Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel. – William Shakespeare Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 3. Polonius wisely counsels his son to hold on tightly to those friends who have proven to trustworthy.
We are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves – such a friend ought to be – do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures. – Mary Shelley Frankenstein, Robert Walton in “Letter 4”. Victor Frankenstein is telling Walton that we are incomplete creatures and not completed until another half – a friend – is found.
Dear friend Corona, Your letter made my wife and I feel so wonderful! Thank you for being such a good friend. Friends make their friends feel good when they are down…I thought this typewriter would suit you. Ask a grown up how it works. And use it to write me back. P.S. You got a friend in ME! – Tom Hanks In letter to Australian boy who wrote to him saying he was being bullied in school because his name Corona.
A cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around. – John Lubbock The Pleasures of Life.
A friend…awakens your life in order to free the wild possibilities within you. – John O’Donohue Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom.
I have been and always shall be your friend. – Mr. Spock Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982 Film).
Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. – George Orwell Animal Farm. Chapter 1. Old Major.
Old sport. – F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby, Chapter 3. Jay Gatsby to Nick. This friendly term of endearment between gentlemen in early 20th century was adopted by Gatsby as his catchphrase. It is part of his attempts to pass himself as something he is not, belonging to the old money set.
I hold that establishing mixed schools will not harm the white race. I am their friend. I said in Mississippi, and I say here, and I say everywhere, that I would abandon the Republican party if it went into any measures of legislation really damaging to any portion of the white race, but it is not in the Republican party to do that. – Hiram Rhodes Revels
My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of ‘Dawson’s Creek.’ I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, ‘Did I really have to do all that studying?’ – Gabriel Mann
Fourth of July. My birthday is July first, and my best friend’s birthday is July fifth, so it’s always been a favorite holiday. It’s all about having a cooler full of sodas, hot dogs, and just hanging out and shooting off firecrackers, being low-key, watching the fireworks. – Hilarie Burton
To the house of a friend if you’re pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all things admire; You must pay with observance the price of your treat, You must eat what is praised, and must praise what you eat. – George Crabbe
Spanish alone was understood or spoken here; our friend, the countryman, stuck to us most nobly, he understood us not a bit better than the rest but saw that we were in distress and would not desert us. – George Grey
A friend of mine and I would go to this dirty little bar in Toronto that has karaoke every Tuesday night, and one night, we noticed that the only other person in there was Derek Jeter. – Hannah Simone
Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster – Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend. – Hunter S. Thompson
I was persuaded to see ‘The Muppets’ by a friend, and I regretted it. A very boring hour and a half. – Greg Rutherford
Yes, I first visited Korphe village, Braldu valley, Baltistan, Pakistan, after failing to summit K2 in 1993, and met Haji Ali, a long time dear mentor and friend. My second visit to Korphe was in 1994. – Greg Mortenson
Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer… in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend. – Hunter S. Thompson
There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone. – Henry David Thoreau
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for. – Henry Home Introduction to the Art of Thinking
But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend! – George Canning
I never go on Facebook! I like, haven’t confirmed anybody to be my friend on Facebook. I have lots of friends; I’m just really bad at Facebook. – Hope Solo
I think the world of Dave Griffin. I worked with him in Phoenix, got to know him very well, and consider him a friend. – Grant Hill
