budhapa (old age). — Kishore Kumar
People will laugh at me, but when they ask me to make a wish for the next life, I will say I want the same parents, same brother and sister, same wife, same friends. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
I did not have the moments of so-called normal people during adolescence, like going out with friends, enjoying good times. — Kylian Mbappe
I don't think if you asked any of my childhood friends they would say that I had a weird childhood; they might say there weren't a lot of regular rules, the conversations in the house were always very open, dreams were a great thing to talk about, everybody was making something all the time. — Jennifer Lynch
. . . the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Oldest Friends Quotes
We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
In swimming, everyone calls me grandma, because I'm the oldest there. Then with my friends, I'm the youngest and I'm the baby. It's definitely bizarre. — Amanda Beard
He knew. I could see it in his face. Look, if someone gets infected you've got between ten and twenty seconds to kill them. It might be your brother or your sister or your oldest friend. It makes no difference. And just so you know where you stand - if it happens to you, I'll do it in a heartbeat. — Selena
You're nice,' Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. 'And you're my oldest friend.' But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends. — John Irving
I have three kids, the oldest is 18 and her friends are going to see it The Aristocrats because they told her they're going to see it, especially her guy friends. — Bob Saget
As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Peter Dinklage is one of my oldest friends from New York! — Sam Trammell
Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from. — Beau Bridges
Bjork is one of my oldest friends so we share the friendship and common roots. That is what we build on when we work together. — Sjon
New Friendship Quotes
We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere. — Tim McGraw
Great power can come from memorizing scriptures. To memorize a scripture is to forge a new friendship. It is like discovering a new individual who can help in time of need, give inspiration and comfort, and be a source of motivation for needed change — Richard G. Scott
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min? — Robert Burns
May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, angels protect you and heaven accept you — Drake
Any day spent with you is my favorite day. So today is my new favorite day. — A. A. Milne
A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship. — Markus Zusak
Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. — Kahlil Gibran
Friendship is so weird. You just pick a human you've met and you're like, 'Yep, I like this one,' and you just do stuff with them. — Bill Murray
At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation. — Li Peng
Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world. — Jules Verne
Former Friends Quotes
My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change. — William Banting
I don't think I possess any skill that anyone else doesn't have. I've just had perhaps more of an opportunity, more of an exposure, and been fortunate to survive a lot of situations that many other weren't so lucky to make it. — Bob Hoover
As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task. — Diogenes
There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality. — Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon
I'd say to any woman, get out of that bad relationship that's turning you into a shell of your former self. Learn from it and get out. Then wait; enjoy yourself and your friends because, when what you want comes along, you'll spot it. — Cat Deeley
Not to mention our former tag team champions lost their titles after my good friend Christian was hit in the genitals with a hockey stick by a midgit! I mean enough is enough — Kurt Angle
Your former friend Luke " Poseidon corrected. "He once promised things like that. He was Hermes's pride and joy. Just bear that in mind Percy. Even the bravest can fall. — Rick Riordan
I have been formerly so silly as to hope that every servant I had might be made a friend; I am now convinced that the nature of servitude generally bears a contrary tendency. People's characters are to be chiefly collected from their education and place in life; birth itself does but little. — William Shenstone
The more noisy Negro leaders, by depicting all whites as natural and implacable enemies to their race, have done it a great disservice. Large numbers of whites who were formerly very
friendly to it, and willing to go to great lengths to help it, are now resentful and suspicious. — H. L. Mencken
It was all that stuff about taking your parents' car when you're 13, sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with your friends. I could relate to that as a former teenager, rather than as a present parent. — Donal Logue
Friendship Memories Quotes
Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. — Banana Yoshimoto
Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone. — Vincent Van Gogh
Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind. — Jackie Robinson
When I recollect the treasure of friendship that has been bestowed upon me I withdraw all charges against life. If much has been denied me, much, very much has been given. So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart I shall say that life is good. — Helen Keller
In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips. — Salman Rushdie
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. — Donna Roberts
I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good Friends — William Shakespeare
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. — Abraham Lincoln
Friends are the most important part of your life. Treasure the tears, treasure the laughter, but most importantly, treasure the memories. — David Brenner
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. — Bruce Lee
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. — Plato
