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“I don’t have friends unfortunately. My friends are my family because I believe those are the safest friends.”
Rebecca Malope (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Your wedding day is all about you and your partner sharing your happiness with your family and close friends. I’ve decided that I won’t have any bridesmaid at my wedding. I’ve had too many friends turn on me, so only my children will be at the front with me. The few good friends that I do have will wear a special colour that matches with ours to show who they are”
Nomsa Buthelezi (born 1982) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nomsa Buthelezi spills the beans on her own 'perfect wedding' planning,15 July 2019,By CHRIZELDA KEKANA
“Kasi friends kami (Because we're friends), so there’s no competition naman between friends.”
Solenn Heussaff (born 1985) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: PEP.ph. 22 June 2012.
“I had friends who were on drugs but I have never taken drugs in my life. I had friends who were always going to night clubs but I preferred regular parties. I had friends who broke bounds in school and I also did a bit of that.”
Kofo Abayomi (1896–1979) said by 1979 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The people around you need to respect what you’re doing. Isolating yourself from a social life can be difficult. Friends want to party all night and you don’t want to always party with them, but if you’re organised you can make your friends understand and support you. If they’re real friends, they’ll want you to succeed.”
Wilson Kipketer (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I regard the Honourable member for Randburg as a friend. I regard him as a person who has done tremendous work as treasurer of the United Party on the Witswatersrand branch. The test of friendship comes in what you do as a man in adversity. I want to say, and I make so secret of it, that I am my brother's keeper and I will not be his executioner.”
Harry Schwarz (1924–2010) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: An extract from Schwarz's "Brother's Keeper" speech to parliament where Schwarz was expelled from the United Party after declaring support for Dick Enthoven MP and his anti-apartheid policies. (10 February 1975).
“I have had closer interactions with President Putin than with any other foreign colleagues. He is my best and bosom friend. I cherish dearly our deep friendship.”
Xi Jinping (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mr. Sensible learned only catchwords from them. He could talk like Epicurus of spare diet, but he was a glutton. He had from Montaigne the language of friendship, but no friend.”
C. S. Lewis (1898–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A man that is fit to make a friend of must have conduct to manage the engagement, and resolution to maintain it. He must use freedom without roughness, and oblige without design. Cowardice will betray friendship, and covetousness will starve it. Folly will be nauseous, passion is apt to ruffle, and pride will fly out into contumely and neglect.”
Jeremy Collier (1650–1726) said by 1726 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“His poor soul was flooded with pleasure as he realized that one friend was all that a man needed in order to be well-supplied with friendship.”
Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For of course it was impossible that she was doing it all without cause. That was the nature of power; when you had it no one was ever again simply a friend, simply a lover. Inevitably they all wanted things you could give them—if nothing else, the prestige of friendship with the powerful.”
Kim Stanley Robinson (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“2446. The Word Friend is a common Name, and appropriated by most People ; but believe me, thou wilt scarce ever find a Man that gives solid Proof of a true, unfeigned, and uninterested Friendship.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“By in love she meant the acuteness of the heart at the sudden sight of a particular person or the way over a couple of years of interested friendship one is suddenly stunned by the lungs' longing for more and more breath in the presence of that friend”
Grace Paley (1922–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Those who boast of friendship with us, they can really be our friend when they respect our independence, our soil and our prideful traditions.”
Hafizullah Amin (1929–1979) said by 1979 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Beverley Male (1982) Revolutionary Afghanistan: A Reappraisal, page 183
“Oh my lov'd friend! till now I never knew The pangs of parting friendship. At distance I have tasted of the pain, When the rude morn has sundered us away, To our repose: but by my soul, I swear Even then my eyes would drop a silent tear, Repugnant still to close, and shut out thee.”
George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne (1666–1735) said by 1735 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Friendship: A true friend will always listen to you patiently, assist you readily, stand with you boldly, advise you wisely, heal your wounds tenderly, and help you transform your pain effectively.”
Thích Nhật Từ (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I affirm that Indonesia is a true friend of Malaysia and I hope that trade and business relations, investment, culture and labor issues can be improved. The friendship between the two (nations) must be strengthened.”
Anwar Ibrahim (born 1947) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Anwar Ibrahim (2022) cited in: "Indonesia's Jokowi first foreign leader to call Anwar with congratulatory message" in The Star, 24 November 2022.
“When I tell you I'm angry, it's an understatement. Mike has been nothing but loyal to that man. He's been nothing but a good friend of that man... I am so disappointed in the fact that [despite] the loyalty and friendship he had with Mike Pence, that he would do that to him. Like, I'm disgusted by it.”
Nikki Haley (born 1972) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nikki Haley's Time for Choosing", Politico (February 12, 2021).
“It’s an eight-year-long friendship. I married my best friend (Naga Chaitanya). I know I am Akkineni Samantha from now onwards and I have to live up to the family’s legacy and reputation.”
Samantha Ruth Prabhu (born 1987) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I’m Akkineni Samantha from now and I have to live up to the family’s legacy, says the newly wed Samantha". Pinkvilla. (14 October 2017).
“You don't kill your brother. You don't rape your sister. You don't destroy your friend's country. That's why today we dismantled this monument once created as a sign of friendship between Ukraine and Russia.”
Vitali Klitschko (born 1971) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tweeted 26 April 2022 during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
“Marriage is a relationship just like friendship. So, if you are not getting the best from your friend, it is better and more peaceful to quit.”
