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From wine what sudden friendship springs. ...
by John Gay

From wine what sudden friendship springs.
- John Gay

Related topics: Funny Friendship Relationship

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)

A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard

It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich

A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer

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

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

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

Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw

Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

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

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington

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

I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison

Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington

Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva

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

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

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

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates

Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen

Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron

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)

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

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

Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller

Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation

Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle

In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee

Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb

The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius

There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles

Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long.
If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran

Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin

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