240+ Old Friends Quotes and Sayings about Meeting Old Friends
Old Friends Quotes
“There’s not a word yet, for old friends who’ve just met.” ―Jim Henson
“With clothes the new are the best, with friends the old are the best.” ―Unknown
“When we forget old friends, it is a sign we have forgotten ourselves.” ―William Hazlitt
“Make new friends, but don’t forget the old, One is silver, the other is gold.” ―Unknown
“Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.” ―John Webster
“An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.”
“It’s an insane world but in it there is one sanity, the loyalty of old friends.” ―Ben Hur
“Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what he gets if he loses both.” ―Aesop
“There is only one thing better than making a new friend, and that is keeping an old one.” ―Elmer G. Letterman
“It’s best to have an old friend far away, than a new friend nearby that makes you question your care.” ―Shanna Rodriguez
“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 Shakespea
“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
“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
“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
Meeting Old Friends Quotes
“Happiness is meeting up with old friends after a long time apart.”
“You meet a friend – your face brightens. You have struck gold.” ―Kassia
“It’s nice when you meet up with old friends and see how much you’ve both grown.”
“Everyone you meet knows something you don’t know but need to know. Learn from them.” —C.G. Jung
“Be genuinely interested in everyone you meet and everyone you meet will be genuinely interested in you.” —Rasheed Ogunlaru
“The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to – look the other way.” ―Ugo Betti
“Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.” ―Richard Bach
“These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It’s like meeting old friends. I hope readers feel the same way.” ―Jonathan Kellerman
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” ―Anais Nin
“Don’t be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.” ―Richard Bach
“For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon.” ―Robert Jordan
“The thing I have really enjoyed lately is to realize I know people, and good people everywhere. What I enjoy is meeting people, staying at their places, discover a city that way. And I found out this can be done because there is always a potential friend anywhere. I have the luck to have old friends who stay friends for eternity. They are my stable basis, my territory.” ―Gaspar Claus
“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
Missing Old Friends Quotes
“Missing my old friends…wish we never grew apart…” ―Unknown
“Missing old friends but love my new ones.” ―Unknown
“I always end up missing old friends and that feeling sucks.” ―Unknown
“Nothing hurts as much as missing someone that doesn’t miss you.” ―Anurag Prakash Ray
“Missing old friends? More like I’m missing having friends. Times changed too much.” ―Unknown
“People don’t miss you when you’re gone. The miss you when you’re doing better.” ―Unknown
“Missing my old friends. Why is it always miserable when it comes to separation…” ―Unknown
“People always miss you more when they see how much happier you are without them.” ―Unknown
“It is impossible not to miss someone who was once a part of your life.” ―Unknown
“It’s nice bumping into old friends, but the feeling of missing out on their lives…awful.” ―Unknown
“Yea I be missing my old friends but I know we all could never be again.” ―Unknown
“Tears don’t come when you miss a person, but they come when you don’t want to miss a person.” ―Unknown
“Reminiscing and missing the old day right now, missing all my old friends and the times we spent together!” ―Unknown
“The danger of being alone is that you badly miss those people who had been the reason for your smiles.” ―Unknown
“I feel like missing old friends that probably dont remember you is pointless, but I let myself do it anyway.” ―Unknown
“Entry of new persons may change your lifestyle and make you happy, but those persons will never replace the missed ones.” ―Unknown
“We grow up only to see that people who once had our best interests in mind need our best interests now.” ―Kevin Mccarty
“One of the best feelings is going out and accomplishing something. The worst part is losing somebody that was with you through the process.” ―Unknown
“The saddest thing about burning a bridge is realizing that you can never get back to the beautiful place it used to take you.” ―Unknown
“The pain is not on the day of missing our dear ones. The pain is really when you live without them and with their presence in your mind.” ―Unknown
“Missing someone is hard, but having them standing next to you and not being able to find the words to tell them how much you’ve missed them is torture.” ―Abhishek Tiwari
“It’s been a long day without my friend and I’ll tell you all about it when I see you again. We’ve come a long way from where we begain and I’ll tell you all about it when I see you again!” ―Wiz Khalifa
“It’s amazing the things you realize when you lose someone: you get mad at yourself for not saying the things you could’ve a million times, you take for granted the days spent doing nothing when you could have been with them. Anyone can be taken, at any time in our lives, but we always wait until they’re gone to say the things we never had the courage to before.” ―Cherrymae Esdrelon
