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To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due. — Neil Gaiman

That night, we talked the way old friends do, with candor and ease. — Lang Leav

All that I want now is to live out my life in ease in a familiar world, to die in my own bed and be followed to the grave by old friends. — J.M. Coetzee

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends. — Mason Cooley

Friendship matters, especially in old age, when death reduces the number of one's friends. — Marilyn Yalom

It's an insane world but in it there is one sanity, the loyalty of old friends — Stephen Boyd

Sometimes I think of rebuilding my friendship with old friends. But at the same time, there's a reason why we fell off. Shit happens, but life's good. — Manasa Rao

The table like old friends (as a matter of fact they were brothers). — J.R.R. Tolkien

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch. — John Le Carre

Synonyms know each other like old colleagues, like a set of friends who've seen the world together. — Tahereh Mafi

Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee. — W.C. Fields

The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old. — Phillips Brooks

I have the highest respect for your nerves, they are my old friends. — Jane Austen

My old friend Jack Benny has only had one ball all his golfing life. And now he's lost it. The string came off! — Bob Hope

All my favorite stars, my family and my friends are here. I'm having the happiest birthday that an 18-year-old girl could ever have. — Brandy Norwood

Good friends walk in when the old ones walk out. — Helen Keller

Marriage creates one world for your child. For that alone, two old friends can try to see a peaceful world through the eyes of their angels. — Shannon L. Alder

I do not go to the reunions though because it make me feel old — Dr Jenan Alatrakchi By Aleksandr Orlov A Simples Life

Any man who is friends with a woman has taken the old imagination out for a stroll to Kissing Avenue, then Lovers Lane, then Fucking Street. — Lauren Blakely

How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends! — George Eliot

While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time. — John Edward Williams

That night I lay in bed and stared out the window. Night and I were old friends. — Laura Bickle

The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends. — William Faulkner

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Challenging is good, like good conversation, yes? Who wants to have dinner with the same old easy listening music sounding friends all the time? — Hilton Als

The thing is that it could never again feel natural to talk to her — John Green

I'm an old member of Greenpeace. I worried intensely, as I think most of my friends did, that the world was coming apart. — Bjorn Lomborg

Unknown Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold. — Muhammad Ali

Suicide is a behavioral contagion. It's old adage "If all your friends jumped off a bridge, then would you, too?" Apparently, the answer is yes. — Suzanne Young

She was at the same table near the back where three nights ago I'd sat entranced by her songs. And where the two of us had talked like old friends. — Mike Bond

Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what e gets if he loses both — Aesop

Never again do you find friends like the ones you have when you're fifteen years old. — Fredrik Backman

It's less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart. — Frederick Buechner

The recipe for a long, happy life:
consult with old philosophers and young doctors,
consort with old friends and young women. — Arthur C. Clarke

When my father was growing up inside the Old City of Jerusalem, he and his friends liked to trade desserts after diner. — Naomi Shibab Nye

At the time of death, life may end, but I will continue to live in this beautiful world among my beloved new and old friends. — Debasish Mridha

I found the evil in myself a long time ago, and I've accepted it. We're old friends. — Johnny Depp

The dynamics are pretty much the same among me and my friends as they were when I was 18 years old. — Danny McBride

We're stars, you know. Different, distant, young and old, but we're all made of the same stuff. We all shine just as bright as the next. — Dannika Dark

sixty years old and lives for the 3 f's--friends, family, and France. — Jamie Ivey

I like the old words better. They're like old friends. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

You know the old saying," said Nick. "Keep your friends close and your enemies dead and buried in the basement. — Mark Frost

And I was bitter. Bitterness and I were old friends by now, but at the moment bitterness was trying to go down my bra in public. — Jennifer Echols

The ball gave me prestige, gave me fame, gave me riches. Thank you, my old friend. — Alfredo Di Stefano

Old friends are like old clothes: they fit the best. — Ken Liu

In a Ramada Inn near the grapevine, they stop to rest for the night. Traveling down south, looking for good times. Visiting old friends feels right. — Neil Young

