Best Quotes about Enemies
You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
Conrad, Joseph
Bear patiently with a rival.
Ovid
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
A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Gracian, Baltasar
The enemy is more easily overcome if he be not suffered to enter the door of our hearts, but be resisted without the gate at his first knock.
Kempis, Thomas
Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
Lee, Bruce
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.
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
If thine enemy offend thee, give his child a drum.
It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.
Syrus, Publilius
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
Talk well of your friends and of your enemies say nothing.
Proverb
Our enemies approach nearer to truth in their judgments of us than we do ourselves.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
One enemy is too much.
Herbert, George
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
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
A person is his own worst enemy.
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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
We have meet the enemy; and he is us.
Kelly, Walt
A strong foe is better than a weak friend.
Dahlberg, Edward
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
He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.
Eddie Cantor
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Eric Hoffer
The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
Channing, William Ellery
If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
Carlyle, Thomas
Even a paranoid can have enemies.
Kissinger, Henry
Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.
Jones, Ernest
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy -- the mother.
Colbert, Claudette
Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.
Franklin, Benjamin
He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
Blake, William
Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy.
Spike Milligan
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
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
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
Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.
Franklin, Benjamin
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.
There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.
Euripides
In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
Voltaire
Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either.
Jewish Proverb
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
Andre Maurois
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
Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
Publilius Syrus
If it looks like shit, smells like shit, mail it to your enemy... he'll know what to do with it.
Horton, Doug
The person who builds a character makes foes.
Young
Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.
Persian Proverb
False friends are worse than bitter enemies.
Proverb, Scottish
I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember.
Ford, Gerald R.
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