Plenty of wine sayings & quotations

We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier.
~wine quotes by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

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I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man’s milk and restorative cordial
~famous quotes about Friends by Thomas Jefferson

Now is the time to get drunk! To stop being the martyred slaves of time, to get absolutely drunk – on wine, poetry, or on virtue, as you please.
~wine sayings by Charles Baudelaire, Enivrez-vous, Paris Spleen, 1869

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.
~wine sayings by Ludwig van Beethoven

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
~inspirational sayings about Solitude quotes by Colette

sayings about being yourself & quotations

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn’t. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let me label you as they may.
~inspirational sayings about Integrity quotes by Mark Twain

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God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
~being yourself quotes by William Shakespeare

Real friends are those who, when you feel you’ve made a fool of yourself, don’t feel you’ve done a permanent job
~famous quotes about April Fool’s Day by Author Unknown

Charm may in seven words be found: forget yourself and think of those around.
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The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.
~sayings about being yourself by Rita Mae Brown, Venus Envy

Friends and Friendship Quotes and Sayings

Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
–Elbert Hubard

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I get by with a little help from my friends.
–John Lennon

My friends are my estate.
–Emily Dickinson

“Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up. “
–Bible: Ecclesiastes

Tell me who’s your friend and I’ll tell you who you are.
Author: Russian Proverb

That is the best — to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
Author: Gloria Vanderbilt

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Author: Aristotle

The best mirror is an old friend.

Quotes & Sayings About Marriage

[10] the only permanent cure for love;
[11] is only compatible when the man makes a living and his wife makes living worthwhile;

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[12] the only adventure open to the cowardly;
[13] something which is called a feast – unfortunately, sometimes the appetizer is better than the main course;
[14] a group which consists of: a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two;
[15] the alliance of two people, one who never remembers birthdays, and the other who never forgets them;
[16] the process that turns a female from an attraction into a distraction;
[17] a legal custom which turns a man into the captive audience of his wife;
[18] that ceremony which makes more strange bedfellows than politics;
[19] a rite where two people, under the influence most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal and exhausting condition until death do them part;
[20] occurs where a man gets hooked by his own line;
[21] in America, is the only legal method of suppressing freedom of speech;
[22] is made out of two toothbrushes but a single tube of toothpaste;

Funny Christmas Quotes

Even as an adult I find it difficult to sleep on Christmas Eve.  Yuletide excitement is a potent caffeine, no matter your age.  ~Carrie Latet

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Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it.  Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it.  ~Richard Lamm

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!  ~Hamilton Wright Mabie

Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.  ~Author unknown, attributed to a 7-year-old named Bobby

Christmas is forever, not for just one day,
for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away
like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.
The good you do for others is good you do yourself…
~Norman Wesley Brooks, “Let Every Day Be Christmas,” 1976

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Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree.  In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.  ~Larry Wilde, The Merry Book of Christmas

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Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.  ~Washington Irving

Isn’t it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for – I don’t know what exactly, but it’s something that you don’t mind so much not having at other times.  ~Kate L. Bosher

Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish.  Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself.  ~Francis C. Farley

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There has been only one Christmas – the rest are anniversaries.  ~W.J. Cameron

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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer
The poor man’s heart through half the year.
~Walter Scott

Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.  ~Laura Ingalls Wilder

May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through!  ~Author Unknown

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.  ~Charles Dickens

Quotes about Being Yourself

The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity.  Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune.  ~Boris Pasternak

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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.  ~e.e. cummings

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep.  ~Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, 1750

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.  ~Homer

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.  ~Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel

“Be yourself” is about the worst advice you can give some people.  ~Tom Masson

Quotations about Happiness

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys.  If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.  ~Fyodor Dostoevsky

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What a wonderful life I’ve had!  I only wish I’d realized it sooner.  ~Colette

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.  ~James Openheim

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.  ~John Barrymore

“Well,” said Pooh, “what I like best,” and then he had to stop and think.  Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn’t know what it was called.  ~A.A. Milne

Quotations: Retirement

Retirement has been a discovery of beauty for me.  I never had the time before to notice the beauty of my grandkids, my wife, the tree outside my very own front door.  And, the beauty of time itself.  ~Hartman Jule

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O, blest retirement! friend to life’s decline -
How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these,
A youth of labor with an age of ease!
~Oliver Goldsmith

Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.  ~Author Unknown

Life begins at retirement.  ~Author Unknown

The challenge of retirement is how to spend time without spending money.  ~Author Unknown

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles.  ~Doug Larson