#old friends

And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#because #burn #dim #friends #lamps

Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#changes #constitutes #distasteful #friends #growing

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. ↗

— Athenaeus

#best #burn #drink #friends #old

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

#fights #friends #go #going #good

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors - old friends, family. ↗

— Dave Grohl

#became #could #during #easily #family

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

#enough #exactly #facebook #friends #job

I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#away #change #considerable #fighting #friends

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#afford #blessings #friends #old #old friends

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best. ↗

— John Webster

#friends #lay #like #old #old friends

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

#appears #authors #best #burn #drink