69 Old Friends Quotes
- There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
- Of oil, wine, and friends, the oldest is the best. – Portuguese Proverb
- Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what he gets if he loses both. – Aesop
- In forming new friendships, forget not old friends. – Roman Proverb
- Once a friend, always a friend. – Kurdish Proverb
- We must never sell old friends to buy old enemies. – Abraham Lincoln
- Old friends and old ways ought not to be disdained. – Danish Proverb
- You can’t make old friends. You either have them or you don’t. – Kenny Rogers
- It’s the worst part of seeing old friends: when your rose-colored memories become undone by reality. – Brad Meltzer
- Do not abandon old friends;, for new ones cannot equal them. A new friend is like new wine; when it has aged, you can drink it with pleasure. – Unknown
- It takes a long time to grow an old friend. – John Leonard
- Old friend at least one old friend. – Guy Clark
- Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable to him. A new friend is a new wine; when if is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure. – Bible
- Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful. – Cicero
- To be with old friends is very warming and comforting. – Ian Ziering
- There is only one thing better than making a new friend, and that is keeping an old one. – Elmer G. Letterman
- Spend a new penny on an old friend and share an old pleasure with a new friend. – Chinese Proverb
- Say what you want about aging, it’s still the only way to have old friends. – Robert Brault
- Old friends and old wine are best. – German Proverb
- Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend. – G.K. Chesterton
- A man’s growth is seen in the successsive choirs of his friends. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not. – Jonathan Swift
- It’s best to have an old friend far away, than a new friend nearby that makes you question your care. – Shanna Rodriguez
- 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
- You can make a new friend but you can’t make an old one. – Tom Bodett
- Condiments are like old friends, highly thought of, but often taken for granted. – Marilyn Kaytor
- With clothes the new are the best, with friends the old are the best. – Unknown
- Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade. – Gelett Burgess
- We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young. – Letty Cottin Pogrebin
- An old friend met in a far country is like rain after a drought. – Chinese Proverb
- There’s no friends like the old friends. – James Joyce
- Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best. – Duchess of Malfy
- In dress, the newest is the finest; in friends, the oldest is the best. – Korean Proverb
- No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed. – Julian Casablancas
- Old stories are like old friends? You have to visit them from time to time. – George R.R. Martin
- Beautiful memories are like old friends. They may not always be on your mind, but they are forever in your heart. – Susan Gale
- There’s not a word yet, for old friends who’ve just met. – Jim Henson
- Tell me, why are the old friends kind, And ever the tenderest, too? Youth has no art, but an open mind, And its love is sincere and true. – Edwin Leibfreed
- Exercise is like an old friend: You may not be able to see that friend all the time, but you’re not mad when you see them, you’re happy, and you get right back into it. – Bethenny Frankel
- When we forget old friends, it is a sign we have forgotten ourselves. – William Hazlitt
- New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don’t forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems. – William Shakespeare
- It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I keep my old friends, and get older with them, but push young. It’s good to be surrounded by kids, because they keep you young. – Carine Roitfeld
- One should not forsake old friends for new, because the old friends, having already proven their calibre, are more trustworthy. – G. Llewellyn Watson
- Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best. – John Webster
- My old friend, I recall the times we had hanging on my wall. I wouldn’t trade them for gold ‘cause they laugh and they cry me, somehow sanctify me. They’re woven in the stories I have told and tell again. – Tim McGraw
- Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses. – Robert Burton
- The best mirror is an old friend. – George Herbert
- 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
- There’s a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die—their silence. For a while an echo stays in your ear. You hear a laugh, a knowing phrase or two, a certain quality of enunciation. Then, nothing. Another death takes place—voices. – Ben Hecht
- When you meet with your old friends, you recollect some of the finest moments of your life and find yourself in a joy that has no comparison. – Syed Badiuzzaman
- It’s an insane world but in it there is one sanity, the loyalty of old friends. – Ben Hur
- 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
- We need new friends; some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact an ideal version of their lives. – Logan Pearsall Smith
- Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends. – H. Jackson Brown
- One old friend is better than two new ones. – Yiddish Proverb
- Make new friends, but don’t forget the old, One is silver, the other is gold. – Unknown
- Old friends die on you, and they’re irreplaceable. You become dependent. – Lionel Blue
- It’s not good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of peple, and the only thing is to face it. – W. Somerset Maughan
- An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost. – Samuel Johnson
- 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 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
- When old friends get together, everything else fades to insignificance. – Robert Lynn Aspri
- Old friends are best. – John Selden
- Old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air; love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were. – Samuel Coleridge Taylor
- It’s less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart. – Frederick Buechner
- Finding an old friend is like finding a lost treasure. – Anthony Douglas Williams
- To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again. – Ricky Nelson