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1 " Cynthia had been on friendly terms with an eccentric librarian called Porlock who in the last years of his dusty life had been engaged in examining old books for miraculous misprints such as the substitution of " 1" for the second " h" in the word " hither." Contrary to Cynthia, he cared nothing for the thrill of obscure predictions; all he sought was the freak itself, the chance that mimics choice, the flaw that looks like a flower; and Cynthia, a much more perverse amateur of misshapen or illicitly connected words, puns, logogriphs, and so on, had helped the poor crank to pursue a quest that in the light of the example she cited struck me as statistically insane. (" The Vane Sisters" ) "
2 " Peter remained on friendly terms with Christ notwithstanding Christ's having healed his mother-in-law. "
― Samuel Butler
3 " Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. "
― Samuel Butler , The Note Books Of Samuel Butler
4 " Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil. "
― Plato
