enemies

1.

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

- Moshe Dayan

2.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

- Lee, Bruce

3.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

4.

The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them.

- Lao-Tzu

5.

There once was a Bald Man who sat down after work on a hot summer's day. A Fly came up and kept buzzing about his bald pate, and stinging him from time to time. The Man aimed a blow at his little enemy, but - whack - his palm come on his own head instead; again the Fly tormented him, but this time the Man was wiser and said: YOU WILL ONLY INJURE YOURSELF IF YOU TAKE NOTICE OF DISPICABLE ENEMIES.

- Aesop

6.

He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

- Chinese proverb

7.

A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

- Wrigley Jr., William

8.

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

- Blake, William

9.

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.

- Decter, Midge

10.

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

- Lavater, Johann Kaspar

11.

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.

- J. K. Rowling

12.

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

- Aristophanes

13.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

- Balthasar Gracian

14.

I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

- Ann Richards

15.

If it looks like shit, smells like shit, mail it to your enemy... he'll know what to do with it.

- Horton, Doug

16.

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

- Proverb, Scottish

17.

Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.

- Saadi

18.

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

- Kennedy, Robert F.

19.

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war . . .

- Aristophanes

20.

The mortal enemies of man are not his fellows of another continent or race; they are the aspects of the physical world which limit or challenge his control, the disease germs that attack him and his domesticated plants and animals, and the insects that carry many of these germs as well as working notable direct injury. This is not the age of man, however great his superiority in size and intelligence; it is literally the age of insects.

- Allee, W. C.