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“As you know, I came to Borno purposely to attend the wedding Fatiha of the daughters of my friend and Elder statesman, Dr. Mohammed Indimi but it is not my first since leaving office. I come from time to time to visit friends here. I was here shortly after Governor Kashim Shettima came into power.”
Abdulmumini Aminu (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nothing’s more dull and negligent Than an old lazy government, That knows no interest of state, But such as serves a present strait, And, to patch up, or shift, will close Or break alike with friends or foes; That runs behindhand, and has spent Its credit to the last extent; And, the first time ’tis at a loss, Has not one true friend, nor one cross.”
Samuel Butler (poet) (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A man that hath friends must show himself friendly; and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.”
The Bible (active around 812) bartlett, Public domain source
“We have been friends together In sunshine and in shade. Since first beneath the chestnut-tree In fancy we played But coldness dwells within thine heart A cloud is on thy brow. We have been friends together,— Shall a light word part us now?”
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton (1808–1877) said by 1877 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How many friends do you really have, seriously? You people...like "I have lots of friends." You don't. You have a lot of shallow relationships with people that talk behind your back and you call that drama a life because you hate your job.”
Marc Maron (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My heart is warm with friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going.”
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) first seen 1921 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Travel", st. 3, Second April, 1921
“We are never ever ever... getting back together. We are never ever ever... getting back together. You go talk to your friends, talk to my friends, talk to me. But we are never ever ever ever... getting back together. Like, ever.”
Taylor Swift (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He used to reason as follows: 'Everything belongs to the gods; the wise are friends of the gods; friends hold all things in common; ergo, everything belongs to the wise.'”
Diogenes of Sinope (400–323 BC) said by 323 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 37, as reported in Diogenes the Cynic: Sayings and Anecdotes as translated by Robin Hard (Oxford: 2012), p. 13
“Human friends, friends in hardship and in life, this is our pure love, love of mother and son.”
Albert Cohen (1895–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Friends I have had both old and young, And ale we drank and songs we sung: Enough you know when this is said, That, one and all, they died in bed. In bed they died and I’ll not go Where all my friends have perished so.”
Charles Henry Webb (1834–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dum vivimus vigilamus, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Mr. Jorrocks then called upon the company in succession for a toast, a song, or a sentiment. Nimrod gave, "The Royal Staghounds"; Crane gave, "Champagne to our real friends, and real pain to our sham friends.”
Robert Smith Surtees (1805–1864) first seen 1838 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities (1838) ch. 12
“Praise your friends, and let your friends praise you.”
James Burgh (1714–1775) said by 1775 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Most men would never tell a girl her Pikachu smells like a crab cake. It's just not done. But they would have no qualms about telling their guy friends. Similarly, if you're a guy and you pull your pants down, and the girl you're with immediately starts text messaging her friends, you have a small penis.”
Chelsea Handler (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Beware of getting involved with people who seem to be able to feel good but have no close friends. They may be witty and fun to be around, but their humor is all put-downs and hostility. If you marry such a person, you will soon be the recipient of that hostile humor and may regret it for the rest of your marriage....Someone who does not have good friends does not know how to love.”
William Glasser (1925–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sometimes I feel I know strangers Better than I know my friends Why must a beginning Be the means to an end?The stones from my enemies These wounds will mend But I cannot survive The roses from my friends.”
Ben Harper (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To hear Delly describe it, I had next to no friends because I intimidated people by being so exceptional. Not true. I had next to no friends because I wasn't friendly.”
Suzanne Collins (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People who live in society have learned how to see themselves in mirrors as they appear to their friends. I have no friends. Is that why my flesh is so naked?”
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Cosmus, Duke of Florence, was wont to say of perfidious friends, that "We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.”
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) said by 1626 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You frequently ask, where are the friends of your childhood, and urge that they shall be brought back to you. As far as I am able to learn, those of your friends who are not in jail are still right there in your native village. You point out that they were wont to share your gambols, If so, you are certainly entitled to have theirs now.”
Stephen Leacock (1869–1944) said by 1944 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the rich leave money to defray the expenses of their funerals, and their memories will be incrusted over with sublime and pleasing thoughts, as monuments of other men are overgrown with moss; for our Friends have no place in the graveyard.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) said by 1862 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our whole nation was blessed to have such men and women serving in our space program. Their loss is deeply felt, especially in this place, where so many of you called them friends. The people of NASA are being tested once again. In your grief, you are responding as your friends would have wished -- with focus, professionalism, and unbroken faith in the mission of this agency.”
George W. Bush (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Friends don't let friends use [gcc] "-W".”
Linus Torvalds (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all. No, from the time when one is sick to death, One is alone, and he dies more alone. Friends make pretence of following to the grave, But before one is in it, their minds are turned And making the best of their way back to life And living people, and things they understand.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.”
Erica Jong (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends.”
Publilius Syrus (101–101 BC) said by 101 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Men met each other with erected look, The steps were higher that they took; Friends to congratulate their friends made haste, And long inveterate foes saluted as they passed.”
John Dryden (1631–1700) first seen 1685 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Threnodia Augustalis (1685), ll. 124–127
“When friends do business, there is no need of contracts. Unfortunately, there are no friends in business.”
Morris West (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You that would judge me, do not judge alone This book or that, come to this hallowed place Where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; Think where man's glory most begins and ends And say my glory was I had such friends.”
