I truly believe that if you have more friends than books, you have too many friends. Or not enough books. Probably both.
My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my work with the MC5 and my friend Livingston Taylor.
It had been in a Paris house, with many people around, and my dear friend Jules Darboux, wishing to do me a refined aesthetic favor, had touched my sleeve and said, "I want you to meet-" and led me to Nina, who sat in the corner of a couch, her body ...
The worse thing I have done in my life is Diary writing.... a wastage of time, wastage of papers filled with some imaginary feelings and bunch of silly activities done each day.... I cant feel any glimpse of appreciable work done by me, as whatever r...
[first lines] Charlie: [voice-over] Dear Friend. I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn't try to sleep with that person at that party even though you could have. Please don't try to figure out who I am. I don't want y...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: [of his great opera "Figaro"] Nine performances! Nine, that's all it's had! And withdrawn! Antonio Salieri: I know, I know, it's outrageous. Still, if the public doesn't like one's work, one has to accept the fact gracefully....
Before borrowing money from a friend decide which you need most.
Your friend will swallow your mistakes, your enemy will present them on a plate.
Go often to the house of a friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Your friend chooses pebbles for you and your enemy counts your faults.
The priest's friend loses his faith, the doctor's his health, and the lawyer's his fortune.
If you want to know who your friends are, lie by the roadside and pretend to be drunk.
You may laugh at a friend's roof; don't laugh at his sleeping accommodation.
If you have a friend who is a doctor, then send him to your enemy's house.
Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.
Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.
Go often to the house of a friend, for weeds soon choke up an unused path.
Tell your friend a lie -- and if he keeps it a secret, tell him the truth.
If you marry a young woman, make sure your friends stay outside.
My dear, it is very nice here, every day two or three persons are stabbed by soldiers in the city; there are daily arrests, but apart from these it is pretty gay..
Beside me, Philippe and Meg hold hands. He murmurs something that sounds like, "my dear leetle mongoose." I wish he'd turn back into a frog and hop away.
