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“No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.”
Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian
From his book Groucho and Me. It is a variation of a maxim by 17th-century French nobleman François de La Rochefoucauld: "In the adversity of our best friends, we often find something that is not displeasing." (Maxim 99 from Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims, 1665 edition.)
“Sometimes,' she said, 'it takes a woman to bring out the best in a man.”
Christopher McDougall (1962) American journalist and writer
Source: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
“That's the problem with best friends. Sometimes they know you better than you know yourself.”
Cecily von Ziegesar (1970) American writer
Source: Nobody Does it Better
Thom Merrilin
(15 October 1994)
Source: Lord of Chaos
“The best protection any woman can have… is courage.”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) Suffragist and Women's Rights activist
“Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.”
Philip B. Crosby (1926–2001) Quality guru
Philip B. Crosby (1995), Reflections on Quality.
“Is there, friend,' he cries, 'a spot
That knows not Troy's unhappy lot?”
John Conington (1825–1869) British classical scholar
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book I, p. 23