Quotes about friend
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“I never say the things I really want to. If I did, I'd have no friends.”

Chelsea Handler (1975) American comedian, actress, author and talk show host

Source: My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

“No woman ever hates a man
for being in love with her;
but mainly a woman hates a
man for being her friend.”

Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet

Love, Hate

“In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.”

William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair

Source: Vanity Fair

Home, Parent

“You're lucky to have a friend who will kill for you."

So. I once had a friend who died for me, and now one who killed for me. Why didn't I feel lucky?”

Carrie Vaughn (1973) American writer

Source: Kitty Takes a Holiday

Feeling

“do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”

Robert Greene book The 48 Laws of Power

Source: The 48 Laws of Power

Friendship, Powerful, For Friend, For Bestfriend

“So you’ve made a friend. How sad for them.”

Alyson Nöel book Shadowland

Source: Shadowland

Sadness

“You have never tasted freedom friend, or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.”

Steven Pressfield Gates of Fire

Dienekes p. 60
Gates of Fire (1998)
Source: Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae

Freedom

“I think hiccup cures were really invented for the amusement of the patient's friends.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Source: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

Thinking

“Children need close friends to help them grow up, to discover things about themselves and about life. They also need close friends to keep them sane”

Cecelia Ahern book Love, Rosie

Source: Love, Rosie

Life, Children, Help

“The light of the Christmas star to you. The warmth of home and hearth to you. The cheer and goodwill of friends to you. The hope of a child-like heart to you. The joy of a thousand angels to you. The love of the Son and God's peace to you.”

Sherryl Woods (1944) American writer

Source: An O'Brien Family Christmas

Love, God, Peace, Hope

“I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

Failure, Success

“Superglue after duct tape a girl's best friend.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Faefever

Girl

“Have you ever noticed that idiots have a lot of friends? It's just an observation.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

“We clung to books and to our friends; they reminded us that we had another part to us.”

Annie Barrows book The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Source: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Books, Parting

“All you need to know is that I have an old enemy pretending to be me. (Acheron)
Why? (Talon)
Well, it obviously isn’t to be nice to me and win over my friends, now is it? (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon Night Embrace

Source: Night Embrace

“when you judge the power that is in a person, you must judge their capacities as both friend and as enemy.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

Personality

“Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.”

Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic

Marriage, World, Indifference

“When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

Attributed

Personality

“Do you fall in love often?"

Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.”

Jeanette Winterson book Gut Symmetries

Source: Gut Symmetries

Love, Books, Dogs, Cats

“They're betting on how long I'll live!" I burst out. "They're not my friends!"

"Well, try and pretend!" snaps Effie. Then she composes herself and beams at me. "See, like this. I'm smiling at you even though you're aggravating me.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Smile

“Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

Family

“He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you'd never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend you'd never really had”

Tad Williams book City of Golden Shadow

Source: City of Golden Shadow

“Mostly you meet friends when traveling by accident, like by sitting next to them on the train, or in a restaurant, or in a holding cell.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Travel, Training

“Enemies are a given. Friends are not.”

James Frey (1969) American screenwriter and media presenter

The Calling

“Whenever I see her, we laugh enough to last for the month. She's my best friend, and someday when we're old enough I'm going to talk her into staying here forever.”

Grace Lin book Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

Source: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

“Rose lit up. “I’d totally help with that. Sydney’s my friend, and I’ve got experience with—”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Bloodlines: Silver Shadows

Help

“You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way.

- Breeze”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Final Empire

Stupidity, Way

“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.”

Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer and dramatist

Life, For Men

“Why limit yourself to just one best friend?”

Lisi Harrison (1970) Canadian writer

“True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

Heart, Heartbreaking, Friendship, Missing You

“Larry is back in town… The wedding is set for October. Tammy is threatening to have me in the wedding. Some friends they are.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Cerulean Sins

Source: Cerulean Sins

Wedding

“Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?”

Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums

Source: The Dharma Bums

Love, Life, Angels

“Do not let your anger misguide you, my friend.”

