Maxwell Jacob Friedman Quotes

I heard my mother talking badly of me to people who were talking badly of me in her salon. That's probably the thing that I'm most sensitive of in all my friendships and my relationships. I just... I just can't take that. I'm comfortable with enemies, but I can't take it from friends.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

I am not afraid of my enemies, but by God, you must look out when you get among your friends.

Theses officers were good friends, so it must have been a terrible argument, because the one who played chess with my father was so angry that he walked over to the dentist's house and got the dentist out of bed and shot him.

I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.

I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I'd dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, 'What's wrong with you? Gross!'

Be careful of your enemy once and of your friend a thousand times, for a double crossing friend knows more about what harms you.

I tolerate lots of people I have no patience or respect for. Then, as soon as I can, I rat on them.

The Undertaker's beaten me down pretty bad quite a few times.

The treachery of a friend is worse than that of a foe.

The one thing worse than an enemy is a friend turned false.

It is often our best friends who throw us down.

The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your back.

Emmy, the events we lived through taught me to be sure of nothing about other people. They taught me to expect danger around every corner. They taught me to understand that there are people in this world that mean you harm, And sometimes, they're the people who say they love you.

As they spoke, the only thing I could think about was that scene from Julius Caesar where Brutus stabs him in the back. Et tu, Eric?

The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.

Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity.

Betrayal. It's one of the worst feelings.

I'm out in the ring, Shawn Michaels turns to me and says, 'Hey, I got a couple of vertebrae out. Would you mind puttin 'em in with that chair?' He turns his back, I whack him and all of a sudden I'm a bad guy.

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?

Betrayal would be a different sort of sick.

I understand pain. I've lived with pain my entire life. But pain is nothing compared to betrayal. And betrayal is nothing compared to knowing that the javelin in your back was rammed there by the one person in your life you actually trusted.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil