I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
Oscar Wilde

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
Oscar Wilde

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
Edgar Allan Poe

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
Walt Whitman

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.
Jim Morrison

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
Jonathan Swift

Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parties and buddies. There were none of that for me. I didn't have friends when I was little. My brothers were my friends.
Michael Jackson

No nation has friends only interests.
Charles de Gaulle

A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
Charles de Gaulle

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.
Saint Augustine

My friends are my estate.
Emily Dickinson

I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.
Marcus Garvey

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
Wilson Mizner

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. Edison

Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
P. J. O'Rourke

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
Blaise Pascal