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I have friends who've tried to break into the UK, who went back with their tails between their legs. Fortunately I've had the opposite experience.

Quote by Michael Bolton about experience

Her friends say she is very funny. At a family dinner, she stood to go, and the footman very properly pulled her chair away. At that moment I asked her a question and she sat down again, except there was no chair. Everyone, including the Queen,...

Quote by Prince Andrew about question, family, moment

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

Quote by Aristophanes about enemies, teaching, common sense, sense, war, man

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

Quote by Aristophanes about friendship, contentment

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Quote by Aristotel about friendship

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Quote by Aristotel about friendship, deeds, weakness, poverty, life, old, olderness

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Quote by Aristotel about bad luck

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes for my sake.

Quote by Aristotel about friendship, man

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

Quote by Aristotel about friendship, existence, things, world

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Quote by Aristotel about truth

To the query, “What is a friend?” his reply was “A single soul dwelling in two bodies”.

Quote by Aristotel about friendship, soul

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Quote by Aristotel about friendship, work

Quinn is such a tremendous soul. He is truly one of the great actors I've ever played opposite. We became great friends.

Quote by Armand Assante about friendship, actors, soul

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about contentment

Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about jealousy, enemies, self-control

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Quote by Augustin de Hipona about dispute, judges, contentment

I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.

Quote by Maria Callas about wish, day, happiness, age, olderness

Real friends are very special, but you have to be careful because sometimes you have a friend and you think they are made of rock, then suddenly you realise they're only made of sand. It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have...

Quote by Maria Callas about rocks, contentment, haven, thinking, real estate, things, life

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Quote by Albert Camus about friendship, opinion, faith, good, good luck, contentment

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Quote by Albert Camus about friendship