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English poet 1683–1765Related quotes
“Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.”
John Wooden (1910–2010) American basketball coach
Source: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
“A true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn't exist, guess what? Neither do true friends.”
Scott Dikkers (1965) American comic writer
Source: You Are Worthless: Depressing Nuggets of Wisdom Sure to Ruin Your Day
Stanley Lombardo (1943) Philosopher, Classicist
Book VI, lines 183–189; Odysseus to Nausicaa.
Translations, Odyssey (2000)
“True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart”
Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist
“You are worse than twenty foes, you poisonous friend!”
Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights
Isabella Linton to Catherine Earnshaw (Ch. X).
Wuthering Heights (1847)
“An open foe I much prefer
To a dear friend that scratches.”
Antoine-Vincent Arnault (1766–1834) French dramatist
Volume I., 5. — "Le Chien et le Chat".
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 74.
Fables (1802)
“His courage foes, his friends his truth proclaim.”
John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel
Pt. I line 357.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
“Silence is a true friend who never betrays.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher