- Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- An old friend is like a saddled horse.~ Afghan Proverb
- An old friend met in a far country is like rain after drought.~ Chinese Proverb
- An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.~ Samuel Johnson
- Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend.~ Agatha Christie
- I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I love everything that’s old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines; and, I believe, Dorothy, you’ll own I have been pretty fond of an old wife.~ Oliver Goldsmith
- It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- It takes a long time to grow an old friend.~ John Leonard
- Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.~ Frank Gelett Burgess
- Old friends are always new.~ Italian Proverb
- Old friends are the great blessings of one’s later years. ~ Horace Walpole
- Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend — or a meaningful day.~ Dalai Lama
- Old truths, old laws, old friends, old books, and old wine are best.~ Polish Proverb
- Old wine and friends improve with age.~ Italian Proverb
- Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.~ Francis Bacon
- One’s oldest friend is the best.~ Titus Maccius Plautus
- One old friend is better than two new ones.~ Yiddish Proverb
- The most faithful mirror is an old friend. ~ Spanish Proverb
- There are no old friendships in business.~ Ukranian Proverb
- There is only one thing better than making a new friend, and that is keeping an old one.~ Elmer G. Letterman
- To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.~ Chinese Proverb
- To keep a new friend, never break with the old.~ Russian Proverb
- We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.~ Letty Cottin Pogrebin
- When you have read a book for the first time, you get to know a friend; read it for a second time and you meet an old friend.~ Chinese Proverb
- Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.~ Author Unknown
- 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
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