“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Actually due to Harris Weinstock: "My best friend is the man who can bring out of me my best, and your best friend is the one who tends to bring out the best in you" (May 1914) Attributed to Henry Ford as early as 1948.
Misattributed
“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
“My best friends are my memories
They're the only ones that save me from misery”
Paul Rey (1992) Swedish singer
Source: Song Tear me down
Jerome David Salinger (1919–2010) American writer
As quoted in The Twentieth Century (1972) by Caroline Farrar Ware, p. 429
“You’re my best friend, Shmuel,’ he said. ‘My best friend for life.”
John Boyne (1971) Irish novelist, author of children's and youth fiction
Source: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
“Some of my best friends never agree with me politically.”
Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)
Statement to a group of four congress freshmen (2 July 1947), as quoted in The Memoirs of Richard Nixon, p. 44
“I sucked blood from one of my best friends”
Darren Shan book Cirque du Freak
Source: A Living Nightmare
“My best friend is he who rights my wrongs or reproaches my mistakes.”
José de San Martín (1778–1850) Argentine general and independence leader
Mi mejor amigo es el que enmienda mis errores o reprueba mis desaciertos.
Quoted in Historia Jeneral de Chile : Pt. 9. Organizacion de la Republica, 1820-1833 (1894) by Diego Barros Arana, p. 298
Mohammed Alkobaisi (1970) Iraqi Islamic scholar
Understanding Islam, "Morals and Ethics" http://vod.dmi.ae/media/96716/Ep_03_Morals_and_Ethics Dubai Media
John Boyne (1971) Irish novelist, author of children's and youth fiction
Source: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas