Friend

Famous quotes containing the word friend:

    For not many men, the proverb saith,
    Can love a friend whom fortune prospereth
    Unenvying; and about the envious brain
    Cold poison clings, and doubles all the pain
    Life brings him.
    Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)

    Men always sell strawberries, women, blackberries, your all- knowing Creole friend says. ‘Why?’ you ask. ‘Ah, it has always been that way.’ When you get to know Creoles better, you realize that the phrase ‘It has always been that way’ justifies everything.
    —For the City of New Orleans, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    Is it not ironic, oh my husband? Your wife an adulteress. Your mother an adulteress. Your uncle an adulterer. Your friend an adulterer. Do you not find that amusing, dear Nicholas?
    Richard Matheson (b. 1926)