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“Jussie is my friend - a very talented & beautiful human being. It is so hurtful that homophobic haters would dare hurt someone so loving and giving. I'm dedicated to finding the culprits and bringing them to justice. Jussie did not deserve to be harmed by anyone!”
Maxine Waters (born 1938) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 29 January 2019 regarding Jussie Smollett
Also quoted by: Jussie Smollett
“This is so personal it makes Chris Eubank look like an old friend of mine by comparison.”
Nigel Benn (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ron Sirak, a golf writer and friend, was quoted as saying, "Annika is no longer a female golfer. She's a golfer." That's truly all I ever aspired to be.”
Annika Sörenstam (born 1970) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: End of World Golf Hall of Fame Acceptance Speech - October 2003 http://www.asapsports.com/show_interview.php?id=15370
“We shall lodge at the sign of the Grave, you say; Well, the road is a long one we trudge, my friend, So why should we grieve at the break of the day? Let us sing, let us drink, let us love, let us play,-- We can keep our sights for the journey's end.”
Percy Addleshaw (1866–1916) first seen 1895 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Travellers (1895).
“Anno 1659 / On Wednesday, May 14 / You are requested to attend the funeral of / Aegtje Nachtglas / daughter of the late Jacob Pietersz / Nachtglas / at the Cleveniers-Doele [Amsterdam] at one o'clock. Come as friend of the house / Nieuwe-Kerck. [Verso] So eager to catch Christ out in his answer that they could not wait for written reply.”
Rembrandt (1606–1669) first seen 1047 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Inscription on Rembrandt's drawing 'Christ and the Woman taken into Adultary', on the back of a funeral ticket, after May 1659; (Benesch 1047)
“And as for that low, velvety voice of hers, if she asked me to murder my best friend I should have to do it on the spot.”
Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hard-hearted minds relent and rigor's tears abound, And envy strangely rues his end, in whom no fault was found. Knowledge her light hath lost, valor hath slain her knight, Sidney is dead, dead is my friend, dead is the world's delight.”
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke (1554–1628) first seen 1593 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Elegy on Sir Philip Sidney" (1593)
“I dare say you marvel sometimes at my independent way of walking through the world just as if nature had made me of your sex instead of poor Eve's. Trust me, my beloved friend, the mind has no sex but what habit and education give it, and I who was thrown in infancy upon the world like a wreck upon the waters have learned, as well to struggle with the elements as any male child of Adam.”
Frances Wright (1795–1852) first seen 1822 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (11 February 1822) as quoted in Lafayette in Two Worlds (1996), by Lloyd Kramer, p. 158
“Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service performed all precede that goal of eternal life.”
Thomas S. Monson (1927–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I sacrifice my power on the altar of your love that it may be born again on another world. Come friend, let us climb the winding flights of stairs through the narrow door into the chamber bare a single candle burns as we seat ourselves words take form in our minds and repeat themselves : "My beloved and I are one…”
Mike Scott (Scottish musician) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My dear old friend King George V told me he would never have died but for that vile doctor, Lord Dawson of Penn.”
Margot Asquith (1864–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted by Mark Bonham Carter in his Introduction to the 1962 edition of The Autobiography of Margot Asquith (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1962) p. xxxv.
“(Streetwalker to friend) First he wants me to put on bunny ears and patent leather shoes, then he wants me to eat a bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich. I go, "Mister, you are so sick. I don't do nitrites.”
Nicole Hollander (1939–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The picture [Friedrich's painting: 'The Cross on the Baltic Sea' ] for your friend has already been sketched out, but there is no church in it, not a single tree or plant, not a blade of grass. On a bare and rocky seashore there stands, high up, the cross - for those who see it that way, a consolation, and for those who don't see it that way, just a cross.”
Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) first seen 1815 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote from Friedrich's letter to Louise Seidler, 1815; as cited in Romanticism and realism : the mythology of nineteenth-century art - (from Chapter: Friedrich and the language of Landscape), Charles Rosen and Henri Zer…
“Rock Sound: Did you have an imaginary childhood friend?”
Daniel Johns (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My heart is like the willow That bends, but never breaks. It sighs when summer jilts her, It sings when April wakes. So you, who come a-smiling With summer in your eyes, Think not that your beguiling Will take me by surprise. My heart's prepared for aching The moment you take wing. But not, my friend, for breaking While there's another spring.”
Yip Harburg (1896–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, Read out my words at night, alone: I was a poet, I was young.”
James Elroy Flecker (1884–1915) first seen 1911 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence", ll. 17-20. Forty-two Poems (1911)
“Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; / I am your friend, but never your possession.”
Vera Brittain (1893–1970) first seen 1934 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Married Love", Poems of the War and After (1934)
“The fact that his highly respected old friend regarded the presence of women at Oxford as in no way remarkable undoubtedly caused him to revise his opinion on the whole subject of the higher education of daughters.”
Vera Brittain (1893–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My dad was undeniably famous when I was a kid — he was on Wogan and Clive James and the radio every week, but as far as I was concerned he wasn’t famous enough. My best friend was Ben Brooke-Taylor. His dad Tim was in The Goodies — that was famous.”
Giles Coren (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The free economy is not the enemy but the friend of social capital.”
Ted Malloch (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Zuckerberg: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard Zuckerberg: Just ask Zuckerberg: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS [Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one? Zuckerberg: People just submitted it. Zuckerberg: I don't know why. Zuckerberg: They "trust me" Zuckerberg: Dumb fucks”
Mark Zuckerberg (born 1984) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Instant messages sent by Zuckerberg during Facebook's early days, reported by Business Insider (May 13, 2010)
“To a certain extent, the website is unfortunate because it oversimplifies things. Everybody’s concept of having a friend is different. It can definitely blur the relationships that exist between people. But in the end, I think that Facebook can only reinforce preexisting communities.”
Mark Zuckerberg (born 1984) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Exclusive Interview With Mark Zuckerberg" (Nov. 30, 2004)
“I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain (what I consider the most enviable of all titles) the character of an honest man, as well as prove (what I desire to be considered in reality) that I am, with great sincerity & esteem, Dear Sir Your friend and Most obedient Hble Ser⟨vt⟩”
George Washington (1732–1799) first seen 1788 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Alexander Hamilton (28 August 1788)
“Friend, wherefore art thou come?”
Jesus (6 BC–33) said by 33 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a Republican administration would, directly or indirectly, interfere with their slaves, or with them, about their slaves? If they do, I wish to assure you, as once a friend, and still, I hope, not an enemy, that there is no cause for such fears.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) said by 1865 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine ownself be true. And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Facebook... is the worst thing in the world. Why are we all still on it? What are we doing? We have the power to bring it down. I have one friend whose Facebook updates are exclusively complaining about Facebook. What is going on? What is this world that we're in?”
Paul F. Tompkins (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Cary [Grant] would arrive on the set and everybody's morale immediately lifted. The crew were crazy about him and so was I. But, curiously, I never felt the male-female chemistry that you sometimes experience on a set. I could have been talking to my best girl-friend.”
Laraine Day (1920–2007) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Independent, Obituaries, Laraine Day, November 13, 2007.
“The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He now dare trust.”
Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) first seen 1802 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ethwald (1802), Part II, Act V, scene 3.
“I saw a well-meaning policy statement that said ‘College begins in Kindergarten'. No it doesn’t, Kindergarten begins in Kindergarten. A friend of mine once said ‘A Three-Year old is not half a Six-Year old.”
Ken Robinson (1950–2020) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: TED Conference (2010)
“Be at peace, my friend. One thing I have learnt about Death is that his bark is worse than his bite.”
David Gemmell (1948–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't think I would be too comfortable with many of his compliments ... He's a butcher!" "More than that, my friend ... he is a warmaster. And that makes him a master butcher.”
David Gemmell (1948–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A warrior has only one true friend: himself. So he feeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks skill, he practises. Where he lacks knowledge, he studies. But above all he must believe. He must believe in the strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul.”
David Gemmell (1948–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Blood always aids blood, my friend.”
David Gemmell (1948–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No matter what you've lost Be it a home, a love, a friend Like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again.”
Stan Rogers (1949–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are mourning today a great Canadian and a great leader. He was a friend, he was a colleague for many of us, if not all of us.”
Nycole Turmel (born 1942) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Turmel vows to stay on until NDP chooses leader, August 23, 2011.
“We have lost a great Canadian.We have lost a friend. But I know that when I look out at all of you I am looking at Jack Layton's legacy.”
Nycole Turmel (born 1942) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jack Layton's feathers passed on to Nycole Turmel September 14, 2011.
“As two floating planks meet and part on the sea, O friend! so I met and then drifted from thee.”
William R. Alger (1822–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You'll change inside when you realize The world comes to life and everything's bright From beginning to end when you have a friend by your side.”
Demi Lovato (born 1992) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Well, there are two kinds of people in the world, my friend. Those who show up and those who get Eastwooded. You get Eastwooded.”
William Lane Craig (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Friend us on Facebook!" is a social media strategy like "Buy me a malt liquor!" is a charitable giving plan.”
Merlin Mann (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you need to appear on an internet list to know whether you're someone's friend, you may have problems a computer can't solve.”
Merlin Mann (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You sit around and you go, “Oh, I hope people like me, and I hope they friend me, and I hope they do all this superficial stuff that doesn't cost anything.” But what you really want is to not suck enough that people that you really admire wouldn't mind doing something with you.”
Merlin Mann (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Small town people assume you are a friend if you simply remember their names.”
Randal Marlin (1938–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him—two.”
Norman Douglas (1868–1952) first seen 1941 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Almanac (1941), p. 77
“My knees started knocking, I did feel so sad. Then Brown said, "Don't die in a pub, it looks bad," He said, "Come with me, I'll show you what to do. Now I've got a friend who'll be useful to you." He led me to Black's Undertaking Depot, And Black, with some crepe round his hat said, "Hello, My word you do look queer!”
Stanley Holloway (1890–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The trick is to make fear your friend. Fear forces you to prepare more rigorously and see potential problems more quickly.”
Lewis Pugh (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I would suggest to my honourable Friend that the foreign investor is at least as discouraged by high national debt for that, as all example shows, is the surest precursor of high taxation.”
John James Cowperthwaite (1915–2006) first seen 1966 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: March 24, 1966, page 213.
“We have treated Russia with amazing stupidity. Now we pay the price for that. We had the chance to make her an ally, friend and partner. Instead we turned her into an enemy by insulting a great and proud country with greed, unearned superiority, cynicism, contempt and mistrust.”
Peter Hitchens (born 1951) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Why I blame the arrogant, foolish West: Our response to this crisis in Ukraine has been to react with mistrust and abuse, and with blatant attempts to worsen the situation", The Mail on Sunday (23 February 2022).
“If this is my last night with you, Hold me like I'm more than just a friend. Give me a memory I can use, Take me by the hand while we do What lovers do. It matters how this ends 'Cause what if I never love again?”
Adele (singer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source