William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) said by 1939 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Your friends drag you down, Gordie. Don't you know that?” He pointed at Vern and Teddy, who were standing and waiting for us to catch up. They were laughing about something; in fact, Vern was just about busting a gut. “Your friends do. They’re like drowning guys that are holding onto your legs. You can’t save them. You can only drown with them.”
Stephen King (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't keep any close friends. I don't keep any secrets. I don't need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that's all.”
Bobby Fischer (1943–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have not sought this enormous responsibility, but I will not shirk it. Those who nominated and confirmed me as Vice President were my friends and are my friends. They were of both parties, elected by all the people and acting under the Constitution in their name. It is only fitting then that I should pledge to them and to you that I will be the President of all the people.”
Gerald Ford (1913–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You need friends, especially in the theatre, you need friends. You need people to interchange with, interface with, connect with. Together you’re going to make it, you’re going to do it together, you’re going to put it on, whatever it is.”
“It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends. ~ Ch. 20”
Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951) said by 1951 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You are the oldest democracy of the New World. We are the youngest democracy of the Old World. You, the great democracy of the New World, should take due note of your new sister democracy and should conceive its import. We are friends now, and we will be much closer friends in the future.”
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938) first seen 1927 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address to the American Ambassador to Turkey in 1927. As quoted in: Under Secretary Eugene V. Rostow (April 4, 1968): The United States and Turkey, Partners in World Security. Address made before the American-Turkish So…
“The Jewish people have forged a successful state in their historic homeland. Israel deserves recognition. It deserves normal relations with its neighbors. And friends of the Palestinians do them no favors by ignoring this truth, just as friends of Israel must recognize the need to pursue a two-state solution with a secure Israel next to an independent Palestine.”
Barack Obama (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Who your real friends? We all came from the bottom I'm always blaming you, but what's sad, you not the problem Real friends I guess I get what I deserve, don't I? Word on the streets is they ain't heard from him I guess I get what I deserve, don't I? Talked down on my name, throwed dirt on him.”
Kanye West (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Good friends in hard times and hard friends in good times.”
Max Sparber (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’ve always said there’s no hope without endeavor. Hope has no meaning unless we are prepared to work to realize our hopes and dreams but in order to that we do need to have friends. We need those who believe in us. Friends are those who believe in us and who want to help us whatever it is that we are trying to achieve.”
Aung San Suu Kyi (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Don't drink and drive." That's what they say. They also say "Friends don't let friends drive drunk." Well, which one is it? Somebody's gotta drive.”
“So they pass away: friends, kindred, the dearest-loved, grown people, aged, infants. As we go on the down-hill journey, the mile-stones are grave-stones, and on each more and more names are written; unless haply you live beyond man's common age, when friends have dropped off, and, tottering, and feeble, and unpitied, you reach the terminus alone.”
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) said by 1863 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I would love, in all honesty, to do another album with the Mamas and Papas sometime. I miss them. We're still friends and we want to be friends. Because you break up a successful group, which is really what I did, you know, there's some kind of karma here. I don't feel guilty about it; I left the group because I had to. That was being honest.”
Cass Elliot (1941–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I learned something recently: our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives...”
Paulo Coelho (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To be integrated in one another, each person should annul himself before the others. This is done by each seeing the friends' merits and not their faults. But one who thinks that he is a little higher than the friends can no longer unite with them.”
Baruch Ashlag (1907–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All appointments hurt. Five friends are made cold or hostile for every appointment; no new friends are made. All patronage is perilous to men of real ability or merit. It aids only those who lack other claims to public support.”
Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893) first seen 1892 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to William McKinley (27 December 1892)
“I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends, my god-damned friends, White, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor nights!”
Warren G. Harding (1865–1923) said by 1923 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remark to editor William Alan White, as quoted in Thomas Harry Williams et al. (1959) A History of the United States.
“The question was once put to him, how we ought to behave to our friends; and the answer he gave was, "As we should wish our friends to behave to us.”
Diogenes Laërtius wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Tertullian
“Worse than thieves, murderers, or cannibals, those who offer compromise slow you and sap your vitality while pretending to be your friends. They are not your friends. Compromisers are the enemies of all humanity, the enemies of life itself. Compromisers are the enemies of everything important, sacred, and true.”
L. Neil Smith (1946–2021) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Am I the NRA?" collected in Lever Action (2001) and republished online in 2007.
“One thing that is known about ARPA: you can be heaved off it for supporting the policies of the Department of Defense. Of course that was intended to anger me. If you have an ARPA account, please tell CSTACY that he was successful; now let us see if my Pentagon friends can upset him. Or perhaps some reporter friends. Or both., Or even the House Armed Services Committee.”
Jerry Pournelle (1933–2017) first seen 1985 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: [http://www.stormtiger.org/bob/humor/pournell/story.html How Jerry Pournelle got kicked off the ARPANET from message published on BIX networks/arpanet #3, from jerryp, Tue Jul 9 18:22:01 1985.
“O tell me, friends, while yet we part, And heart can yet be heard of heart, O tell me then, for what is it Our early plan of life we quit; From all our old intentions range, And why does all so wholly change? O tell me, friends, while yet we part!”
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) said by 1861 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This feeling, if genuinely entertained by the Chinese in spite of your direct approaches to them, indicates that, even though we regard ourselves as the friends of China, the Chinese do not regard us as their friends. With the Communist mentality of “whoever is not with them is against them”, this is a significant pointer, of which we have to take due note.”
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (1875–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source