Tess Uriza Holthe American writer

When the Elephants Dance

Anger

“It's said a friend is a person who walks in when everyone else walks out.”

Melissa de la Cruz (1971) American writer

Source: Girl Stays in the Picture

Personality

“I've sucked way too much cement for this year. Bad juju rising off them city sidewalks. I need to babble with a brook or two, inhale starlight, make friends with some trees.”

Tom Robbins Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

Source: Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

Way, Tree

“A friend tells you what you want to hear; a best friend tells you the truth.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Truth

“In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Box

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”

Alice Walker (1944) American author and activist

Silence, Personality, Deep, Friendship

“Do you miss her?'
'Who? Emma? Of course. Every day. She was my best friend.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

“The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.”

Robert Southey (1774–1843) British poet

Loss, Time

“Never injure a friend, even in jest.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

“For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Love, Health, Food, Light

“Oh yeah. It would be terrible for you to have only one working fang. Your friends might want to call you Lefty”

Kerrelyn Sparks (1955) American writer

Source: How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire

“Leeda knew friends never turned out to be what you expected. They came and went in waves, pulling away and coming back, leaving you feeling safe one minute and lost the next.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Peaches

Feeling

“I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.”

Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) New Zealand author

Quoted in Katherine Mansfield: The Memories of L.M. (1972; digitized 2006), p. 178. L.M. was Lesley Morris, the pseudonym of Mansfield's friend Ida Baker.

Hope, Future

“Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats—let you know if you’re off course. But it ain’t always possible…”

Rebecca Wells book Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Source: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

“But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself.”

David Levithan Boy Meets Boy

Source: Boy Meets Boy

Thinking

“I felt very close to God…. My friends say that's because I was always on my knees.”

Armistead Maupin (1944) American writer

God

“What are friends for? They are the ultimate reflection of yourself. Always surround yourself with people who inspire you and return the favor by giving them the best of you.”

Jenny McCarthy (1972) American model, comedian, actress, author, activist, and game show host

Source: Love, Lust & Faking It: The Naked Truth About Sex, Lies, and True Romance

People

“If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.”

Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)

Despite being quoted as a remark of Truman by both George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton, this apparently originates from a line in the portrayal of Truman in the play Give ‘Em Hell, Harry (1975) by Samuel Gallu : "You want a friend in life, get a dog!" This was later paraphrased by Maureen Dowd (10 March 1989): "If you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog." But prior to Gallu's play their is no actual indication Truman ever said this, according to investigations by David Rothman In "Google Book Search, Harry S. Truman and the get-a-dog quote: Presidential library unable to confirm it" (28 June 2008) http://www.teleread.com/books/google-book-search-harry-s-truman-and-the-get-a-dog-quote-presidential-library-unable-to-confirm-it/ <br class="br">Misattributed

Dogs

“She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music.
She had no friends, yet she was the friendliest person in school.”

Jerry Spinelli book Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

School, Music, Dance, Personality

“Now isn't that nice!' said the old lady. 'If cousins are the right kind, they're best of all: kinder than sisters and brothers, and closer than friends.”

Elizabeth Enright book Gone-Away Lake

Source: Gone-Away Lake

Sister

“And I was holding someone who was destined to be my best friend, or possibly my worst enemy.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

“A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts and to the singing of a bird outside his window and to the far-away voice of the sea.”

Axel Munthe book The Story of San Michele

Preface, 1928
The Story of San Michele (1929)

Books, Hope, Music, Bird

“There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.”

Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist

Books, Age, Reading, Friendship

“common enemies make enemies become friends!”

Eric Jerome Dickey (1961) American author

Resurrecting Midnight

“Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully and digested fully, unlike that lunch you are bolting down, little friend.”

Brian Jacques Redwall

Source: Redwall

Wisdom, Knowledge

“An adult friend of Lincoln's: "Life was to him a school.”

Doris Kearns Goodwin book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Source: Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Life, School

“Martin is your best friend, isn't he?' a sweet and well-intentioned girl once said when both of us were present: it was the only time I ever felt awkward about this precious idea, which seemed somehow to risk diminishment if it were uttered aloud.”

Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist

Source: Hitch-22: A Memoir

Girl, Idea, Time

“I'm not usually an eavesdropper, but i dare you to try not listening if you hear your best friend talking about you to an adult.”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

“Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say.”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

“Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.”

John Steinbeck book The Grapes of Wrath

Source: The Grapes of Wrath

Death, Sleep

“But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things.”

Agatha Christie book Murder on the Orient Express

Source: Murder on the Orient Express

Nature, Personality

“As Harry puts it, men and women can never be friends because 'the sex part always gets in the way.”

Nora Ephron (1941–2012) Film director, author screenwriter

Source: When Harry Met Sally

Women, Men, Sex, Way

“Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.”

Robert Greene book The 48 Laws of Power

Variation: Defend me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies myself The quote has been attributed to Voltaire, who was using it after Villars. Quoted in Connie Robertson, Dictionary of Quotations, 1998
Source: The 48 Laws of Power

“Who are your friends? Do they believe in you? Or do they stunt your growth with ridicule and disbelief? If the latter, you haven't friends. Go find some.”

Ray Bradbury book Zen in the Art of Writing

Source: Zen in the Art of Writing

“Jace sighed. "Shall we join our annoying, voyeuristic friends?"
"Unfortunately, that's the only kind of friends we have.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“Winning friends begins with friendliness.”

Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Friendship, For Friend, For Bestfriend

“What's a friend for if not to face almost certain death with, eh?”

Katie MacAlister (1964) Author

Source: Zen and the Art of Vampires

Death

“Friends--or lovers--are not always available to each other. Inner turmoils can cause us to be unhearing when someone needs us, to need to receive understanding when we should be giving understanding.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

Lovers, Understanding

“Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.”

Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician

Family, Christmas, Christmas

“The most significant gifts are the ones most easily overlooked. Small, everyday blessings: woods, health, music, laughter, memories, books, family, friends, second chances, warm fireplaces, and all the footprints scattered throughout our days.”

Sue Monk Kidd (1948) Novelist

Health, Books, Family, Music

“A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Love, Night

“I never consider a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

As quoted in The Life and Writings of Thomas Jefferson : Including All of His Important Utterances on Public Questions (1900) by Samuel E. Forman, p. 429
Posthumous publications

Religion

“I know how difficult it can be when the image you've had of something doesn't match its reality; when the friend beside you turns into a monster.”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

Reality

“Take it as a token. Because tomorrow when I go, I want you to believe friends are possible.”

Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer

Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead

“If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you.”

Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author

“I love you: You imagine hearing the words from someone not related to you, someone not your best friend, but when someone you love, someone you dream about, actually says them, it makes your body melt and your breath get caught in your chest.”

Sarah Mlynowski (1977) Novelist

Source: Ten Things We Did

Love, Dreams, Imagination

“People learn twenty-five percent from their teacher, twenty-five percent from listening to themselves, twenty-five percent from their friends, and twenty-five percent from time.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: The Witch Of Portobello

People, Learning, Teachers, Time

“Tell me the name of your best friend. (Sunshine)
Wulf Tryggvason. (Talon)
Oh my God, you just answered a question. I think the world may end over it. (Sunshine)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon Night Embrace

Source: Night Embrace

God, World, Question, Thinking

“He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgement.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Moveable Feast

Source: A Moveable Feast

Beauty, Loyalty

“I can’t name the poison that’s killing your friend. But the one that’s killing you is called hope.”

Scott Lynch book The Republic of Thieves

Source: The Republic of Thieves

Hope

“She knew whose love she doubted. It wasn't her parents' and it wasn't her friends: It was her own.”

Ann Brashares book Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

Source: Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

Love, Parent

“Do they choose to be so dense? Were they born that way? I have no friends. I have nothing. I say nothing. I am nothing.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

Way

“Besides, all my New York friends were in the negative, nightmare position of putting down society and giving their tired bookish or political or psychoanalytical reasons, but Dean just raced in society, eager for bread and love.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

Love

“A serious mistake in a nightie,
A grave disappointment all round
Is all that you'll get from th'Almighty,
Is all that you'll get underground.
Oh he said: "If you lay off the crumpet
I'll see you alright in the end.
Just hang on until the last trumpet.
Have faith in me, chum – I'm your friend."”