“I miss all of my old friends who have passed away. Sometimes you just don’t understand why they were taken so soon. I loved and miss Johnny Cash. I miss my old buddy Johnny Paycheck, who happens to be buried in an area of the cemetery that I bought for my family.” ―George Jones
Reconnecting With Old Friends Quotes
“Friends are born, not made.” ―Unknown
“I asked for happiness and god gave my friend.” ―Unknown
“Breezy days deserves the union of two old friends.” ―Sanober Khan
“People come, and people go. The best ones will stay.” ―Unknown
“Best friends are the siblings god forgot to give us.” ―Unknown
“Friends are the most important ingredient in the recipe of life.” ―Unknown
“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.” ―Unknown
“Only those who care about you can hear you when you’re quiet.” ―Unknown
“Friends, Sun, Sand and Sea that sounds like a summer to me.” ―Unknown
“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.” ―G. Randolf
“Happiness is meeting an old friend after a long time and feeling that nothing has changed.” ―Cris Dar
“Old stories are like old friends. You have to visit them from time to time.” ―George R.R Martin
“Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side.” ―Ally Condie
“Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.” ―Deepak Chopra
“Recall your old friends as often as you could, a happy memory about old friends never fades out.” ―L. Fudim
“If you’re old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Facebook exactly as advertised, you look up old friends.” ―Jaron Lanier
“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
“Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.” ―Francis Bacon
“A good friend is a connection to life ― a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.” ―Lois Wyse
“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.” ―Albert Schweitzer
“Reunions are the first day of school all over again. Time casts away familiarity and replaces it with warm confusion. Seeing how the years have frayed the friends of our youth reminds us that we too have irrevocably changed and can never return to a state of innocence again.” ―Stewart Stafford
Funny Old Friends Quotes
“Love is blind. Friendship closes its eyes.” ―Friedrich Nietzsche
“It takes a long time to grow an old friend.” ―John Leonard
“True friends don’t judge each other, they judge other people together.” Emilie Saint-Genis
“We’ll be friends ’til we’re old and senile… Then we’ll be new friends!” ―Unknown
“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.” ―Sylvia Plath
“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”― Charles Lamb
“I think we’ll be friends forever because we’re too lazy to find new friends.” – Unknown
“An old friend will help you move. A good friend will help you move a dead body.” ―Jim Hayes
“Some people only get called by their nicknames. Usually, it sounds weird to even say their real name.” ―Kishore
“We’ve been friends for so long I can’t remember which one of us is the bad influence.” – Unknown
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” ―Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Friends come and go, like the waves of the ocean, but the true ones stay, like an octopus on your face.” – Unknown
“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” ―Bernard Meltzer
“You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.” ―Laurence J. Peter
“The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.” ―Mark Twain
Meeting Old School Friends Quotes
“Our friendship is..awesome.” ―Unknown
“A friend is a second self.” ―Unknown
“Friends make you laugh till your cheeks hurt.” ―Unknown
“Friends make the world beautiful. Thanks for being mine.” ―Unknown
“Of oil, wine, and friends, the oldest is the best.” ―Portuguese Proverb
“If you have crazy friends you have everything you’ll ever need.” ―Unknown
“You make me laugh even when I don’t want to smile.” ―Unknown
“Do you even remember what we had shared together, my old friend?” ―Unknown
“Best friends are hard to find because the very best one is already mine.” ―Unknown
“Nothing compares to the stomach ache you get from laughing with your best friends.” ―Unknown
“In dress, the newest is the finest; in friends, the oldest is the best.” ―Korean Proverb
“You’re one of those people who make my life better just by being in it.” ―Unknown
“You may forget and replace me, but I will be your always the same old friend.” ―Unknown
“Because of you, I laugh a little harder, cry a little less and smile a lot more.” ―Unknown
“I used to love the company of silence and loneliness then I realized that I had you all along.” ―Unknown
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” ―Unknown
“Friendship is not about whom you are going to spent most of your time is, but it is about to whom you have the best times with.” ―Unknown
Quotes On Meeting Old Friends After A Long Time
“I’m glad we’re friends.” ―Unknown
“Friendship needs no words.” ―Unknown
“We all have that one friend….” ―Unknown
“That one friend you can tell anything?” ―Unknown
“I love that we hate the same things.” ―Unknown
“A friend like you is a wonderful gift.” ―Unknown
