“There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.”

“The stranger is simply a friend I haven't met yet.”

Catherine Doherty (1896–1985) Religious order founder; Servant of God

“I think of you as a friend. I used to think "friend" was just another word… Nothing more, nothing less. But when I met you, I realized what was important was the word's meaning.”

Masashi Kishimoto book Naruto

“There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.”

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright

“There are no strangers in here, just friends you haven't met…”

Roald Dahl (1916–1990) British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot and screenwriter

“I sometimes think that ‘friend’ is just a word I use for all the people I haven't murdered yet.”

Scott Lynch (1978) American writer

“They met with cold words, and yet colder looks:
Each was changed in himself, and yet each thought
The other only changed, himself the same.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist

“What sweeter than this in the world!
Friend met friend and the lover joined his Beloved.
That was all sorrow, this is all joy
Those were all words, this is all reality.”

Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr (967–1049) poet

“Young. Old. Just Words.”

George Burns (1896–1996) American comedian, actor, and writer

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

Frederick Buechner book Godric