Friendship

“Loyalty is the chair that is still there when the room gets difficult.”

— ToastBuddy original

“Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind?”

— Robert Burns, Auld Lang Syne

“A long friendship becomes a language: half memory, half shorthand, completely understood.”

— ToastBuddy original

“Friendship is not measured by the biggest day; it is built in the ordinary ones someone keeps showing up for.”

— ToastBuddy original

“Some people enter a room and make it lighter; others teach everyone else how to carry the light.”

— ToastBuddy original

“When the news got harder to hear, you asked what time to come over.”

— ToastBuddy original

“You are in the background of so many good memories that I sometimes forget to thank you for helping make them.”

— ToastBuddy original

“The plan went wrong; the story got better because you were there.”

— ToastBuddy original

“Even in your busiest years, there was room in your day for my news.”

— ToastBuddy original

“We became friends before either of us had much to offer except an afternoon.”

— ToastBuddy original

“I look forward to the stories our future selves will get to tell about us.”

— ToastBuddy original

“We have reached the stage of friendship where the instructions are mostly consulted after assembly.”

— ToastBuddy original

“Looking around this room, I can see your years in the friendships that have lasted through them.”

— ToastBuddy original

“This gathering began with people who said hello and then bothered to say it again.”

— ToastBuddy original

“Sometimes hope sounds like someone asking you to save a date.”

— ToastBuddy original

“Your smile arrived before the story was finished, because you already knew the part we loved.”

— ToastBuddy original