Circumstances Quote by Richard Whately

“Old friends cannot be created out of hand. Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

A tree, young or old, if admired, remains a definite vision, and when after long absence it is visited again, the meeting place is…

— Charles Eley

A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.

— James Russell Lowell

I like old people, just as I like old trees: in their shadow there is freshness and peace, one admires them, and around them…

— Svetlana Alliluyeva

To those who have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated, some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel or some…

— Samuel Johnson

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.

— Thomas Jefferson

The soil of friendship is worn out with constant use. Habit may still attach us to each other, but we feel ourselves fettered by…

— William Hazlitt

“Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.”

— Francis Bacon

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A wound in the friendship of young persons, as in the bark of young trees, may be so grown over as to leave no…

— William Shenstone

The great renunciation of old age as it prepared for death, wraps itself up in its chrysalis, which may be observed at the end…

— Marcel Proust

Of all intellectual friendships, none are so beautiful as those which subsist between old and ripe men and their younger brethren in science or…

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton