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From wine what sudden friendship springs.
- John Gay
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A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness -
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.
- Omar Khayyam
Spirit is always waiting to rush into us,
but we are too full of worldly things.
It is like trying to pour fine wine into a cup filled with mud -
the wine is waiting, but the mud must be removed first.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and you.
- Omar Khayyam
(paraphrase)
The wine of youth does not always
clear with advancing years;
sometimes it grows turbid.
- Carl Jung
Let us celebrate the occasion
with wine and sweet words.
- Plautus
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and,
like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year
and of the season of which we are born.
Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
- Carl Jung
Go ahead, make my day.
- the movie Sudden Impact (1983)
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
There comes that mysterious meeting in life
when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be,
igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
- Rusty Berkus
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
May love and laughter light your days,
and warm your heart and home.
May good and faithful friends be yours,
wherever you may roam.
May peace and plenty bless your world
with joy that long endures.
May all life's passing seasons
bring the best to you and yours.
- Irish Blessing
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love our friend for their sakes
rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
Friendship that flows from the heart
cannot be frozen by adversity,
as the water that flows from the spring
cannot congeal in winter.
- James Fenimore Cooper
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
- Anonymous (attributed to Bill Wilson, Brandi Snyder and others)
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship
of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
- Robert Southey
There's a big difference between a handout and a helping hand.
One's charity, the other's friendship.
- Little Joe' Cartwright in Bonanza - Rain from Heaven
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If you talk to a man in a language he understands,
that goes to his head.
If you talk to him in his language,
that goes to his heart.
- Nelson Mandela
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother
Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman
It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
A part of you has grown in me.
And so you see, it's you and me
together forever and never apart,
maybe in distance, but never in heart.
- Anonymous
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together...
there is something you must always remember.
You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem,
and smarter than you think.
But the most important thing is, even if we're apart...
I'll always be with you.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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