James Fenton (1949) poet

"God, a Poem", line 5, from Children in Exile (1983)

Faith, Disappointment

“Kunti, or Pritha, is the daughter of Shoora of the Vrishnis, given away when just a child to her father’s childless friend Kuntibhoja. This rankles deep within her; she voices her resentment pointedly both before and after the Kurukshetra war. Growing up in Kuntibhoja’s apartments, she finds no mother; Kuntibhoja himself hands her over, in adolescence, to the vagaries of the eccentric, w:Irascibleirascible and fiery sage Durvasa. Should she displease the sage, she is warned, it will dishonour her guardian’s clan as well as her own.”

Kunti character from Indian epic Mahabharata

Five Holy Virgins, Five Sacred MythsOf Kunti and Satyawati Sexually Assertive Women of the Mahabharata

War, Daughters

“When the ceremony ended Anne and I stayed on the field to greet friends, many of whom had traveled to share the ceremony with us. In one respect it was a difficult day at the end of a difficult month. But in the broader view of life, it was a magical evening at the end of an incredible journey we shared. We walked back over to the quarters we would move out of a few days later, and found friends in the yard and almost every room. At one point I saw Mike Hall, Charlie Flynn, Shawn Lowery, and Casey Welch standing in the fading summer light. I thought of my father, of my first day at West Point, and of our cold Christmas Eve flight over Afghanistan seven months before. The final words of my last speech in uniform, spoken just an hour before were repeated in my mind: "If I had it to do over again, I'd do some things in my career differently, but not many. I believed in people, and I still believe in them. I trusted and I still trust. I cared and I still care. I wouldn't have it any other way… To the young leaders of today and tomorrow, it's a great life. Thank you."”

Stanley A. McChrystal (1954) American general

Closing words, p. 394
My Share Of The Task (2013)

Life, People, Way, Travel

“Education…is a companion which no misfortunes can depress, no clime destroy, no enemy alienate, no despotism enslave: at home a friend, abroad an introduction, in solitude a solace, in society an ornament: it chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once a grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.”

Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright

Though sometimes attributed to Addison, this actually comes from a speech delivered by the Irish lawyer Charles Phillips in 1817, in the case of O'Mullan v. M'Korkill, published in Irish Eloquence: The Speeches of the Celebrated Irish Orators (1834) pp. 91-92.
Misattributed

Education, Home, Solitude

“Thou first, best friend that Heav'n assigns below
To sooth and sweeten all the cares we know.”

Samuel Rogers (1763–1855) British poet

I, l. 85-6.
The Pleasures of Memory (1792)

“Nonsense. I think that the problem isn't with them downloading the song, the problem is when they buy the record and when they burn a million discs off their computer for all their friends. That's the reason why every single band, no matter who you are, your sales are chopped by fifty to sixty percent after your first week out. It's a huge problem, but instead of giving people more reasons to buy the product, they don't worry about that. I think you have to enhance the value of the product. Like when KISS was putting out records, their 'Alive' record sold so well because it made you feel like you were part of the concert experience. There was also an actual program in the thing, all these pictures, the KISS Army stuff… There's so much stuff that added to the value of that package. There wasn't a KISS fan out there who didn't want the whole thing, because everything that came along with the music was so worthwhile to them. It's not rocket-science, this stuff.”

David Draiman (1973) American singer and songwriter

Disturbed's David Draiman Offers 'Solution' To Illegal Music Downloading http://www.webcitation.org/64oENbO3B, Blabbermouth.net, 11 July 2003)

People, Music, Feeling, Kiss

“The now famous slogan 'keep calm and carry on' poster from 1939 was designed as a motivational poster for people living in cities expecting to be bombed by the Nazis. But the UK wasn't just 'keeping calm': we had taken a stand like no other country in the world and declared war on a barbaric regime which was a global threat to peace and security. Today, as we wait to hear news from Manchester following the slaughter and maiming of innocent children, we have people calling for us to do nothing. But it's not the same 'carry on' as in 1939: they want us to accept terror attacks as a part of life we should now accept. Well, I don't accept it. How many people are we going to sacrifice on the alter (sic) of political correctness before we build up the courage to confront what most people will happily admit to their friends and family: that we are facing a continuing threat from radical Islam which hashtags and tea lights will not stop?”

