Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

Best Quotes about Enemies

1.

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

2.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

3.

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

4.

A person is his own worst enemy.

5.

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

King, Stephen

6.

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

7.

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

Lee, Bruce

8.

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

9.

Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

No man should ever display his bravery unless he is prepared for battle, nor bear the marks of defiance, until he has experienced the abilities of his enemy.

Hitopadesa

11.

The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.

Channing, William Ellery

12.

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

Mark Twain

13.

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

14.

Pay attention to your enemies for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

Antisthenes

15.

In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.

Voltaire

16.

If thine enemy offend thee, give his child a drum.

17.

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

Proverb, Chinese

18.

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

Colbert, Claudette

19.

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

20.

Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

21.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

22.

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

23.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

24.

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

25.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

Eric Hoffer

26.

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.

Bette Davis

27.

Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

28.

He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.

Eddie Cantor

29.

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

30.

The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.

Miller, Henry

31.

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

32.

I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

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

Spike Milligan

34.

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

Horton, Doug

35.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

36.

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

Simpson, N. F.

37.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

38.

We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.

Chambers, Oswald

39.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

40.

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

41.

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

42.

One must be a somebody before they can have a enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

43.

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

Friedrich Nietzsche

44.

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

Moore, Frankfort

45.

It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

46.

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.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

47.

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

Proverb

48.

Our enemies approach nearer to truth in their judgments of us than we do ourselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

49.

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

Sally Kempton

50.

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.