Quotes about friendship and relationships
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„I'm a much happier guy than a lot of people think I am.“
— Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994
As quoted in Rolling Stone (1993-01-27).
Interviews (1989-1994), Print

— Muhammad Ali African American boxer, philanthropist and activist 1942 - 2016
Response to Harold Bell, question about his view on friendship in an Interview (video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InSFYdFaS3E.
— G. I. Gurdjieff influential spiritual teacher, Armenian philosopher, composer and writer 1866 - 1949
In Search of the Miraculous (1949)
Context: Man has no individual I. But there are, instead, hundreds and thousands of separate small "I"s, very often entirely unknown to one another, never coming into contact, or, on the contrary, hostile to each other, mutually exclusive and incompatible. Each minute, each moment, man is saying or thinking, "I". And each time his I is different. Just now it was a thought, now it is a desire, now a sensation, now another thought, and so on, endlessly. Man is a plurality. Man's name is legion.

— Dwayne Johnson American actor and professional wrestler 1972
The Rock's return to WWE Raw as host of WrestleMania XXVII (14 February, 2011) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8ejiG5-BtA&feature=related.
„There was a boy
A very strange enchanted boy…“
— Eden ahbez American songwriter and recording artist 1908 - 1995
"Nature Boy" (1948) - Nat King Cole performance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq0XJCJ1Srw - Pat Boone and Nat King Cole duet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NaWYZI2Nzo

— Jerome K. Jerome, book Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
"On Memory".
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)


„And so being young and dipped in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.“
— Edgar Allan Poe American author, poet, editor and literary critic 1809 - 1849

„There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.“
— Thomas Aquinas Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church 1225 - 1274

„Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.“
— Sun Tzu ancient Chinese military general, strategist and philosopher from the Zhou Dynasty -543 - -495 BC
This has often been attributed to Sun Tzu and sometimes to Petrarch. It comes most directly from a line spoken by Michael Corleone in The Godfather Part II (1974), written by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola:
My father taught me many things here. He taught me in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close but your enemies closer.
Niccolò Machiavelli, who is also sometimes credited, wrote on the subject in The Prince:
It is easier for the prince to make friends of those men who were contented under the former government, and are therefore his enemies, than of those who, being discontented with it, were favourable to him and encouraged him to seize it.
Misattributed

„It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.“
— Henry Rollins American singer-songwriter 1961
Variant: It is sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

„Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.“
— Bill Gates American business magnate and philanthropist 1955


„It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.“
— Dolly Parton American singer-songwriter and actress 1946