“Peace has a special friend: Joy. Anger has only one friend: Destruction.”
Sri Chinmoy (1931–2007) Indian writer and guru
April 27
Meditations: Food For The Soul (1970)
Context: Anger has an enemy: Peace. Peace has no enemy. Peace has a special friend: Joy. Anger has only one friend: Destruction.
“A warrior has only one true friend: himself.”
David Gemmell book Quest for Lost Heroes
So he feeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks skill, he practises. Where he lacks knowledge, he studies. But above all he must believe. He must believe in the strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul.
Source: Drenai series, Quest for Lost Heroes, Ch. 3
Morris West (1916–1999) Australian writer
Kenji Tanaka quoting a saying he heard from a (presumably fictitious) "very modern Zen master" in Ch. 13, p. 232
The Ringmaster (1991)
“Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.”
Stendhal (1783–1842) French writer
L'amour a toujours été pour moi la plus grande des affaires ou plutôt la seule.
La Vie d'Henri Brulard (1890)
Variant translation: Love has always been the most important business in my life, or rather the only one.
“Don't be a wise guy in here, sir. There's only one wise person in here - and that's Byrd.”
Judith Sheindlin (1942) American lawyer, judge, television personality, and author
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37tcUYWijiw
Quotes from Judge Judy cases, Being funny
“France has no friends, only interests.”
Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970) eighteenth President of the French Republic
Clementine Churchill: "General, you must not hate your friends more than you hate your enemies"
De Gaulle (in English): "France has no friends, only interests." (De Gaulle did not speak specifically of France, but of all nation-states, including Britain. This remark was in line with his saying "Men can have friends, statesmen cannot",*Les hommes peuvent avoir des amis, pas les hommes d'Etat., in Interview, December 9, 1967).
Most famous
“Business has only two functions — marketing and innovation.”
Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant
“Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls;
For, thus friends absent speak.”
John Donne (1572–1631) English poet
Verse Letter to Sir Henry Woton, written before April 1598, line 1
Variant: More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
