Tenzin Gyatso (1935) spiritual leader of Tibet
As quoted in "Tibet's Living Buddha" by Pico Iyer, p. 32.
The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness (1990)
“There's no friends like the old friends.”
— James Joyce, book Dubliners
Source: Dubliners
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Kessinger Publishing (2005).
Misattributed
“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”
Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar
Source: The Bell Jar
Alexander McCall Smith (1948) British writer
The Unbearable Lightness of Scones, chapter 8.
The 44 Scotland Street series
“I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.”
Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell
Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell
“This is so personal it makes Chris Eubank look like an old friend of mine by comparison.”
Nigel Benn (1964) British boxer
Nigel Benn compares his rivalry http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/story/0,,1010013,00.html#article_continue
“New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter
Source: Tender is the Night
Jesse Owens (1913–1980) American track and field athlete
Reported response to learning that his last remaining world record had been broken (31 December 1960); as quoted in Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations (1988) compiled by James B. Simpson
1960s
