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“These are the causes that brought Michele so quickly to the edge of the precipice; he had no other friends left except his courtiers, and where there is no virtue there is no friendship. (p. 173)”
Ion Heliade Rădulescu (1802–1872) said by 1872 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There's no such thing as friendship between men and women, if it's not the girl who's excited, then the guy's the guy who's excited, if someone says they both don't have feelings, there's bound to be someone who denies it, pure friends of the opposite sex are bullshit.”
Nagita Slavina (born 1988) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have had many friends, like the hare in the fable, but most of them didn't pay expenses. Friendship is like mining; sometimes you drop into a good thing, but the majority of places are duffers.”
Marcus Clarke (1846–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Friendship", in A Marcus Clarke Reader (1963)
“No poor man can afford to have many friends. They would ruin him. Indeed, friendship is a luxury which should be indulged in with caution even by the rich.”
Marcus Clarke (1846–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Friendship", in A Marcus Clarke Reader (1963)
“Friendship is universal. My friendships have saved my life. My friends are the family I have chosen for myself.”
Nkuli Sibeko (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’m now 54 years old and I’ve realized that while real friends must be there for you when you are down, there’s another part of friendship where someone is genuinely happy for your success. Like, purely, authentically.”
Karen Davila (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As nice as we are in love, we forgive more faults in that than in friendship. Expostulations betwixt friends end generally ill, but well betwixt lovers.”
Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696–1782) said by 1782 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Friends should not be chosen to flatter. The quality we should prize is that rectitude which will shrink from no truth. Intimacies which increase vanity destroy friendship.”
William Ellery Channing (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Israel has no better friend than America. And America has no better friend than Israel. We stand together to defend democracy. We stand together to advance peace. We stand together to fight terrorism. Congratulations America. Congratulations, Mister President. You got bin Laden. Good riddance!”
Benjamin Netanyahu (born 1949) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at the U.S. Congress (May 24, 2011).
“The colour I think of little moment; and am of opinion with our friend Foote, respecting his negro friend, that a good dog, like a good candidate, cannot be of a bad colour.”
Peter Beckford (1643–1710) said by 1710 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Thoughts upon Hare and Fox Hunting (1781), Letter 3
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend, so that makes Google my best friend.”
Marc Benioff (born 1964) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Miguel Helft, "Google and Salesforce Join to Fight Microsoft", New York Times (April 14, 2008).
“You know what I want in a woman, Paul?" "What's that?" "A friend. A true friend; someone who knows me and loves me anyway. You know, like when I'm through putting my best foot forward, she's still there, still the same.”
Don Miller (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You know, Don, marriage is worth the trade. You lose all your freedom but you get this friend. This incredible friend.”
Don Miller (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is surely one of the strangest of our propensities to mark out those we love best for the worst usage; yet we do, all of us. We can take any freedom with a friend; we stand on no ceremony with a friend.”
Samuel Laman Blanchard (1804–1845) said by 1845 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Honey you shake and I'll rattle and we'll roll on down the line And see if we can't get in touch with a very close friend of mine. But let me clue you in, it ain't like him To argue or pretend-- Honey let me introduce you to my redneck friend.”
Jackson Browne (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No friend sympathizes so tenderly with his friend in affliction as does Jesus. "In all our afflictions, He is afflicted." He feels all our sorrows, wants, and burdens as His own. Whence it is that the sufferings of believers are called the sufferings of Christ.”
John Flavel (1627–1691) said by 1691 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Secretary Madeleine Albright was a good friend of mine for the last 28 years. I am so sad about losing a good friend and a great woman in this fragile world of ours. May you rest in peace dear one...”
Barbra Streisand (born 1942) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Celebrities & Politicians Mourn Madeleine Albright Following Her Death (March 23, 2022)
“Paper is my best friend and paper seller is my worst friend!”
Javad Alizadeh (born 1953) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Humor & Caricature (April 1995), p. 3
“Sharron Angle: We needed to have the press be our friend. Carl Cameron: Wait a minute. Hold on a second. To be your friend…? Sharron Angle: Well, truly— Carl Cameron: That sounds naive. Sharron Angle: Well, no. We wanted them to ask the questions we want to answer so that they report the news the way we want it to be reported.”
Sharron Angle (born 1949) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: interview with Carl Cameron on Fox News Channel, 2010-08-02
“Anger has an enemy: Peace. Peace has no enemy. Peace has a special friend: Joy. Anger has only one friend: Destruction.”
Sri Chinmoy (1931–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) first seen 1840 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: February 28, 1840
“Up! up! my friend, and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double! Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks! Why all this toil and trouble?”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) said by 1850 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Pain is good, I'd say, when it's incidental to Love. In 'I give up my life for my friend' it is my friend, not my death, that matters. And sometimes I needn't give up my life for him, I can live for him, and with him, and the power of the spirit is then equally manifested, I should think.”
E. M. Forster (1879–1970) first seen 1931 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter 285, to George Thomson, 1 August 1931
“I helped deliver one of my best friend's children. I just was so amazed by my friend, because she was not just a woman, she was not just a mother. At that moment she was creation; she was life; she was God. And as I looked in her eyes, BOOM! Her pussy exploded.”
Margaret Cho (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You prayed to the Lord above Oh please send you a friend Your empty pockets tell yuh That you ain't a-got no friend”
“Abu Hurayra reported that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "A man follows the religion of his close friend, so each of you should be very careful about whom he takes as a close friend.”
Muhammad (571–632) said by 632 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell "friend," I say to them that something's the matter with the way you spell friend.”
Richard Feynman (1918–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You're such a liar.” “But I’m a beautiful liar, don’t you think?” She flashed her best smile at her friend. “I don’t understand what men see in women anyway,” her friend answered. “Hexes or no hexes, as long as a woman has her clothes on a man can’t see what he’s interested in anyhow.”
Orson Scott Card (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Israel, our great friend and the one true democracy in the Middle East has been snubbed and criticized by an administration that lacks moral clarity... President Obama has not been a friend to Israel. He has treated Iran with tender love and care and made it a great power.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A friend cannot be considered a friend unless he is tested on three occasions: in time of need, behind your back and after your death.”
Ali (599–661) said by 661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If a friend envies you, then he is not a true friend.”
Ali (599–661) said by 661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“MT [ Mother Teresa ] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.”
Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves, by thumping on your back, His sense of your great merit, Is such a friend that one had need Be very much his friend indeed To pardon or to bear it.”
William Cowper (1731–1800) first seen 1782 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Friendship", l. 169 (1782)
“Do not grieve, my friend, my dearest friend. I am ready to go. And John, it will not be long.”
Abigail Adams (1744–1818) said by 1818 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Last words in a letter to John Adams, as quoted in Famous Last Words (1961) by Barnaby Conrad
“A true friend is forever a friend.”
George MacDonald (1824–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yes, his father was a Nazi; yes, he has been a consistent supporter and friend of renowned Nazi Kurt Waldheim. All right, so what if the rumors--confirmed for SPY by a businessman and longtime friend of Arnold's--that in the 1970s he enjoyed playing and giving away records of Hitler's speeches are true?”
Arnold Schwarzenegger (born 1947) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Charles Fleming, "Uh-Oh" March 1992, page 62 of Spy Magazine
“Once my lover, now my friend; What a cruel thing to pretend. What a cunning way to condescend; Once my lover, and now my friend.Oh, you creep up like the clouds And you set my soul at ease. Then you let your love abound, And you bring me to my knees.”
Fiona Apple (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Take not thine enemy for thy friend; nor thy friend for thine enemy!”
Pythagoras (583–491 BC) said by 491 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“my friend and i were watching mtv the other day when nelly came on and my friend was like "omg nelly rules". hes such an idiot, he only listens to trendy music. at least i like original stuff like beyonce.”
“I am a friend, comrades, a friend!”
Yuri Gagarin (1934–1968) first seen 1961 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: First words upon returning to Earth, to a woman and a girl near where his capsule landed (12 April 1961) The woman asked: "Can it be that you have come from outer space?" to which Gagarin replied: "As a matter of fact, …
“To My Friend John Sylvester, Just a few words reminding you that I have not forgotten my sick little pal. Sorry I couldn’t get out to see you but here’s hoping this little message of cheer finds you well on the road to recovery. I will try to knock you another homer maybe two today. Best regards from your friend and rooter, “Babe” Ruth.”
Babe Ruth (1895–1948) first seen 1926 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Handwritten note, written on October 9, 1926, just prior to Game 6 of the World Series, reproduced in "Bambino's Death Stirs Prayers; Baseball Memories Roused; Message Recalls Story of Homers in '26", The Salt Lake Trib…
“I like the American-Canadian border, 'cause if you're walking on the border with a friend, and you push your friend into Canada, he can't push you back right away, 'cause first he has to go through customs. "What brings you to Canada?":[Points to the side] "That asshole." "When are you leaving?" "As soon as I regain my equilibrium!”
Mitch Hedberg (1968–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Does my right hon. Friend not know that it is fatal for any Government or party or person to seek to govern in direct opposition to the principles on which they were entrusted with the right to govern? In introducing a compulsory control of wages and prices, in contravention of the deepest commitments of this party, has my right hon. Friend taken leave of his senses?”
Enoch Powell (1912–1998) first seen 1972 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Question to the Prime Minister Edward Heath in the House of Commons (6 November 1972)
“If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.”
Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Power of Respect : Benefit from the Most Forgotten Element of Success (2009) by Deborah Norville, p. 65
“God knows I am no friend of probability theory, I have hated it from the first moment when our dear friend Max Born gave it birth. For it could be seen how easy and simple it made everything, in principle, everything ironed and the true problems concealed. Everybody must jump on the bandwagon [Ausweg]. And actually not a year passed before it became an official credo, and it still is.”
Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Albert Einstein (13 June 1946), as quoted by Walter Moore in Schrödinger: Life and Thought (1989)
“What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.” That was indeed a great benefit; such a person can never be alone. You may be sure that such a man is a friend to all mankind.”
Seneca the Younger (5 BC–65) said by 65 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have found yet another friend here. And with such a friend we will together form a team, like a soccer team. This will be a fighting team.”
Hugo Chávez (1954–2013) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hugo Chávez, referring to Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, to reporters during a state visit to Minsk, Belarus, on July 25, 2006.
“Losing hope is easy When your only friend is gone And every time you look around Well, it all, it all just seems to change But hanging on is easy When you've got a friend to call When nothings making sense at all You're not the only one that's afraid of change”
Jack Johnson (musician) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A woman can only become a man’s friend in three stages: first, she’s an agreeable acquaintance, then a mistress, and only after that a friend.”
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) said by 1904 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There ain't nothin' to it. You go into the fancy meeting room and you just sit there and never open your yap. As long as you don't say nuthin' they don't know whether you're smart or dumb. When the question of a loan comes up, if it's a friend of yours, you vote to give it to him and if he ain't a friend, you don't.”
Casey Stengel (1890–1975) first seen 1964 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On his duties as "vice-president of a flourishing bank in California"; as quoted in "Try and Stop Me" by Bennett Cerf, in The Raleigh Register / Beckley Post-Herald (December 5, 1964), p. 19