Champagne for my real friends, and real pain for my sham friends. Francis Bacon

Boys, I may not know much, but I know the difference between chicken shit and chicken salad. Lyndon Baines Johnson

Friends are God’s apology for relatives. Hugh Kingsmill

A friend is someone we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. Ambroise Bierce

I enjoy forgiving my enemies. It drives them up the wall. Milton Berle

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best. They are merely the people who got there first. Peter Ustinov

Many can argue, few can converse. Louisa May Alcott

Wise men argue causes, and fools decide them. Anacharis (600 BC)

The stronger and more bitter the words, the weaker the cause. Victor Hugo