“You need one good friend for your life.” ―Unknown
“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.” ―Unknown
“Thanks for always being everything a friend should be.” ―Unknown
“In a friendship, great starts will always end well.” ―Unknown
“A friend like you, is a joy to be celebrated.” ―Unknown
“Appreciate of what you have now before it turns to what you had.” ―Unknown
“I will never forget your voice even when your face turns into something unrecognizable.” ―Unknown
“I hope you’re my friend forever – because that’s how long I’m gonna need you.” ―Unknown
“When I first met you, I honestly didn’t know you were gonna be this important to me?” ―Unknown
“Let the whole world go to dust and let the metals go to rust but our friendship will survive.” ―Unknown
“If we recall every single lie we told to our parents about our whereabouts, we will be great story tellers.” ―Unknown
“It sucks to be apart but I believe this is just a test of time for the two of us, old friends.” ―Unknown
“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.” ―Unknown
Reuniting With Old Friends Quotes
“Friends make life memorable.” ―Unknown
“Friendship is pure happiness.” ―Unknown
“True friendship knows no bounds.” ―Unknown
“FRIENDSHIP is being each other’s therapists.” ―Unknown
“Best friends are connected heart 2 heart.” ―Unknown
“I’m much more me when I’m with my friends.” ―Unknown
“The best cure for a bad day is a good friend.” ―Unknown
“It’s the friends we meet along the way that help us appreciate the journey.” ―Unknown
“I appreciate the ones who are there at all times, not just when it’s convenient.” ―Unknown
“Expect more dramas when you and your old friend finally meet after a long time.” ―Unknown
“Say what you want about aging, it’s still the only way to have old friends.” ―Robert Brault
“Don’t be afraid on goodbyes because sometimes it is part of your life just accept the fact that friends come and go.” ―Unknown
“Seeing your old friend feels like seeing your celebrity crush in personal; you can’t prevent yourself from screaming and hugging him tightly.” ―Unknown
“Beautiful memories are like old friends. They may not always be on your mind, but they are forever in your heart.” ―Susan Gale
“What I am looking forward to any celebrations in my life? Is that I could be able to see my old friends again.” ―Unknown
“When everything falls out in a wrong place for a friend, don’t hesitate to offer help because helping a friend is very fulfilling.” ―Unknown
Talking To Old Friends Quotes
“Missing my old friends and how we used to talk all the time…Now I talk too absolutely nobody.” ―Unknown
“It’s crazy how you can go months or years without talking to someone but they still cross your mind everyday.” ―Unknown
“Ever find yourself sometimes missing your old friends who you don’t even talk to or have any type of contact with anymore?” ―Unknown
“While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time.” ―John Williams
“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
“Biking through New York’s boroughs in 2005, I thought about some old friends, Joe and Eileen Bailey. Though they are imaginary, I frequently talk to them.” ―Charles Schumer
“Missing someone isn’t about how long it has been since you’ve seen them or the amount of time since you’ve talked. It’s about that very moment when you’re doing something and wishing they were right there with you.” ―Unknown
“Throughout life you will meet one person who is like no other. You could talk to this person for hours and never get bored, you could tell this person things and they will never judge you. This person is your soulmate, your best friend. Don’t ever let them go.” —Unknown
Good Old Friends Quotes
“Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.” ―H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“It’s the worst part of seeing old friends: when your rose-colored memories become undone by reality.” ―Brad Meltzer
“The wind taught me never to forget old friends, by blowing them back to me.” ―Michael Bassey Johnson
“An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.” ―Samuel Johnson
“We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.” ―Letty Cottin Pogrebin
“Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it’s like they didn’t fade away at all.” ―Bob Dylan
“One should not forsake old friends for new, because the old friends, having already proven their calibre, are more trustworthy.” ―G. Llewellyn Watson
“There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.” ―Henry Ford
“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
“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
“It’s always hard when you’ve known a person a long time and then you have to recognise that you have nothing left in common but your memories.” ―Eva Heller
“Old friends become more and more precious to us as the years pass. They can look at us for who we once were and who we are now, appreciating the difficulties we have overcome, the abilities we have acquired, and the ways we have stayed true to ourselves.” ―Wendy Lustbader
Friendship Day Quotes For Old Friends
“Friendship multiplies the good of life.” ―Unknown
“The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.” ―Unknown
“Friendship is the golden thread that ties all hearts together.” ―Unknown
“Friendship is a horizon – Which expands whenever we approach it.” ―Unknown
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.” ―Unknown
“As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.” ―Cicero
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. … It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” ―C. S. Lewis
“A daily thought, a silent tear, a constant wish that you were here. Words are few but thoughts are deep. Memories of our friendship I will always keep.” ―Unknown
Short Quotes about Old Friends
“Old friends are best.” ―John Selden
“Old friends are memories personified.” ―Richard Paul Evans
“The best mirror is an old friend.” ―Venugopal Acharya
“The best mirror is an old friend.” ―George Herbert
“There’s no friends like the old friends.” ―James Joyce
“We grow too old to lose old friends …” ―Beth Kephart
“Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.” ―Hafez
“Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise.” ―Charles Kingsley
“To be with old friends is very warming and comforting.” ―Ian Ziering
“No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.” ―Julian Casablancas
“Failure can get to be a rather comfortable old friend.” ―Mignon McLaughlin
“Finding an old friend is like finding a lost treasure.” ―Anthony D. Williams
“You were worth it, old friend, and a thousand times over.” ―Wilson Rawls
“When I go out with my 16-year-old friends, I don’t wear Chanel.” ―Bridget Hall
“Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.” ―Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“You can’t make old friends. You either have them or you don’t.” ―Kenny Rogers
“No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend.” ―Mikhail Lermontov
“A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.” ―B. B. King
Old Friends Quotes and Sayings
“Welcome, my old friend, welcome to a foreign fireside.” ―Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Old friends die on you, and they’re irreplaceable. You become dependent.” ―Lionel Blue
“Books were like old friends, with their worn covers and well-thumbed pages.” ―Naomi Ragen
“How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!– George Eliot
“Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.” ―Robert Burton
“Condiments are like old friends – highly thought of, but often taken for granted.” ―Marilyn Kaytor
“I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.” ―Charles Bukowski
“Some possessions are like old friends, and you never want to abandon an old friend.” ―Nina Campbell
“When old friends get together, everything else fades to insignificance.”- War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death.” ―Robert Asprin
“Say what you want about aging, it’s still the only way to have old friends.” ―Robert Breault
“There’s one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die – their silence.” ―Ben Hecht
“Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.” ―Gelett Burgess
“Abraham,” he said. “I’m pleased to see you alive, old friend.” “And I to see you dead.” ―Seth Grahame-Smith
“The ball gave me prestige, gave me fame, and gave me riches. Thank you, my old friend.” ―Alfredo Di Stefano
“I privately say to you, old friend… please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parentheses: (((()))).” ―J. D. Salinger
“Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.” ―Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“How enriched life is by friends! Good friends, new friends, old friends, feathered friends, feline friends, friends of friends…” ―Laurel Burch
“It takes a long time to grow an old friend. Trust is built one single moment at a time.” ―Nicholas Sparks
“One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.” ―Rachel Field
“Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.” ―George R. R. Martin
“Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend… they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful.” ―Ian Mckellen
“My dear old friend King George V told me he would never have died but for that vile doctor, Lord Dawson of Penn.” ―Margot Asquith
“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
“Peter is an old friend. I’m heartbroken, but he’s also a tough guy. I’m counting on him getting through this very difficult passage.” ―Tom Brokaw
“Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.” ―Bernard Baruch
“(He) felt lost and alone without his old friend, though he barely recognized him anymore. He wondered if they could ever be friends again.” ―Erin Hunter
“It’s fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us discover new people as well.” ―Ethan Zuckerman
“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
“Old friend,’ said Cadvan, filling another glass for himself and sniffing its rich smell.’ If we do not trust one another, we are already defeated.” ―Alison Croggon
“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
“Tell me, if you can, of anything that’s finer than an evening in camp with a rare old friend and a dog after one’s heart.” ―Nash Buckingham
“What find you better or more honorable than age? Take the preeminence of it in everything, in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree.” ―Shackerley Marmion
“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
