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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

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

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.
~being yourself sayings by

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

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

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;

[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;

Quotes about Being Yourself

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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

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

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

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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

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

Job-Related Quotations

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don’t have a J.O.B. ~”Fats” Domino

Monday is a lame way to spend 1/7 of your life. ~Author Unknown

If you have a job without any aggravations, you don’t have a job. ~Malcolm S. Forbes

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward. ~George Jean Nathan

Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats. ~Howard Aiken

A Mission Statement is a dense slab of words that a large organization produces when it needs to establish that its workers are not just sitting around downloading Internet porn. ~Dave Barry

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. ~James Matthew Barrie

Random Life Quotes

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The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done.
~Author : Francis William Bourdillon Famous Quotes

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
~Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca Inspirational Sayings

Well done is better than well said.
~Author : Benjamin Franklin Nice Quotes

The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.
~Author : Robert Benchley Great Sayings

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Meaningful Sayings

The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.
~Author : W Somerset Maugham Wise Quotes

Random Famous Quotes

If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.
~Author : Montesquieu Wise Quotes

One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.
~Author : Diogenes Laertius Zeno Motivational Sayings

One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
~Author : Johann von Goethe Famous Quotes

Rod It’s a very personal, very important thing. Hell, it’s a family motto. Now are you ready Just checking to make sure you’re ready here it is – show me the money. OHHH SHOW ME THE MONEY Doesn’t it make you feel good just to say that, Jerry Say it with me one time brother
~Author : Jerry Maguire Inspirational Sayings

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky — or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
~Author : Carl Sandburg Nice Quotes

You don’t have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
~Author : John Ciardi Great Sayings

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