Once there was a darkness, a deep and endless night, you gave me everything you had and oh, you gave me light — Sarah McLachlan
This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep appreciation for the close friendship between our two nations. — Lincoln Chafee
If a fox is unable to befriend a tiger, then the fox should create an illusion of close association with the tiger by carefully trailing behind the cat while boasting of the deep friendship they share. In this way, he creates an impression that his well being is of great concern to the tiger. — Chin-Ning Chu
Will it not be wise to allow the friendship between nations to rest upon deep and permanent things? Irritations of the cuticle must not be confounded with heart failure. — Benjamin Harrison
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. — Elie Wiesel
As human beings we each have a responsibility to care for humanity. Expressing concern for others brings inner strength and deep satisfaction. As social animals, human beings need friendship, but friendship doesn't come from wealth and power, but from showing compassion and concern for others. — Dalai Lama
The United States was the first country to recognize Israel in 1948, minutes after its declaration of independence, and the deep bonds of friendship between the U.S. and Israel remain as strong and unshakeable as ever. — Barack Obama
As the years progress one increasingly realises the importance of friendship and human solidarity. And if a 90-year-old may offer some unsolicited advice on this occasion, it would be that you, irrespective of your age, should place human solidarity, the concern for the other, at the centre of the values by which you live. — Nelson Mandela
Say what you want about aging,
it's still the only way to have old friends. — Robert Breault
There is no friend like the old friend, who has shared our morning days,
No greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise:
Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I had a friend, Melissa, who was 28 years old. She was my best friend's wife, and she was my wife's best friend. She died of breast cancer. When she passed away back in 2004 was the last time I cried. — Jason Aldean
My dear old dog, most constant of all friends. — William Croswell Doane
There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends. — Sylvia Plath
People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it. — W. Somerset Maugham
My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever. — George R. R. Martin
When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said-yet this wasn't totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart. — Willie Morris
There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met. — Jim Henson
If there is anything in life in which I take a pardonable pride, it is my friendship for certain old woodsmen and hunters; obscure men, as far as the world is concerned, but faithful friends, loyal comrades. — Archibald Rutledge
Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces. — Austin O'Malley
Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Beautiful and rich is an old friendship, Grateful to the touch as ancient ivory, Smooth as aged wine, or sheen of tapestry Where light has lingered, intimate and long. Full of tears and warm is an old friendship That asks no longer deeds of gallantry, Or any deed at all- save that the friend shall be Alive and breathing somewhere, like a song. — Eunice Tietjens
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light. — Lady Randolph Churchill
I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me. I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be; I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way. — Edgar Guest
A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, big or small, young or old. He doesn't care if you're not smart, not popular, not a good joke-teller, not the best athlete, nor the best-looking person. To your dog, you are the greatest, the smartest, the nicest human being who was ever born. You are his friend and protector. — Louis Sabin
The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses. — Darin Strauss
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose. — Tennessee Williams
Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good. — Reinhold Niebuhr
I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones. — Oscar Wilde
[My father] was generous with his affection, given to great, awkward, engulfing hugs, and I can remember so clearly the smell of his hugs, all starched shirt, tobacco, Old Spice, and Cutty Sark. Sometimes I think I've never been properly hugged since. — Linda Ellerbee
There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal. — Livy
He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool. — Farquhar McGillivray Knowles
The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live. — Armistead Maupin
Finding an old friend is like finding a lost treasure. — Anthony D. Williams
"I should hope so," Laigle replied, "for my coat and I live comfortably together. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and 1 only feel its presence because it keeps me warm." — Victor Hugo
Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up very fast but not very far. That is why it is possible for 14 year olds now to establish friendships with 26 year olds - because they know by the age of 14 all they are ever going to know. — Theodore Dalrymple
Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade. — Gelett Burgess
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
New friends can often have a better time together than old friends. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I'm 40 years old now and I have my friends from five years old up to 40, over 20 lifelong friends I have. And you can't keep that. You can't have that kind of friendship with people for 40 years from childhood friends if you're not an honorable person and if you're not a respectful person. And that's exactly what I am. — Tony Vlachos
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
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