Motivational Quotes

Enemies

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

- Persian Proverb

Best Quotes about Enemies

Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

King, Stephen

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

Conrad, Joseph

I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends. They're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights!

Harding, Warren Gamaliel

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

Blake, William

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Gracian, Baltasar

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

10.

The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

12.

If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

Carlyle, Thomas

13.

Talk well of your friends and of your enemies say nothing.

Proverb

14.

Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you. [Matthew]

Bible

15.

Speak well of your enemies... you made them.

16.

Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy -- the mother.

Colbert, Claudette

17.

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

Horton, Doug

18.

Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies? Nay, who but infants question in such wise,'twas one of my most intimate enemies.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven t. This is to avoid the ghastly embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other the whole length of the corridor.

Adams, Douglas

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It pays to know the enemy -- not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

Thatcher, Margaret

21.

There is no stronger bond of friendship than a mutual enemy.

Moore, Frankfort

22.

Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

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We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

24.

Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy.

Spike Milligan

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Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

28.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

Mark Twain

29.

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

30.

Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy.

Simpson, N. F.

31.

Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

32.

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

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The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Proverb, Chinese

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The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

Aesop

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One reason we should love our enemies is that we made them ourselves. Another reason is that they keep us on our toes, a third reason is that we should make them our friends.

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Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.

Antisthenes

37.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

38.

Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.

Jones, Ernest

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I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember.

Ford, Gerald R.