“I was a man before I was a king, and no true man walks away when a friend needs him.”
Source: Fall of Kings
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British author of heroic fantasy 1948–2006Related quotes
“It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 1.
“No, Your Majesty, I do not like kings, but I do like a man behind a king when I find him.”
Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) American businessman and philanthropist
Source: Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, 1920, Chapter XXIX
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919–1980) Shah of Iran
Page 146
Publications, The Shah's Story (1980), On world leaders and statesmen
“A man needs a friend not to flatter him, but to strengthen him at his weak points.”
E. W. Howe (1853–1937) Novelist, magazine and newspaper editor
Country Town Sayings [An anthology of witty sentences by the author] (1911), p81.
Robert Smith Surtees (1805–1864) English writer
Source: Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour (1853), Ch. 40
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), Blowin' in the Wind
