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“If only my hon. Friend would conduct the novel experiment of listening with his ears instead of his voice, a whole new world would open to him.”
Michael Foot (1913–2010) first seen 1979 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in the House of Commons (26 November 1979)
“She was my closest friend. She was the one person, other than my husband, I could turn to in a crisis. There was a lot of resentment when I first came to town. But Patsy was strong-willed and always taking up for me. If it hadn't been for her, I don't think I would have lasted.”
Loretta Lynn (1932–2022) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Patsy Cline, as quoted in Country Weekly (6 December 2002)
“But here, in the murk of conflagration, where scarcely a friend is left to know we, the survivors, do not flinch from anything, not from a single blow. Surely the reckoning will be made after the passing of this cloud. We are the people without tears, straighter than you … more proud...”
Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) first seen 1922 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I am not one of those who left the land..." (1922), translated in Poems of Akhmatova (1973) by Stanley Kunitz and Max Hayward
“A friend last weekend said he thought the story about the University of New Hampshire's website publishing a bias-free language guide, which declared that use of the word "American" is "problematic," was a hoax. Of course, it was real.”
Dan Henninger first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Joy of Madness", The Wall Street Journal (17 September 2015), A13.
“A friend of mine recently joked that his mobile phone will beat Magnus Carlsen. I said, ‘What are you talking about? My microwave could beat Magnus Carlsen.'”
Nigel Short (born 1965) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Washington Post (April 14, 2015)
“I somehow see what's beautiful In things that are ephemeral I'm my only friend of mine And love is just a piece of time in the world in the world. And I couldn't help but fall in love again.”
Zooey Deschanel (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Well I’m back in your good graces again Remember when you told me that I was your only friend?”
Zooey Deschanel (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The trend is your friend except at the end where it bends.”
Ed Seykota (born 1946) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Source: Schwager, Jack D. Technical Analysis, Wiley; 1 edition (December 1995), Read it here
“Can we begin again? Save it for another friend, I was happy in my life I won’t pretend. ~ "EZ”
“From time to time, to remind ourselves to relax, to be peaceful, we may wish to set aside some time for a retreat, a day of mindfulness, when we can walk slowly, smile, drink tea with a friend, enjoy being together as if we are the happiest people on Earth. This is not a retreat, it is a treat.”
Thích Nhất Hạnh (1926–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You can't get a big head about [fame]. When people stare at me, they could be whispering to their friend, 'That guy sucks! Have you seen him before? He's horrible.'”
David Spade (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If the world did end. Would you be my apocalyptic friend?”
Ed Harcourt (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At one campus where I was lecturing, I asked a friend, "How many of my colleagues know I'm gay?" He answered, "All of them." I wasn't surprised. But, just the same, it was kind of spooky, because not one of them had ever given me the faintest sign that he or she knew. If I had spoken about it myself, most of them would have felt it was in bad taste.”
Christopher Isherwood (1904–1986) first seen 1973 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Christopher Isherwood Interview" with Winston Leyland (1973), from Conversations with Christopher Isherwood, ed. James J. Berg and Chris Freeman (2001), p. 108
“I was embarrassed when a businessman friend asked, 'What's the yearly budget of your talk show? What's the per-episode budget?' And I looked at him with these blank, typical-model eyes and said, 'I don't know.' I call myself a businesswoman and I don't know that? So that is my goal next year--to really dissect the budget.”
Tyra Banks (born 1973) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kiri Blakeley (July 3, 2006) "Celebrity 100: Tyra Banks On It", Forbes, Forbes.com LLC.
“This petty place cannot be Hell, Roadstrum? Ah, but it is my friend. That, you see, is the hell of it.”
R. A. Lafferty (1914–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How much frankness can we stand in a friend?”
Max Frisch (1911–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Are you friend with yourself ?”
Max Frisch (1911–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Pete's my best friend, I was the best man at his wedding, I love that man to death. I'd take a bullet for him.”
Patrick Stump (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The people of Afghanistan should know that America is not their friend and that America's war and peace with all other countries are based on its own interests.”
Ali Meshkini (1922–2007) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tehran Hosting Intifada Conference March 2002.
“It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.”
Mary Renault (1905–1983) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Praise Singer (1978)
“Well, Gaffer [his early friend Mr. Wells, artist] I see there will be no peace till I comply; so give me a piece of paper. There, now, rule the size for me, and tell me what I am to do. [Mr. Wells told him: 'Well divide your subject into classes, say: Pastoral, Marine, Elegant Pastoral, and so forth..']”
J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851) first seen 1806 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Turner, c. 1806?; told by Mr Wells' daughter, Mrs. Wheeler; included in The life of J.M.W. Turner, Volume II, George Walter Thornbury; Hurst and Blackett Publishers, London, 1862, p. 55
“Hawkey - Hawkey [Mr. Fawkes of Farnley Hall, North Yorkshire, close friend of Turner] - come here - come here! Look at this thunderstorm! Isn't it grand? - Isn't it wonderful? - Isn't it sublime?. .There, Hawkey; in two years you will see this again, and call it 'Hannibal Crossing the Alps'.”
J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851) first seen 1810 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote c. 1810; as quoted in 'A brief history of weather in European landscape art', John E. Thornes, in Weather Volume 55, Issue 10 Oct. 2000, p. 368
“The enemy of your enemy is not your friend. September 11 attacks and Israel’s 9/11 exemplify the proverbial warning that “If you lie down with the devil, you will wake up in hell.”
Newton Lee wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Prayer is the opening of the heart to God as to a friend. Not that it is necessary in order to make known to God what we are, but in order to enable us to receive Him. Prayer does not bring God down to us, but brings us up to Him.”
