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“Anybody can be a bum; all it takes is the right girl, the right bar and the right friends, and you are well… your buddies will see you off. They'll christen your dumpster for you.”
Bill Hicks (1961–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One time me and three friends dropped acid and drove around in my dad's car. He has one of those talking cars, we're tripping, and the car goes, "The door is ajar." We pulled over and thought about that for 12 hours. "How can a door be a jar?" … "Why would they put a jar on a car?" … "Oh man, the freeway's melting!" … "Put it in the jar.”
Bill Hicks (1961–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[One of my friends] was in labor for 36 hours. (I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.)”
Rita Rudner (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, did you?”
Stephen King (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hug and kiss whoever helped get you — financially, mentally, morally, emotionally — to this day. Parents, mentors, friends, teachers. If you're too uptight to do that, at least do the old handshake thing, but I recommend a hug and a kiss. Don't let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely no one gets this far alone.”
Stephen King (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the Earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.”
Stephen King (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If Amsterdam or Leningrad vie for the title of Venice of the North, then Venice - what compliment is high enough? Venice, with all her civilisation and ancient beauty, Venice with her addiction to curious aquatic means of transport, yes, my friends, Venice is the Henley of the South.”
Boris Johnson (born 1964) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Paying through the Doge for Europe", The Daily Telegraph, 11 March 2004, p. 22.
“My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.”
Boris Johnson (born 1964) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Trust me, being sacked isn't all bad", The Daily Telegraph, 2 December 2004, p. 26.
“Think of Britain. Think of the rest of the EU. Think of the future. Think of the desire of your children and your grandchildren to live and work in other European countries; to sell things there, to make friends and perhaps to find partners there.”
Boris Johnson (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If Monsieur Hollande wants to administer punishment beatings to anybody who chooses to escape, rather in the manner of some World War Two movie, then I don't think that is the way forward. I think, actually, it's not in the interests of our friends and our partners.”
Boris Johnson (born 1964) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Brexit: Boris Johnson warns against 'punishment beatings'" BBC News (18 January 2017)
“There's a terrible kind of collaboration as it were, going on between people who think they can block Brexit in Parliament and our European friends”
Boris Johnson (born 1964) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Boris Johnson: Brexit opponents 'collaborating' with EU, BBC News (14 August 2019)
“Let's get Brexit done, but first my friends let's get breakfast done.”
Boris Johnson (born 1964) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'Let's get Brexit done, but first my friends let's get breakfast done' says PM Boris Johnson, Manchester Evening News (13 December 2019)
“I just think it's time for some of our dearest friends to "prenez un grip" and "donnez-moi un break".”
Boris Johnson (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey. And we shall join our hands when we wish, or walk alone when we so desire.”
Ayn Rand (1905–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Friends share music with each other, they don't allow themselves to be divided by a system that says that nobody is supposed to have copies.”
Richard Stallman (born 1953) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: LibrePlanet Keynote Speech (2015) @20:45
“Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.”
Novalis (1772–1801) said by 1801 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As for me, I delight in the every day Way Among mist-wrapped vines and rocky caves Here in the wilderness I am completely free With my friends, the white clouds, idling forever There are roads, but they do not reach the world Since I am mindless, who can rouse my thoughts On a bed of stone I sit, alone in the night While a round moon climbs up Cold Mountain”
“Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction; there is no doubt that he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us.”
Dick Cheney (1941–2025) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address at the Opening Session of the 103rd National Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (August 26, 2002)
“How sweet! You still believe in death... that's just so... quaint. Well, sorry to pop your death bubble, but there's no such thing. So make the best of things. Any real belief in death is just wishful thinking. Don't waste good drugs on killing yourself. Share them with friends and have a party. Or send them to me.”
Chuck Palahniuk (born 1962) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: You Ask The Questions," The Independent Review (2004-03-25)
“Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin to tell you what's sensible and what's foolish, and want you to stick at home all the time. I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody.”
Willa Cather (1873–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As to the having and possessing of things, teach them to part with what they have, easily and freely to their friends, and let them find by experience that the most liberal has always the most plenty, with esteem and commendation to boot, and they will quickly learn to practise it.”
John Locke (1632–1704) said by 1704 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Life after all is made up of eating and sleeping, of meeting and saying good-by to friends, of reunions and farewell parties, of tears and laughter, of having a haircut once in two weeks, of watering a potted flower and watching one’s neighbor fall off his roof.”
Lin Yutang (1895–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He isn't insane, he's simply as trapped in his life as I am in mine. That makes us friends.”
Orson Scott Card (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It occurred to me that if my friends were loathsome, perhaps I needed to learn from my enemies.”
Orson Scott Card (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.”
William James (1842–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Thought and Character of William James (1935) by Ralph Barton Perry, Vol. II, ch. 91
“Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.”
Peter Ustinov (1921–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.”
