I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don’t even invite me. David Barry
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure; it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. Nietzsche
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason. Lord Chesterfield
Bernard Shaw is an excellent man; he has not an enemy in the world, and none of his friends like him either. Oscar Wilde
Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other. Balzac
I always choose my friends for their good looks and my enemies for their good intellects. Man cannot be too careful in his choice of enemies. Oscar Wilde
Like driftwood spars, which meet and pass upon the boundless ocean-plain, so on the sea of life, alas. Man meets man; meets and quits again. Matthew Arnold
All my friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane. Dolly Patton
How casually and unobserved we make all our most valued acquaintances. Emerson
I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best; they are merely the people who got there first. Peter Ustinov
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better. Edgar Howe
My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right. Dan Quayle
What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm. Thoreau
Even the best of friends cannot attend each other’s funeral. Keith Allan
The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom. Clarence Darrow
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. Mark Twain
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue. Izaak Walton
Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject. Charles Maurice
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. Thomas Jones
We are not loved by our friends for what we are; rather, we are loved in spite of what we are. Victor Hugo
Psychiatrists say that one out of four people are mentally ill. Check three friends. If they're OK, you're it. Kay Dayton
I get my exercise acting as pallbearer to my friends who exercise. Charlie pride
The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your back. Allen Sparks
Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar. Benjamin Franklin
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. Richard Bach
Love demands infinitely less than friendship. George J. Nathan
We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them. Tim Ticker
If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. Samuel Johnson
To have the universe bear one company would be a great consolation in death. Thoreau
The test of interesting people is that subject matter doesn't matter. Louis Kronenberger
The bonds that unite another person to ourselves exist only in our mind. Marcel Proust
Friendship is love without his wings. Byron
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it. Edgar Allan Poe
Infinitely often it is clear that we appreciate, even respect, not a multitude, but ten people gathered in a room, each of whom, taken by himself, we consider of no account. C. Leopard
You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends. Joseph Conrad
An ancient father says that a dog we know is better company than a man whose language we do not understand. Montaigne
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. Shakespeare
Money may buy friendship but money cannot buy love. Kenny Lewis
Togetherness is a substitute sense of community, a counterfeit communion. Gabriel Vania
At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations, there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring by fits and starts. Marcel Proust
A man knows his companion in a long journey is a little inn. Thomas Fuller
