Old Friends Quotes - Page 3
Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.
Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”
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
There's one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die - their silence.
Wilson Rawls (2011). “Where the Red Fern Grows”, p.235, Laurel Leaf
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”
Johnny Cash (1975). “MAN IN BLACK”
Charles Kingsley (1831). “Hereward the Wake, "Last of the English".”, p.110
William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers”, p.285
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
William Banting (1864). “Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public”, p.12
Are you looking for gold, friend? Look around you; anything useful to you is pure gold, pure silver!
Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”