“A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.”
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Maya Angelou
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Letter to My Daughter
Source: Letter to My Daughter
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American author and poet 1928–2014Related quotes
“May I never sit on a tribunal where my friends shall not find more favor from me than strangers.”
Themistocles
(-524–-459 BC) Athenian statesman
As quoted by Plutarch, in Lives as translated by J. Langhorne and W. Langhorne (1850) http://books.google.com/books?id=jaBfAAAAMAAJ, p. 225
Ellen DeGeneres
(1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress
And that's when I got the idea of touring.
Here and Now
“Friends, we're hardly strangers at meeting danger.”
XII. 209 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“There are no strangers in here, just friends you haven't met…”
Roald Dahl
(1916–1990) British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot and screenwriter
“Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.”
Shirley MacLaine
(1934) American actress
Don't Fall Off the Mountain http://books.google.com/books?id=f6yc35pUhEwC&q=%22The+more+I+traveled+the+more+I+realized+that+fear+makes+strangers+of+people+who+should+be+friends%22&pg=PA160#v=onepage (1970)
Variant: The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
“There are no strangers, only friends you have not met yet.”
W.B. Yeats
(1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
“The stranger is simply a friend I haven't met yet.”
Catherine Doherty
(1896–1985) Religious order founder; Servant of God
Source: Poustinia (1975), Ch. 15
Albert Camus
(1913–1960) French author and journalist
Widely attributed, but likely apocryphal. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/08/23/friend/ Researchers have searched for this quote unsuccessfully in Camus' extant works.
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