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“And choose an author as you choose a friend.”
Earl Of Roscommon (1633–1684) said by 1684 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Friend to my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He held his seat,--a friend to human race.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Not hate, but glory, made these chiefs contend; And each brave foe was in his soul a friend.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“In death a hero, as in life a friend!”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“But he whose inborn worth his acts commend, Of gentle soul, to human race a friend.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“My friend was of opinion that when a man of rank appeared in that character [as an author], he deserved to have his merits handsomely allowed.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) said by 1784 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Can't I another's face commend, And to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead lowers, As if _her_ merit lessen'd _yours_?”
Edward Moore (1712–1757) said by 1757 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A fav'rite has no friend!”
Thomas Gray (1716–1771) said by 1771 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to mis'ry (all he had) a tear, He gained from Heav'n ('t was all he wish'd) a friend.”
Thomas Gray (1716–1771) said by 1771 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe; But 't is the happy that have called thee so.”
Robert Southey (1774–1843) said by 1843 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“By Heaven! it is a splendid sight to see For one who hath no friend, no brother there.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Heroic, stoic Cato, the sententious, Who lent his lady to his friend Hortensius.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Good bye, proud world! I 'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I 'm not thine.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) said by 1882 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) said by 1882 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Cæsar and his fortunes in your boat.”
Plutarch (40–120) said by 120 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Faithful are the wounds of a friend.”
The Bible (active around 812) bartlett, Public domain source
“Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.”
The Bible (active around 812) bartlett, Public domain source
“But it was even thou, my companion, my guide, and mine own familiar friend.”
Book Of Common Prayer (active around 850) bartlett, Public domain source
“My dad’s German friend bought it from me and I remember it was a painting of a ‘rooibokkie’ (an impala). I, then decided I wanted to be an artist.”
Ina Millman wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dear, why should you command me to my rest, When now the night doth summon all to sleep? Methinks this time becometh lovers best; Night was ordain'd together friends to keep.”
Michael Drayton (1563–1631) said by 1631 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sometimes it seems to me that God's way of dealing with me is not to let me see much of my friends, those who are most to me in the spiritual life, lest I should forget that the invisible bond is the only reality. That is the only way I can reconcile myself to the inevitable separations of life and death.”
Lucy Larcom (1824–1893) first seen 1893 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Her last letter to Episcopalian Bishop Phillips Brooks, just prior to his death on 23 January (17 January 1893), in Ch. 12 : Last Years.
“If she repent, and would make me amends, Bid her but send me hers, and we are friends.”
Thomas Carew (1594–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There was a day when I died, utterly died — died to George Müller, his opinions, preferences, tastes, and will; died to the world, its approval or censure; died to the approval or blame even of my brethren and friends — and since then I have only to show myself approved to God.”
George Müller (1805–1898) said by 1898 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He [George W. Bush] was speaking in congress and he was saying "Why do they hate us? Because of what’s going on right here in this chamber: a democratically elected government. Except for me, of course. I took the presidency in a bureaucratic coup with the help of my father’s friends in the courthouse around the corner.”
Marc Maron (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I never really had the intention of being a rock 'n' roller. It's just that all of my best friends were great musicians and they felt sorry for me so they had me. (Much Music 1991).”
Anthony Kiedis (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have always had plenty of friends, and now at age sixty, I face four walls as a common prisoner.”
Albert Kesselring (1885–1960) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Leon Goldensohn, February 4, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004.
“Let them try me. I shall have plenty to say about the Allies. I have some very good friends among the Americans and English, and the French industrialists, too. I have done nothing of which I am ashamed.”
Erhard Milch (1892–1972) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Leon Goldensohn, March 13, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
“When foes insult, and prudent friends dispense, In pity's strains, the worst of insolence, Oft with thee, Lloyd, I steal an hour from grief, And in thy social converse find relief.”
Charles Churchill (satirist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with an awareness of the fact that what is important is life, friends and attempting to make this unjust world a better place in which to live.”
Oscar Niemeyer (1907–2012) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Curves of Time: The Memoirs of Oscar Niemeyer (2000), p. 176
“I don’t think they (the Chinese) have better friends in Africa than us. But when we compare to how much money we get, if we succeed, if the MCA is funded by the US Congress for Tanzania, it’s going to be $700 Million. It’s going to be huge, it may be a total of all the Chinese have been giving us all these years.”
Jakaya Kikwete (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In those years, when I came to the States, people were always asking me why I didn’t sing anymore. I’d tell them, ‘I sing all around the world—Asia, Africa, Europe—but if you don’t sing in the US, then you haven’t really made it.’ That’s why I’ll always be grateful to Paul Simon. He allowed me to bring my music back to my friends in this country.”
Miriam Makeba (1932–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Poet, J. (11 February 2009)
“That was the only time my mother saw me on stage. At one point in the play I am strangled and my mother jumped from her seat and screamed: 'No. You will not get away with murder. You cannot do this to my daughter.' Friends explained to her that this was not for real — that we were acting. But she made such a fuss. Everyone was so embarrassed. On stage my heart sank.”
Miriam Makeba (1932–2008) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Nkrumah, Gamal (1–7 November 2001)
“Forty years ago, when Dylan Thomas read, he spent half the program reciting other poets' work. Hardly a self-effacing man, he was nevertheless humble before his art. Today most readings are celebrations less of poetry than of the author's ego. No wonder the audience for such events usually consists entirely of poets, would-be poets, and friends of the author.”
Dana Gioia (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whatever affection we have for our friends or relations, the happiness of others never suffices for our own.”
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747) said by 1747 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tr. E. Lee (1903) p. 188
“Old books, old wine, old Nankin blue;— All things, in short, to which belong The charm, the grace that Time makes strong,— All these I prize, but (entre nous) Old friends are best.”
Henry Austin Dobson (1840–1921) first seen 1884 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Richard Watson Gilder" (1884), line 8, in Carmina Votiva (London: Printed for private circulation, 1901), p. 68.
“My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends — It gives a lovely light.”
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) first seen 1920 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Edna St. Vincent Millay, in "First Fig" from A Few Figs from Thistles (1920); said to be a motto Roald Dahl lived by.
Also quoted by: Roald Dahl (misattributed)
“Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink And rise and sink and rise and sink again; Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath, Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone; Yet many a man is making friends with death Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.”
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) first seen 1931 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sonnet XXX from Fatal Interview (1931)
“No visitors shall yonder valley find. Except the spirits of the rain and wind: Here you must bide, my friends, with me entombed In this dim crypt, where shelved around us lie The mummied authors.”
Bayard Taylor (1825–1878) said by 1878 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All peoples enjoy freedom, and freedom for the development of their culture... There is no Jewish problem in the Soviet Union at all... I have many friends who are Jews.”
Anastas Mikoyan (1895–1978) first seen 1948 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement of January 1959, as quoted in "The Soviet Government and the Jews 1948-1967" (1984), p. 66
“Even in his palmiest days there were good friends who could stand only limited stretches of the Lambert barrage of ideas, jokes, fantasy, quotations, apt instances, things that had struck him as he walked through London, not because these lacked quality, on the contrary because the mixture was after a while altogether too rich.”
Constant Lambert (1905–1951) said by 1951 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Anthony Powell Messengers of Day (1978) p. 60.
“There are two kinds of bathing suits, those that are adapted for use in the water, and those that are unfit for use except on dry land. If you are going to swim, wear a water bathing suit. But if you are merely going to play on the beach and pose for your camera friends, you may safely wear the dry land variety.”
Annette Kellerman (1886–1975) first seen 1918 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: How to Swim (1918), pp. 47–48
“Don't worry. Your friends are dead and you are going to join them.”
Klaus Barbie (1913–1991) first seen 1984 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Blandon from "Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyons" - Page 63 - by Tom Bower - Biography & Autobiography - 1984
“We are getting to be of an age when it is difficult to grow new friends; we haven't the energy, the time to cultivate; each one gone is a permanent impoverishment.”
John Leonard (critic) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We were once friends with the whites, but you nudged us out of the way by your intrigues, and now when we are in council you keep nudging each other. Why don't you talk, and go straight, and let all be well?”
Black Kettle (1803–1868) said by 1868 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You can make more friends in two months by being interested in them, than in two years by making them interested in you.”
Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) said by 1955 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 52 (in 1998 edition)
“By the time they reached the hall, they were not so much friends as fellow-conspirators, for Youth, when it is exiled into the kingdoms of the old, at once turns itself into the strongest of secret societies.”
J. B. Priestley (1894–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source