Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Bukowski

I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.

Ben Harper

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

Doris Lessing

...or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see.

Aesop

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

Dalai Lama

I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend [with dignity, with honor].

Dalai Lama

Treat each person as you would an old friend.

Robert A. Heinlein

Death is an old friend; I know him well. I lived with him, ate with him, slept with him; to meet him again does not frighten me death is as necessary as birth, as happy in its own way.

Seth Grahame-Smith

Abraham," he said. "I'm pleased to see you alive, old friend." "And I to see you dead.

Sinclair Lewis

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

Markus Zusak

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.

James Caan

Saving a letter from an old friend doesn't exist anymore. Everything is texted or emailed.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.

Erin Hunter

(He) felt lost and alone without his old friend, though he barely recognized him anymore. He wondered if they could ever be friends again.

George R. R. Martin

Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.

Jean Cocteau

How our old friend [Michelangelo] of the Sistine would have loved to photograph his workers, perched on the fragile planks. Dali was right to say Leonardo only worked from photographs.

Frederick Buechner

It’s less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart.

J. D. Salinger

I privately say to you, old friend... please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parentheses: (((()))).

Barry Manilow

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.

Ian Mckellen

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful.

Ian Ziering

To be with old friends is very warming and comforting,

Julian Casablancas

No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.

Kenny Rogers

You can't make old friends. You either have them or you don't.

Joni Mitchell

But now old friends are acting strange They shake their heads, they say I've changed Well something's lost, but something's gained In living every day

James Joyce

There's no friends like the old friends.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Louis C. K.

There's a woman I see who's not my therapist, but she's like an old friend who's a therapist in profession. She lets me talk to her like a therapist once in a while, and she does a great thing. Whenever I have a big dilemma, like this is a big problem in my life, she always says, 'Wow, you're going to have to figure that out.'

Lionel Blue

Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent.

William Shakespeare

New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don't forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems.

Robert Jordan

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.

William Hazlitt

When we forget old friends, it is a sign we have forgotten ourselves.