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“I don't understand Ethel. I don't, I don't really. She's one of my very best friends, Just about the best, nearly. She's an awfully nice girl, Ethel is, Dainty and refined, I mean she'd never do or say Anything unkind. But get her inside a stadium And she seems to go out of her mind.”
Joyce Grenfell (1910–1979) said by 1979 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you might remind your New Age friends who've gone gaga over 'holistic medicine' and 'alternative Chinese cures.”
Anthony Bourdain (1956–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then I wish I could start this whole thing over again I'm not sayin' it's you could never be true I just don't wanna know how it ends You'd still have my heart in the palm of your hands I'd still look like a fool in front of your friends Yeah I wish somehow I didn't know now what I didn't know then.”
Toby Keith (1961–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Obey your bishop! “Obey those set over you [Heb 13:17],” the teachers of the Church…. I remind you, my dear friends, of what I said when I was with you: do not receive any outside or unknown preacher, unless he be sent by your bishop or preaches with the permission of the pope. For “how shall they preach unless they are sent [Rom 10:15]?”
Bernard of Clairvaux (1091–1153) said by 1153 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bernard of Clairvaux on the Life of the Mind, John R. Sommerfeldt, Newman Press (2004) , p. 67
“I know from people I work with, that people say "I want to have Heidi’s career," and my friends are like, "but she also works very hard." It's the truth! It's not as if I sit back and watch things fly onto my plate. I went for a lot of the things. (Success) doesn't happen by waiting for things to happen because there are other people who are hungry. The early bird catches a worm.”
Heidi Klum (born 1973) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted by InStyle December 2008
“To Mom, Dad, Craig and all of my special friends: Thank-you for loving me and always making me feel good about myself.”
Michelle Obama (born 1964) first seen 1985 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community", senior thesis, Princeton University (1985), dedication ;
“Those who can create wealth — and know that they can — are able to dictate their own terms. Wealth is a means to happiness, but it is not the main one. What most people want is control over their lives. They want the ability to choose how they live: what work they do, the way they interact with friends and colleagues, the quality of their personal relationships, the way they view themselves.”
Richard Koch (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Many people wanna make money, make love, make friends, make peace with death — But most mainly want to win the game they came to win they want to come out ahead. But you, you're a rock, with a heart like a socket I can plug into at will. And will you guess when I come around next. I hope your open sign is blinking still.”
St. Vincent (musician) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I traded my plot of land for a plane to anywhere Oh where did you go. And I can't see the future but I know it's watching me. All my old friends aren't so friendly And all my old haunts are now haunting me.”
St. Vincent (musician) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The result of cutting [political power] up into little bits is simply that the man who can sweep the greatest number into one heap will govern the rest... In a pure democracy the ruling men will be the wirepullers and their friends; but they will no more be on an equality with the voters than soldiers of Ministers of State are on an equality with the subjects of monarchy.”
James Fitzjames Stephen (1829–1894) said by 1894 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My friends like to tell me before they fart like it's important. They get really excited, like I wanna know about it. "Jeez I'm gonna fart." "Don't do it in here ya dickhead there's no windows." Or they tell you after they've done it. "I just farted." But nobody ever tell's you while their doing it. That'd be a bit weird going "I'm farting! (Pause) Still goin'!”
Carl Barron (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What a spirit of contradiction possesses one's kind friends! I, who have never done anything, am supposed to be capable of doing much; it is a great lesson, which I shall lay to heart. I will never give the measure of my shallowness; I will go on laboring in my vocation; I will "do nothing" more energetically than ever.”
Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye (1807–1867) first seen 1857 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the rumors that she was the real author of her son's first book, in a letter to Abraham Howard (9 Jul 1857)
“I'm very lonely now, Mary,— The poor make no new friends;— But, oh! they love the better still The few our Father sends”
Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye (1807–1867) said by 1867 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have so many friends who hate their jobs and man, it's such a struggle trying to find what they love or what they dream of. I feel so lucky that I found what I love and my dreams have started to come true.”
Taryn Manning (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Is it possible for any man to contrive a way to make the Decree of the Council of Trent, commanding the public Offices of the Church to be in Latin, friends with the fourteenth chapter of the Corinthians?”
Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667) first seen 1647 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Θεολογία Εκλεκτική: Of the Liberty of Prophesying (1647), section 6
“You need friends to keep you on your feet, and enemies to keep you on your toes.”
Gregory Benford (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I say it to my Ukrainian friends again and again: there is another Russia. The problem is that the alternatives to Vladimir Putin are either dead or not very alive.”
John Sweeney (journalist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Women, like princes, find few real friends.”
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton (1709–1773) first seen 1732 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Advice to a Lady. 1732", line 10, p. 56
Also quoted by: Lord Lyttleton
“Kevin Bacon (or whatever the character's name was - I'd imagine his friends would call him that as a friendly jibe because he bears an uncanny resemblance to Kevin Bacon) (Why it would kick arse to be invisible)”
Ben Croshaw (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A word of command has made these silent figures our enemies; a word of command might transform them into our friends.”
Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's just something you are.”
John Green (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My friends are the ones I've had since primary school. They're really cool and such a good bunch of people. They came to every one of my gigs before all of this happened, you know; they were there in the smoky pubs, wherever.”
Leona Lewis (born 1985) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Daily Mail, March 2008
“My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.”
Joseph Gordon-Levitt (born 1981) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The New York Times, March 25, 2007.
“His friends he loved. His fellest earthly foes— Cats—I believe he did but feign to hate. My hand will miss the insinuated nose, Mine eyes the tail that wagg'd contempt at Fate.”
William Watson (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our friends and allies are all turned cold.”
William the Silent (1533–1584) said by 1584 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to his brother, Louis of Nassau, as quoted in William the Silent (1897) by Frederic Harrison, p. 93
“[FBI Director J. Edgar] Hoover lied his eyes out to the [Warren] Commission – on Oswald, on Ruby, on their friends, the bullets, the gun, you name it.”
Hale Boggs (1914–1972) said by 1972 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Daisy was a consciously happy young woman without any of the usual endowments that make for conscious happiness, money apart. She was not pretty, she was not clever, she had no friends, no talents, nor even an imagination to make her think she was happy when she was really miserable. As she was never miserable, she had no need of an imagination.”
Laura Riding (1901–1991) first seen 1935 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Daisy and Venison" from Progress of Stories (Deya, Majorca: Seizin Press; London, Constable, 1935)
“Friends should always tell you the truth. But please don’t.”
Louis C.K. (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Welcome to my library! Ever since my high school days, books and magazines have been to my mind what friends are in the flesh. Each and every one of these books and articles-- a fraction of the 12,000 volumes that I share my house with-- has contributed to expanding my dream.”
Patch Adams (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don’t at all want to resemble some of these young designers who ask hallucinating prices for rags that are so in fashion now, that six months later, they are old-fashioned! I love vintage boutiques, I love to customize my clothes. And then, with my friends, we regularly exchange togs.”
Milla Jovovich (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They’d met three years ago at a record launch party when Hilary had made a pass at her. Once they got past the fact that Zoe preferred men and wasn’t planning on changing that preference, they discovered that they had far too much in common not to be good friends.”
Charles de Lint (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And so it ends, We who were lovers may be friends. I have some weeks in which to steel My heart and teach myself to feel Only a sober tenderness Where once was passion's loveliness.”
Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: And so it ends", a poem cited as probably directed to her sister-in-law, Gwen St. Aubyn, in V. Sackville-West : A Critical Biography (1974) by Michael Stevens, p. 91
“And what have I to give my friends in the last resort? An awkwardness, a shyness, and a scrap, No thing that's truly me, a bootless waste, A waste of myself and them, for my life is mine And theirs presumably theirs, and cannot touch.”
Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Days I enjoy" quoted in Vita and Virginia: The Work and Friendship of V. Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf (1993) by Suzanne Raitt, p. 89
“He went on Friends Reunited and Moses got back in touch with him. Thats how old he is!”
Harry Hill (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You're probably like me, when your doorbell rings, your dog goes racing up to the door...but it's never for him, is it? "Who did you think it was going to be, one of your little friends?”
Harry Hill (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The China Incident [of 1937 onwards] has resulted in massive loss of life through the mutual killing of neighboring friends. This is the greatest tragedy of the last one thousand years. Nevertheless this is a holy war to save the peoples of East Asia.... Invoking the power of Avalokitesvara, I pray for the bright future of East Asia.”
Iwane Matsui (1878–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "Zen War Stories" - Page 186 - by Daizen Victoria - History - 2003.
“Human law must rest its authority ultimately upon the authority of that law which is divine. Far from being rivals or enemies religion and law are twin sisters, friends, and mutual assistance. Indeed, these two sciences run into each other.”
James Wilson (1742–1798) said by 1798 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: as quoted in The Works of the Honourable James Wilson (Philadelphia: Bronson and Chauncey, 1804), Vol. I, pp. 106 & 103-105.
“For me, success is being able to give back to your friends, your family, your community, those in need and the world entire.”
Richie Sambora (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I can say in all humility that I have not used my public office to enrich myself, enrich my family or to enrich my friends.”
Manmohan Singh (1932–2024) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Manmohan speaks out: Never used public office to enrich self", Hindustan Times (27 May 2015)
“'Tis sweet, as year by year we lose Friends out of sight, in faith to muse How grows in Paradise our store.”
John Keble (1792–1866) said by 1866 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you.”
Diogenes of Sinope (400–323 BC) said by 323 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Bion insisted on the principle that "The property of friends is common.”
Bion of Borysthenes (born 325 BC) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Diogenes Laërtius, Tertullian
“All the good are friends of one another.”
Zeno of Citium (334–263 BC) said by 263 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why didn't you say something?" "Because, it's not like there's animals I can feed on here." "There's us." "I don't want to feed on my friends' blood." "Why not? We've been here before, haven't we? Last time you were starving, I gave you my blood. It was a little homoerotic, maybe, but I'm secure in my sexuality.”
Cassandra Clare (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Are we long-lost friends, by chance?" "No, we never got along all that well. Long-lost acquaintances? Compadres? My cat liked you.”
Cassandra Clare (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People are brothers. The brotherhood that is not in the way of Allah turns into enmity, for Allah says, "Friends on that day will be foes one to another, save those who kept their duty (to God).”
Muhammad al-Taqi (811–835) said by 835 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but, above all, the power of going out of one's self and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.”
Thomas Hughes (1822–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Deceiving world, that with alluring toys Hast made my life the subject of thy scorn, And scornest now to lend thy fading joys, T'outlength my life, whom friends have left forlorn; How well are they that die ere they be born, And never see thy sleights, which few men shun Till unawares they helpless are undone!”
Robert Greene (dramatist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When did you last bask in the sun, friends? When did you last dare drink from a creek? When did you last risk picking fruit and eating it straight from the tree? What were your doctor’s bills last year? Which of you live in cities where you don’t wear a filtermask? Which of you spent this year’s vacation in the mountains because the sea is fringed with garbage?”
John Brunner (1934–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No man can feel himself alone The while he bravely stands Between the best friends ever known His two good, honest hands.”
Nixon Waterman (1859–1944) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interludes, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).