"Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world."
John Evelyn

200 FAMOUS QUOTES · SAINT PATRICK'S DAY
Best Saint Patrick's Day quotes from Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, Seamus Heaney and JFK: 200 lines on Irish luck, wit, heritage and friendship.
"Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world."
John Evelyn
"Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold."
Joseph Parry
"Rainbows apologize for angry skies."
Sylvia Voirol
"I was like a stone lying in the deep mud, and he that is mighty came and in his mercy raised me up."
Saint Patrick
"Dance is the hidden language of the soul."
Martha Graham
"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."
Victor Hugo
"He who laughs, lasts."
Mary Pettibone Poole
"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you."
John Bunyan
"The saints are the sinners who keep on going."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"Saints are what they are, not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others, but because the gift of sainthood makes it possible for them to admire everybody else."
Thomas Merton
"Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals."
Oliver Goldsmith
"Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old."
Jonathan Swift
"No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be."
Bram Stoker
"Love loves to love love."
James Joyce
"I write to discover what I know."
Flannery O'Connor
"Happiness hates the timid!"
Eugene O'Neill
"After all, tomorrow is another day!"
Margaret Mitchell
"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way – things I had no words for."
Georgia O'Keeffe
"Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls."
Mother Teresa
"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor."
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire."
Gustav Mahler
"Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell."
Louisa May Alcott
"May you awaken to the mystery of being here and enter the quiet immensity of your own presence."
John O'Donohue