Old friends are gold! New friends are diamonds! If you get diamonds don’t forget gold because only gold can hold a diamond.
A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can’t make old friends. — Christopher Hitchens
We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight. — P. G. Wodehouse
It’s less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart. — Frederick Buechner
I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. — Oliver Goldsmith