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Meeting: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

As two floating planks meet and part on the sea, O friend! so I met and then drifted from thee.— WM. R. ALGER — Oriental Poetry. The

Brief Chance Encounter. We met-'twas in a crowd.— THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY — We Met.

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness: So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.— LONGFELLOW — Tales of a Wayside Inn.

The Theologian's Tale. Elizabeth. Pt. IV. The joy of meeting not unmixed with pain.— LONGFELLOW — Morituri Salutamus. L. 113.

In life there are meetings which seem Like a fate. OWEN MEREDITH (Lord Lytton)- Lucile. Pt. II. Canto III. St. 8. Some day, some day of days, threading the street With idle, heedless pace, Unlooking for such grace, I shall behold your face! Some day, some day of days, thus may we meet.— NORA PERRY — Some Day of Days.

And so he'll die; and, rising so again, When I shall meet him in the court of heaven I shall not know him.— Shakespeare — King John. Act III. Sc. 4. L. 86.

When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain?— Shakespeare — Macbeth. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 1.