The older you get, the easier it is for you to distinguish between your friends and people you are not seeing for the first time. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet. — John Selden

One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends. — Rachel Field

Especially as I was an old friend, or at least I was a person she had known for a long time, which after a certain point is almost the same thing ... — Julian Fellowes

Among the worst things about growing old is the loss of those irreplaceable friends who added richness and depth to your life. — Pat Conroy

The women glare at each other. Grin. You have friends when you're fifteen years old. Sometimes you get them back. — Fredrik Backman

It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends. — Sinclair Lewis

And the only sign of life is the ticking of the pen, introducing characters to memory like old friends. — Fish

We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight. — P.G. Wodehouse

What find you better or more honourable than age? Take the preheminence of it in everything, in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree. — Shackerley Marmion

When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them. — Edvard Grieg

For a few moments in the evening, then, they talked quietly and casually, as if they were old friends or exhausted enemies. — John Edward Williams

I love to snuggle up on the sofa wrapped in my duvet watching old black and white films, and catching up with friends and family on the phone. — Martine McCutcheon

There's a Girl Scouts song I learned in elementary school: Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver, and the other gold. — Hillary Rodham Clinton

When death finally comes you will welcome it like an old friend, being aware of how dreamlike and impermanent the pheneomenal world really is. — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

responsive. She now realized that the old adage 'he who wants friends must show himself friendly' was right. — Brenda Barrett

I have a 13-year-old daughter who rents these bloody horror movies, and I can't even walk into the room when she's watching them with her friends. — Brad Dourif

I do have many of the same friends I grew up with. Most I've known since we were three or four years old! I have made new friends as well. — Bella Thorne

They walked as old friends walk, without often speaking, sharing the kind of silence that is not so much silence as a kind of still communication. — Susan Cooper

To the return of old friends and to an unexpected but most welcome new one. — Veronica Rossi

Old folks don't lie to their friends. They don't have the time. — P.S. Meronek

The meanest man in the world," he remarked, "is the man who forgets the old friends that helped him on an early day and over early difficulties. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

I've been involved in the sport since I was seven-years-old and I have learned so many things in life from it, such as making friends and discipline. — Jenny Meadows

Say what you want about aging,
it's still the only way to have old friends. — Robert Breault

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

When I was 5 years old, my best friends were Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen because we lived across the street from each other. — Troian Bellisario

The happiest adults are those who never buried old toys or abandoned imaginary friends. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The two of them just sort of clicked, like old friends who'd just met. Friends-at-first-sight, if there was such a thing. — Michael J. Sullivan

And like the old stereotype, I overcame my shyness by making my friends laugh. — Paul Merton

They talked in the shorthand of old friends and shared memories. — Dee Henderson

When you get old the worst thing is you lose so many friends. Burt Lancaster, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne. People who I loved to work with. — Kirk Douglas

When old friends reconnect, there is a refreshing newness, after great memories wash over you, the stage is set for so many more. — Tom Althouse

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old. — George Eliot

The new is older than the old;
And newest friend is oldest friend in this:
That, waiting him, we longest grieved to miss
One thing we sought. — Helen Hunt Jackson

Old friends are the bricks and mortar of your life. — Nora Roberts

Breezy days
deserve the union
of two old friends. — Sanober Khan

There's no friends like the old friends. — James Joyce

It's the worst part of seeing old friends: when your rose-colored memories become undone by reality. — Brad Meltzer

Old friends are the best friends. — John Cameron Smith

When I see friends from school I think they've all grown old and I've stayed the same. — Steve Coogan

Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. — Willa Cather

I'm the hardest working person I know. I'm 20 years old - is it a crime to want to go out dancing with my friends? — Lindsay Lohan

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

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned. — Judith Viorst

Some of the worst enemies of the man who is seeking for the truth will appeal to him as old friends in whom he has had great confidence. — Joseph French Johnson

The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them. — Norm MacDonald

The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with. — Sammy Davis Jr.

The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old. — Josh Billings

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