“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
“If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you.”
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“Count me not your friend but the enemy of your enemies.”
Source: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), The Green Pearl (1985), Chapter 8, section 3 (p. 480)
“I am starting to believe you are not intending to count me amongst your friends.”
Last words, said just before he was executed by a firing squad during the spanish civil war.
Source: http://www.generalisimofranco.com/caidos/varios/00003.htm Eduardo Palomar Baró, Pedro Muñoz Seca (1881 - 1936)
“So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.”
Donec eris sospes, multos numerabis amicos:
tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris.
I, ix, 5
Tristia (Sorrows)
“Singer worth their while must watch it;
Always count your dotted crotchet.”
Rappel 1910
“If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”
As quoted in Newsweek (17 October 1977)
