Sharing our depressions felt like having survived a war. The experience bonds you to the other person for life.
Art BuchwaldRead
Food is the great connector, and laughs are the cement. If we go out to eat and have a nice meal, that's one thing. If we can share a laugh, now we're friends.
Interpretation
Food and laughter foster connections between people.
This quote emphasizes the importance of sharing meals and laughter as fundamental elements in building friendships. While enjoying good food can bring people together, it is the shared experiences of humor and joy that truly deepen relationships and solidify the bonds of friendship.
In practice
During a family gathering, I might say this quote to highlight the joy of sharing meals together.
Sharing our depressions felt like having survived a war. The experience bonds you to the other person for life.
We live in a world of easy friendships - people here for you when it's easy, 'so-sorry-but-I-have-an-errand-to-do-now' when it's not.
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
I know divers, and divers men know me, which love me as I do them: yet if I should pray them, when I meet them in the street openly, they would abhor me; but if I pray them where they be appointed to meet me secretly, they will hear me and accept my request.
Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.
Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
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