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Old Friends Quotes - Page 3

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

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

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

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

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 (2016). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.53, Sarah Orne Jewett

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

Robert Burton (1924). “The Anatomy of Melancholy ... in Three Partitions with Their Several Sections, Members & Subsections, Philosopically, Medicinally & Subsections, Philosopically, Medicinally, Historically Opened & Cut Up by Democritus Junior (Robert Burton) with a Satirical Pref. Conducing to the Following Discourse”

Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise.

Charles Kingsley (1831). “Hereward the Wake, "Last of the English".”, p.110

Keep your family and old friends around you. That's what I had done and that's what saved my life when it came to being famous.

"Barry Manilow on Anthony Weiner and the Trappings of Fame: 'I Know That Feeling'". Interview with Steve Baltin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 16, 2011.

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

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

... old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life.

Dorothy Gilman (2007). “Kaleidoscope”, p.96, Ballantine Books