Jane Collins (1962) British politician

Jane Collins MEP responds to terror attacks in Manchester http://jane-collins.org/news.php?id=79. Item on official website (May 23, 2017).

Life, War, Children, People

“Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long Absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: Absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.”

Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet

Letter, written in collaboration with Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, to Jonathan Swift, December 14, 1725.

Men, Affliction

“I was born a vegetarian. … I feel there is no need to cause another living thing pain or harm. There are so many other things we can eat. I have never eaten meat in my life, and I’m 5 foot 10 and not exactly wasting away. A wise man once said, ‘Animals are my friends, and I’m not in the habit of eating my friends.’ That is exactly how I feel.”

Joss Stone (1987) English singer and actress

Reported in "Introducing Joss Stone’s Vegetarian PSA", in peta2.com (13 March 2007) http://www.peta2.com/heroes/introducing-joss-stone-vegetarian-psa/. Also quoted in "Soul diva Stone in veggie ad", in Mirror.co.uk (15 March 2007) http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/soul-diva-stone-in-veggie-ad-458507.

Life, Pain, Feeling, Animals

“When I face an issue of great import that cleaves both constituents and colleagues, I always take the same approach. I engage in deep deliberation and quiet contemplation. I wait to the last available minute and then I always vote with the losers. Because, my friend, the winners never remember and the losers never forget.”

Everett Dirksen (1896–1969) United States Army officer

As quoted in Business Wit & Wisdom (2005) by Richard S. Zera, p. 164

Waiting, Forgetting

“I care for riches, to make gifts
To friends, or lead a sick man back to health
With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth
For daily gladness; once a man be done
With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.”

Euripidés Electra

Electra (413 BC)

Hunger, Health, Wealth

“A gift is the transfer of a good without an explicit specification of a quid pro quo. The good can be a tangible thing or money, but it also can be intangible, as in the form of time, attention, information or knowledge. A present is a gift and so may be the attention that one person ‘gives’ another, or the time that a person donates to an art institute as a volunteer. Usually a gift entails reciprocity: the giver expects something in return for the gift given. Friends expect friendly gestures in return for their friendly gestures; donors expect some form of appreciation or another; and those who give presents at Christmas expect to receive presents in return. The key to understanding the phenomenon of the gift is the nature of the reciprocity involved”

Arjo Klamer (1953) Dutch columnist, economist and politician

Arjo Klamer, " 30 Gift economy http://www.klamer.nl/docs/1dec_2002.pdf." A handbook of cultural economics (2003): 243.

Money, Art, Understanding, Nature

“Mr. Jorrocks then called upon the company in succession for a toast, a song, or a sentiment. Nimrod gave, "The Royal Staghounds"; Crane gave, "Champagne to our real friends, and real pain to our sham friends."”

Robert Smith Surtees (1805–1864) English writer

Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities (1838) ch. 12

Pain, Success

“I have always found him to be a proud, honourable man, loyal, true, persevering, principled, caring and committed but tough and a person who lost friends easily. On behalf of the Government but in particular on behalf of the Fianna Fáil Party, I thank him for his distinguished years of service to his constituents and his country.”

Bertie Ahern (1951) Irish politician, 10th Taoiseach of Ireland

Speaking about Ray Burke (who was subsequently jailed for six months for tax evasion) after Burke's resignation. Resignation of Member: Statements. http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/D/0481/D.0481.199710070023.html Dáil Éireann - Volume 481, 1997-10-07

Personality, Country

“Friend Ralph, thou hast
Outrun the constable at last.”

Samuel Butler (poet) (1612–1680) poet and satirist

Canto III, line 1367
Source: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)

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