“Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.”

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American poet 1807–1882

Jin Shengtan (1610–1661) Chinese writer

"Thirty-three Happy Moments"

“Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.”

Rainer Maria Rilke book The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

Source: The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

“136. Old wine and an old friend are good provisions.”

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“No man can feel himself alone
The while he bravely stands
Between the best friends ever known
His two good, honest hands.”

Nixon Waterman (1859–1944) American writer

Interludes, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Ah good, there's so many over there you feel they breed them just to put in orphanages.”

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921) member of the British Royal Family, consort to Queen Elizabeth II

Said while presenting a Duke of Edinburgh Award to a student. When informed that the young man was going to help out in Romania for six months, he asked if the student was going to help the Romanian orphans and was told that he was not, as quoted in "Duke under fire for Romanian orphans 'joke'" http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=255&id=998522006 in The Scotsman (8 July 2006) <br class="br">2000s

“You are getting too old for this." "A man is as old as he feels, woman!" "And how old do you feel?”

David Gemmell book The King Beyond the Gate

"About ninety."
Source: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 15