I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.
Interpretation
Friendship matures and deepens over time, much like wine that improves with age.
In this quote, Thomas Jefferson compares friendship to wine, suggesting that it begins as something raw and unrefined but grows richer and more rewarding with time. Just as quality wine develops its character and complexity through aging, true friendships flourish, providing comfort and rejuvenation as they endure life's challenges.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of relationships, one might say, 'As Thomas Jefferson wisely noted, friendship is like wine, ripening with age.'
The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them.
I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared
βWe must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.
Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance.
A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
Friends of my youth, a last adieu! haply some day we meet again; _x000D_ Yet ne'er the self-same men shall meet; the years shall make us other men.
Haec ego non multis (scribo), sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus. I am writing this not to many, but to you: certainly we are a great enough audience for each other.
And much more am I sorrier for my good knights' loss than for the loss of my fair queen; for queens I might have enough, but such a fellowship of good knights shall never be together in no company.
When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had not been born yet.
That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.
When I went to San Francisco in that cold late spring of 1967, I did not even know what I wanted to find out, and so I just stayed around a while and made a few friends.
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