“So many of my friends, old friends I haven’t seen in years, made their way out there and got lost, then found their way back. That seems believable to me.” ―Robert Carlyle
“The life of a model isn’t easy. But I try to keep a good head on my shoulders by staying close to my family and old friends. They’re my support system.” ―Constance Jablonski
“Change to me is like an old friend. It’s not my enemy anymore. And I know it will keep coming back to visit again and again to teach me something new.” ―Phyllis George
“You won’t now tell people you’re in your 60′s indeed, you’ll have to pretend, no end that you’re close to being 70 let me be the first to agree, old friend– John Walter Bratton
“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 the ideal version of their lives.” ―Logan Pearsall Smith
“I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life, and partly to have the sense of returning to an old friend.” ―Elizabeth Strout
“The only good thing about going to the fights is you can go into the green room and you can see some of your old friends that you haven’t seen in a long time.” ―Robert Goulet
“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
“I have many, many old friends, and I always think that its important, when you get into politics, to have friends you had before you were in politics and to understand whats on their minds.” ―Hillary Clinton
“It is true I gained muscular vigor, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise.” ―William Banting
“In this play we’re dealing with relative truths – who’s lying, who’s telling the truth. But underneath that, Ed and I have hit this deeper level of intimacy between old friends that comes out in the play.” ―Fred Ward
“Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live; yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old friend, let not your heart be silent on the dissolving of a faith.” ―James Anthony Froude
“I went out with some old friends and we were having fun. A couple of them were very intoxicated. When I went to leave, I refused to let them drive. So when I got pulled over, I was the driver.” ―Rima Fakih
“About 70 percent of the district was new. It was a short amount of time to get to know hundreds and thousands of people. But with the help and support of old friends, we built a grassroots operation organically from the ground up.” ―Adam Kinzinger
“What started as a whisper slowly turned into a scream searching for an answer where the question is unseen I don’t know where you came from And I don’t know where you’ve gone Old friends become old strangers between the darkness and the dawn.” ―Ben Harper
“It’s not so much that the old friend is a better friend. It’s just that you know the person better, and you know they don’t really care if you’re acting like a poor, grovelling idiot. They know you would do the same for them.” ―Markus Zusak
“The thing is, when you see your old friends, you come face to face with yourself. I run into someone I’ve known for 40 or 50 years, and they’re old. And I suddenly realize I’m old. It comes as an enormous shock to me.” ―Polly Bergen
“These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I’m washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles. The ones that you sing when you’re driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.” ―Al Jarreau
“Old friends, like old shoes, are comfortable. But old shoes, unlike old friends, tend not to be supportive: it is easier to stumble and sprain an ankle while wearing a pair of old shoes than it is in new shoes, with their less yielding leather.” ―Alexander McCall Smith
“So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o’clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned. – Sherlock Holmes.” ―Arthur Conan Doyle
“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 I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm. Old coats and old friends are the same thing.” ―Victor Hugo
“I kept saying that I’d never live in L.A., and I didn’t think I would. But that’s where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you’re famous, it’s hard to live in a small town.” ―John Cusack
“Friar Hugo, old friend, brace yourself. I am the bearer of tragic news!” Alarm spread across Hugo’s pudgy features. “Tell me, Jess. What dreadful thing has happened?” Jess spoke haltingly in a broken voice. “I fear that Cluny has tore up one of your oldest and most venerable dishrags. Alas, Redwall will never see it wipe another plate.” ―Brian Jacques
“You always fed strays and bent down to talk to the dogs you met on the street, looking straight into their eyes as if they were old friends. (Maybe they are, you said. From another life.) You liked to go to the pound and look at them. You tried to send them messages of comfort. I couldn’t go because I started crying the one time I tried. All those eyes and the barks like sobs.” ―Francesca Lia Block
“After the last shovel of dirt was patted in place, I sat down and let my mind drift back through the years. I thought of the old K. C. Baking Powder can, and the first time I saw my pups in the box at the depot. I thought of the fifty dollars, the nickels and dimes, and the fishermen and blackberry patches. I looked at his grave and, with tears in my eyes, I voiced these words: “You were worth it, old friend, and a thousand times over.” ―Wilson Rawls