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) first seen 1818 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Review of Lord Byron's Childe Harold in Yellow Dwarf (2 May 1818), reprinted in The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, ed. A.R. Waller and Arnold Glover (1902-1904)
“There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please — that is as they please or displease us.”
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) said by 1830 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.”
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) said by 1830 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.”
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) said by 1830 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Call a truce, then, to our labours let us feast with friends and neighbours, And be merry as the custom of our caste; For if “faint and forced the laughter,” and if sadness follow after, We are richer by one mocking Christmas past.”
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A garden that one makes oneself becomes associated with one's personal history and that of one's friends, interwoven with one's tastes, preferences, and character, and constitutes a sort of unwritten, but withal manifest autobiography. Show me your garden, provided it be your own, and I will tell you what you are like.”
Alfred Austin (1835–1913) said by 1913 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ah, yet, ere I descend to th' grave May I a small house, and large garden have! And a few friends, and many books, both true, Both wise, and both delightful too! And since Love ne'er will from mee flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as guardian angels are, Only belov'd, and loving me!”
Abraham Cowley (1618–1667) said by 1667 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thus each extream to equal danger tends, Plenty as well as Want can separate Friends;”
Abraham Cowley (1618–1667) said by 1667 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Acquaintance I would have, but when't depends Not on the number, but the choice of friends.”
Abraham Cowley (1618–1667) said by 1667 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now, I know there are still a few who insist that climate change is one big hoax, even a political conspiracy. My friends, these people are so out of touch with science that they believe rising sea levels don’t matter, because, in their view, the extra water is just going to spill out over the sides of a flat Earth.” –”
John Kerry (born 1943) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: December 9, 2015, Paris. Source: http://www.democracynow.org/2015/12/9/it_is_not_enough_despite_promise
“At my age, all my friends, doctors, and attorneys are dead. The good thing about this is that there's no one left who can refute my stories.”
George Burns (1896–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He alienated his friends in the sciences by thanking them extravagantly for scientific advances he had read about in the recent newspapers and magazines, by assuring them, with a perfectly straight face, that life was getting better and better, thanks to scientific thinking.”
Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The part of my life I think I'm most disappointed in is that I have not had the great marriage. And I would have thought that would have happened, because I came from a home—you know, it's not like some of my friends, they get divorced, but their parents were divorced twice or three times. I came from a home where marriage was just incredible. I mean, my parents truly loved each other.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Good Morning America (2 December 1999), as quoted in The World According to Trump (2005) by Ken Lawrence, p. 46
“It's like in golf. A lot of people — I don't want this to sound trivial — but a lot of people are switching to these really long putters, very unattractive. It's weird. You see these great players with these really long putters, because they can't sink three-footers anymore. And, I hate it. I am a traditionalist. I have so many fabulous friends who happen to be gay, but I am a traditionalist.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All my friends who work out all the time, they’re going for knee replacements, hip replacements — they’re a disaster”
Donald Trump (born 1946) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 4 October 2015 interview with New York Times
“Hillary Clinton meets in secret with international banks to plot the destruction of U.S. sovereignty in order to enrich these global financial powers, her special interest friends and her donors.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You know, I do the weave. You know what the weave is? I’ll talk about like nine different things, and they all come back brilliantly together and it’s like, and friends of mine that are, like, English professors, they say, ‘It’s the most brilliant thing I’ve ever seen.’ But the fake news, you know what they say? ‘He rambled.’”
Donald Trump (born 1946) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Critics Call Hilarious BS On Donald Trump's New Brag About His Speeches", Yahoo News / Huffington Post (September 2, 2024)
“My friends will get hurt.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Trump Yelled 'My Friends Will Get Hurt' at Marjorie Taylor Greene for Threatening to Name Epstein Abusers, She Claims (December 29, 2025)
“If they want to come in and build the plant and hire you and hire your friends and your neighbors, that’s great. I love that. Let China come in, let Japan come in. They are and they’ll be building plants, but they’re using our labor.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) first seen 2026 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ‘The only thing that terrifies me is BYD’: Politicians quake at Chinese EVs" Politico (May 13, 2026)
“Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est. (Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.)”
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) first seen 1827 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Said on his deathbed, 1827 [citation needed]
“But my friends, my brothers and sisters of the Pacific, we know who we are. We carry in our hearts the knowledge that we are the bearers of a proud legacy that surely marks us as people of strength, and courage and will. We have survived in our aquatic continent through many centuries.”
Kamisese Mara (1920–2004) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Opening address, Pacific Vision festival, Auckland, New Zealand (26 July 1999).
“Unfortunate is he who cannot gain a few sincere friends during his life and more unfortunate is the one who has gained them and then lost them (through his deeds).”
Ali (599–661) said by 661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He who is deserted by friends and relatives will often find help and sympathy from strangers.”
Ali (599–661) said by 661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lack of friends means, stranger in one's own country.”
Ali (599–661) said by 661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source