Joseph Parry Quotes

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold.

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

My dad said to me growing up: 'When all is said and done, if you can count all your true friends on one hand, you're a lucky man.'

It is always good to make new friends.

Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.

A friend is more to be longed for than the light; I speak of a genuine one. And wonder not: for it were better for us that the sun should be extinguished, than that we should be deprived of friends; better to live in darkness, than to be without friends

It was better to be in chains with friends than in a garden with strangers. [An ancient Persian proverb.] So true, huh?

Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise.

God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.

I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.

You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.

Men come and go - God knows they certainly have in my life - but girlfriends are for ever. I have a lot of girlfriends but only a few very, very close ones.

I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

I do have many of the same friends I grew up with. Most I've known since we were three or four years old! I have made new friends as well.

Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.

Whether it's golf or writing, you have friends, and then you have 'friends' friends. Friends who are like family. I can count my close friends on two hands, which is good, I think. That's a lot. Some are at home in Spain, others are elsewhere, and some are in golf.

Kids are like glue: they can bond together, unlikely companions, even when there is little else left to maintain the connection.

I've stayed good friends with most of my girlfriends.

You can never have too many friends.

Your wealth is where your friends are.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

What I've realized over the years is that I have some pretty good friends.

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.