Ellen G. White (1827–1915) first seen 1892 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Steps to Christ (1892), p. 93
“Even when I was a kid, my imaginary friend would play with the kid across the street. I'd be like, "Hey, so I guess I'll see you later," and he's like, "Whatever, queer.”
Daniel Tosh (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I put a "What Would Jesus Do?" bracelet on my Jewish friend's wrist and it burned his skin. He threw it on the ground, it turned into a serpent, we both started laughing. We left it there. We hate snakes. We think they're slimy even though we know they're not.”
Daniel Tosh (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“1887. Think thyself happy if thou hast one true Friend; never think of finding another.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“2915. Suffer a Friend to reprove thee, and thank him heartily for it : 'Tis a Happiness for a Man that he can be reproved when he does amiss, and be recalled when he runs wrong. Princes are deprived of that Benefit : for they converse familiarly but with very few Persons, and those make it their only Business to humour them.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“92. A Father is a Treasure, a Brother a Comfort ; but a Friend is both.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) first seen 1747 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1747) : A Father's a Treasure; a Brother's a Comfort; a Friend is both.
“2592. I can't be your Friend, and your Flatterer too.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) first seen 1744 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1744) : The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.
“All of a sudden, I'm thinking, these guys [Afghani men] aren't so bad. I'm like the type of asshole where if you're nice to me once, I'm your friend for life. Sure, you hacked your kid's clit off, but you were nice!”
Kathy Griffin (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You'll have to excuse my friend, Ryan. That's the first time he's ever touched a woman.”
Kathy Griffin (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oprah decides to go with her "friend", Gayle.”
Kathy Griffin (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live; yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old friend, let not your heart be silent on the dissolving of a faith.”
James Anthony Froude (1818–1894) said by 1894 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And I would have, now love is over, An end to all, an end: I cannot, having been your lover, Stoop to become your friend!”
Arthur Symons (1865–1945) first seen 1892 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: After Love, st. 3 (1892).
“If your friend told you to download an app and you saw it in the App Store with good reviews, you might assume that everything on it was legitimate even before you saw MetaTrader's logo, which looks like three men in suits jerking each other off under a table -- an appropriate metaphor for cryptocurrency if I have ever seen one.”
John Oliver (born 1977) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Last Week Tonight -- "Pig Butchering Scams" (ff. 0:11:35) (25 February 2024)
“Each one gave the other the only assistance one man can expect from another: that his friend support him and ask only that he remain himself. It is no great accomplishment to take people as they are, and we must always do so eventually, but to wish them to be as they are, that is a genuine love.”
Émile Chartier (1868–1951) said by 1951 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Rome stuffs its ears when it hears thee; the world reviles thee. I can blush for thee no longer, and I have no wish to do so. The howls of Cerberus, though resembling thy music, will be less offensive to me, for I have never been the friend of Cerberus, and I need not be ashamed of his howling.”
Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[cries] I just want my friend back!”
Jack Black (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ay, gather your petals and take them back To the dead heart under the dew; And crown it again with the red love bloom, For the dead are always true. But go not "back to the sediment" In the slime of the moaning sea, For a better world belongs to you, And a better friend to me.”
Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912) said by 1912 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.”
John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) said by 1925 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Bentley and Esar, Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951)
“I'm sorry, but there's no disturbed mental balance here, my friend. I'd say he got it just right. Bad thing upon bad thing upon bad thing... Surely that's fair enough? Surely the coroner's report should read, "He took his own life after sober and careful contemplation of the fucking shambles it had become.”
Nick Hornby (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There’s an inner thing in every man, Do you know this thing my friend? It has withstood the blows of a million years, And will do so to the end.It was born when time did not exist, And it grew up out of life, It cut down evil’s strangling vines, Like a slashing searing knife.”
Bobby Sands (1954–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'..learn to draw: that's where most of you [Troyon's pupils] are falling down today.. ..draw with all your might; you can never learn too much. However, don’t neglect painting, go to the country from time to time and make studies and above all develop them..' [Monet is quoting in his letter Troyon, a friend of Boudin in Paris]”
Claude Monet (1840–1926) first seen 1859 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in a letter to , 1859; as quoted in Discovering Art, – The life time and work of the World's greatest Artists, MONET; K.E. Sullivan, Brockhamptonpress, London 2004, p. 11
“At some point in the past, this person was (arguably) your best friend.”
Chuck Klosterman (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“a later confession to his friend [art-teacher]; as quoted by , in Expressionism; Praeger Publishers, New York, 1973, p. 76”
Emil Nolde (1867–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All things – great, small, good, bad, friend, enemy—should be a lesson, not an obsession.”
Eugene J. Martin (1938–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My experiences of meditation began before bearded pajama time, which a friend of mine is encouraging me to describe as a mental breakdown. I don’t think it was, as I would say that despair is a necessary ingredient of a breakdown. What did happen at the time of my divorce was that a lot of my beliefs and their outward manifestations fell away.”
Russell Brand (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Travel in the old ruts," quotes my friend Meredith; some ancient Chinese maxim. The way lain down by elders. Pathways through the world, pathways through the mind—it’s a shame that these days we so seldom have a guide. That our atomized worldview, mimicking scientific doctrine, sees us as separate, distinct, alone, orbiting in space, touching only an infinite void.”
Russell Brand (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To flesh your friend’s curiosity, and then endeavour to leave him with a hûc usque, is exposing your faculty of reticence to an unnecessary trial.”
Henry Taylor (1800–1886) said by 1886 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source