Moji Olaiya (1975–2017) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Moji on marriage in 2017
“Your friendship will be very important to someone today, so give yourself time to be a good friend.”
Lily Appiah wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Today, this may be hard to imagine. We felt like a mother’s daughter, we were ready to give our lives to protect our friend. Several have written about this pure fraternal friendship, but I was most impressed by the memories of Professor Stefanaq Pollo”
Liri Belishova (1923–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He ought not to pretend to friendship's name, Who reckons not himself and friend the same.”
Sir Samuel Tuke, 1st Baronet (1615–1674) said by 1674 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are hurting. Gomolemo was my friend. As a consequence of that friendship, some in my party [The ruling Botswana Democratic Party] suspected I was also a member of his party [the Botswana Movement for Democracy] The Lord gave and Lord has taken.”
Quett Masire (1925–2017) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Masire makes a coded clarion call for change of government Sunday Standard(11 August 2014)
“Background knowledge of Christianity and Christ may have come from Tacitus,Pliny's friend (Letter 1.7, addressed to Tacitus, talks of their long friendship; they often exchanged their writings for comment). [...] Pliny, however, shows no knowledge of Christian writings in this letter.”
Robert E. Van Voorst (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Friendship heightens all our affections. We receive all the ardor of our friend in addition to our own. The communication of minds gives to each the fervor of each.”
William Ellery Channing (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mrs. Galpin ... is one of the finest women in the world ... She speaks no English, only her native Sioux. She is a friend of her own race and also of the whites. Her friendship is not proved by words but by deeds.”
Eagle Woman (1820–1888) said by 1888 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For when did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy. . . . I well know that mirror of friendship, shadow of a shade.”
Theognis (570–490 BC) said by 490 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The principal merit which should be required in our friends, is virtue : It is that which assures us they are capable of friendship, and worthy of it : expect nothing from your connections, when they have not this foundation. (pp. 54-55).”
Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert (1647–1733) said by 1733 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Well, not on Lopen’s watch. You didn’t let your friends drown in nameless oceans during a frigid storm. That was, sure, basic friendship rules right there.”
Brandon Sanderson (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.”
Aristotle (384–322 BC) said by 322 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I shd. say, 'sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends.'”
C. S. Lewis (1898–1963) first seen 1935 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Arthur Greeves (29 December 1935); in They Stand Together (1979), p. 477
“Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.”
George Santayana (1863–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women (1992) by Rosalie Maggio, p. 130
“Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family — but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.”
Willa Cather (1873–1947) first seen 1931 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Shadows on the Rock (1931), Book III, Ch. 5
“Regrettably, some seem to believe that the US friendship means the US must accept any policy regardless all our interests, our own words, our own position, our own principles, even after urging again and again that the policy must change... Friends need to tell each other the hard truth and friendships require mutual respect.”
John Kerry (born 1943) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On UNSC resolution 2334, Kerry Blasts Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu — (December 2016)
“Friendship is one of the grand fundamental principles of "Mormonism"; [it is designed] to revolutionize and civilize the world, and cause wars and contentions to cease and men to become friends and brothers.”
Joseph Smith Jr. (1805–1844) first seen 1843 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: History of the Church, 5:517 (23 July 1843)
“I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.”
Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Vogue (May 1984)
“When I finally gathered, invented, stole, simplified, borrowed, and found a publisher for a clutch of reasonably foolproof recipes, I learned I had friends I hadn't known about—more proof that a mutual dislike can be quite as sound a basis for friendship as a mutual devotion.”
Peg Bracken (1918–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Tories and their friends are laughing all the way to the bank at the disunity in Scotland. We must extend the hand of friendship to the SNP.”
George Galloway (born 1954) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reaction to the results of the 1992 general election (10 April 1992), quoted in The Times (11 April 1992), p. 7.
“It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I used to go out with Severin a lot to dance clubs but we wouldn't dance. It'd be more like take drugs and try to get to the toilet which would usually take about two hours...we became good friends but we were never really good for each other. Our friendship was based entirely on altered states. Whenever we went out together I would never come home until the next day. Mary hated it. (Faith, 1983)”
Robert Smith (musician) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.”
Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855) said by 1855 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Carolyn Warner (1992), page 135
“How long have we been friends, Dan?” “I wouldn’t exactly call it friendship; more a kind of mutual parasitism.”
Alastair Reynolds (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was astonishing how quickly friendship could turn to enmity, she thought, like a compass needle swinging from one pole to the other. They’d been excellent friends. They’d make excellent enemies as well.”
Alastair Reynolds (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One of FDR's most heart-warming qualities was his almost illimitable gift for friendship, which arose out of his idealism, his innate delight in life, and his generosity. His friends were of the widest possible variety, from formidable old crustaceans like Admiral King to courageous, incisive women like Anna Rosenberg to columnists like Walter Winchell.”
John Gunther (1901–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He was my mentor, one of my best friends. We co-worked together. And actually, at some point, it became less about music and more about just friendship. He was like my small daddy kind of. And when I started getting into trouble in the industry, he was like my bailout and my defender.”
“Mongolia and China are friendly neighbors linked by mountains and rivers, with many important buildings in Ulaanbaatar that were built with the help of Chinese friends, witnessing the friendship between the two neighbors.”
Ukhnaagiin Khürelsükh (born 1968) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ukhnaagiin Khürelsükh (2022) cited in: "CREC4-built sewage plant in Ulaanbaatar reaches new milestone" in China Daily, 6 July 2022.