Quotes on Old Friendship

How evanescent those loves and friendships seem at this distance in time…We move on, make new attachments. We grow old. But sometimes, we hanker for old friendships, the old loves. Sometimes I wish I was young again. Or that I could travel back in time and pick up the threads. Absent so long, I may have stopped loving you, friends; but I will never stop loving the Day I loved you.

I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me. I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be; I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way.

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.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.