Enemies Quotes
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Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us. (Quote by - Charles Haddon Spurgeon)
His father was no man's friend but his owne, and he (saith the prouerbe) is no man's for else. (Quote by - Thomas Adams)
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. (Quote by - John F Kennedy)
Truth requires a maximum effort to see through the eyes of strangers, foreigners, and enemies. (Quote by - Taylor Branch)
They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust. (Quote by - Bible)
Man has always had enemies, from the most primitive of times, and not all of these were real. (Quote by - Paul Harris)
War then is a relation not between man and man, but between State and State, and individuals are enemies only accidentally, not as men, nor as citizens, but as soldiers; not as members of their country, but as its defenders. (Quote by - Jean Jacques Rousseau)
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising. (Quote by - Cyril Connolly)
Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you (Quote by - Luke)
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Wee commonly say of a prodigall man that hee is no man's foe but his owne. (Quote by - Bishop John King)
The space in a needle's eye is sufficient for two friends, but the whole world is scarcely big enough to hold two enemies. Solomon ibn Gabirol Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed. (Quote by - Bible)
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
Journalism could be described as turning one's enemies into money. (Quote by - Craig Brown)
None but yourself who are your greatest foe. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Abroad, our most important policy is to support our troops and continue forward-thinking foreign policy in the war on terror - keeping our enemies on the run (Quote by - Christopher Bond)
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. (Quote by - Stephen King)
What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe? (Quote by - John Milton)
Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes. (Quote by - Antisthenes)
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies (Quote by - Elizabeth Bowen)
Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good. (Quote by - Sophocles)
They love him, gentlemen, and they respect him, not only for himself, but for his character, for his integrity and judgment and iron will; but they love him most for the enemies he has made. (Quote by - General Edward Stuyvesant Bragg)
You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and . . . you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil. (Quote by - Lord Horatio Nelson)
Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)
Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them and then you destroy yourself. (Quote by - Richard Nixon)
We do not celebrate the death of our enemies. (Quote by - Yitzhak Rabin)
I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves. (Quote by - Roy Cohn)
Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters. (Quote by - Raymond Aron)
Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest, and the greater the interest the closer the companionship. What makes enemies of people, if not the eagerness, the passion for the same thing? (Quote by - Bernard Berenson)
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe. (Quote by - Aristophanes)
Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. (Quote by - Martin Luther King Jr)
We have friends but they have not been made by silence or pussyfooting. If we have enemies, we do not placate them. (Quote by - William Grimes)
When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping. (Quote by - Maria Callas)
Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm. (Quote by - Malayan proverb)
When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies. (Quote by - Wendell Phillips)
A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time. (Quote by - Cicero)
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them as much (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity. (Quote by - Ben Jonson)
Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many. (Quote by - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton)
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made. (Quote by - Franklin D Roosevelt)
There's nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck. (Quote by - Euripides)
In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies of libery (Essays, Moral, Political and Literary). (Quote by - David Hume)
Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more. (Quote by - Jean de la Fontaine)
It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend. (Quote by - Pierre Jean de Beranger)
There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths. (Quote by - Edward Bulwer-Lytton)
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life, sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life. (Quote by - Elsa Maxwell)
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it. (Quote by - Gustav Flaubert)
And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them. (Quote by - Bible)
You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavoury enemies. (Quote by - Yitzhak Rabin)
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas? (Quote by - Joseph Stalin)
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
The enemies of Freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot. (Quote by - William Ralph Inge)
He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friends like him. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
What I want is to have no enemies when I die. Right now, I seem to have a lot of them. (Quote by - Nicola Horlick)
The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people. (Quote by - Christopher Morley)
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged. (Quote by - Heinrich Heine)
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)
Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. (Quote by - Bible)
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Every man is his own greatest enemy, and as it were his own executioner. (Quote by - Sir Thomas Browne)
Whoever has his foe at his mercy, and does not kill him, is his own enemy. (Quote by - Sa'di)
I hate admitting that my enemies have a point. (Quote by - Salman Rushdie)
Our enemies will tell the rest with pleasure. (Quote by - Bishop William Fleetwood)
Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers. (Quote by - Angela Carter)
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. (Quote by - Baltasar Gracian)
I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult. (Quote by - Arthur Miller)
Here's to the confusion of our enemies! (Quote by - Frank Sinatra)
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. (Quote by - John Milton)
Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
As your enemies and your friends, so are you (Quote by - Johann Lavater)
Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies. (Quote by - Kofi Busia)
It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them. (Quote by - Lana Turner)
We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends. (Quote by - Cosimo De' Medici)
Again and again, I've seen Bush turn a blind eye as his henchmen have leveled zealous attacks against his political enemies - assaults which the president himself has sometimes directly encouraged. (Quote by - Paul Begala)
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. (Quote by - Ian Fleming)
I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress. (Quote by - André Gide)
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself. (Quote by - Alfred Lord Tennyson)
He has no enemy, you say; My friend your boast is poor, He who hath mingled in the fray Of duty that the brave endure Must have made foes. If he has none Small is the work that he has done. He has hit no traitor on the hip; Has cast no cup from perjured lip; Has never turned the wrong to right; Has been a coward in the fight. (Quote by - Alexander Anton von Auersperg)
Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time. (Quote by - Sydney Harris)
One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling. (Quote by - William James)
Laws are applied to enemies, but only interpreted as regards friends. (Quote by - Giovanni Giolitti)
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
You and I were long friends; you are now my enemy, and I am yours. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Man is his own worst enemy. (Quote by - Cicero)
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. (Quote by - Arabic proverb)
If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life. (Quote by - Honore De Balzac)
A weak Invention of the Enemy. (Quote by - Colley Cibber)
Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee. (Quote by - Tacitus)
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. [The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891] (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
We can learn even from our enemies. (Quote by - Ovid)
