[Gumball 3000- Jackass Episodes]
“The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.”
Aristotle book Nicomachean Ethics
Book IX, 1168b.1
Variants: My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Nicomachean Ethics
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.
On Bill Gates as quoted in "Creating Jobs" in The New York Times (12 January 1997) http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04EED71139F931A25752C0A961958260&sec=technology&spon=&pagewanted=all <br class="br">1990s
“A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.”
Tom Bissell (1974) American journalist
William Paley (1743–1805) Christian apologist, natural theologian, utilitarian
Vol. I, Book II, Ch. V.
The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy (1785)
“When God wants to drive a person insane, he grants that person's every wish.”
Paulo Coelho book The Valkyries
Source: The Valkyries
Diogenes of Sinope (-404–-322 BC) ancient Greek philosopher, one of the founders of the Cynic philosophy
Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 46, 69
As quoted in Encarta Book of Quotations (2000) edited by Bill Swainson, p. 274
Quoted by Diogenes Laërtius
Variant: If only it were as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.
Ben Garrison American political cartoonist
Lakeside Cartoonist a Player on the Political World Stage http://www.dailyinterlake.com/archive/article-c3636174-3b30-11e6-8943-1f17ebd0c321.html (June 25, 2016)
