Enemies Quotes

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Your worst and most dangerous enemy is the person that injures you under the pretensions of friendship. ~ Norman Macdonald

Your friend lends and your enemy asks for payment. ~ Dutch Proverbs

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

When we admit that our enemies are really a part of ourselves they help us (or force us) to incorporate the unity of God and of creation into our lives. ~ Moshe Schatz

When there is no enemy it is safe to fight. ~ German Proverbs

What joins men together … is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies. ~ Cormac Mccarthy

We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose. ~ Frank Herbert

Use your enemy’s hand to catch a snake. ~ Persian Proverbs

Though your enemy is the size of an ant, look upon him as an elephant. ~ Danish Proverbs

There is no little enemy. ~ French Proverbs

The worst enemy is one whose doctrines are founded in hate and are thus beyond debate. ~ Tobsha Learner

The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies. ~ Umberto Eco

The only good enemy is a dead enemy. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

The looking glass is the enemy of ugly women. ~ Romanian Proverbs

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

The enemy of my enemy is my enemy’s enemy. No more. No less. ~ Howard Taylor

The enemy is never more unnerving than when he’s invisible. ~ K. J. Parker

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people. ~ G. K. Chesterton

The assault of our enemies is not part of our life; it is only part of our experience; we throw it off and guard ourselves against it as against frost, storm, rain, hail, or any other of the external evils which may be expected to happen. ~ Goethe Quotes

Scratch a lover, and find a foe. ~ Umberto Eco

Pass by your enemy hungry but never naked. ~ Egyptian Proverbs

Our enemies approach nearer to truth in their judgments of us than we do ourselves. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes

One good punch on your enemy’s nose, gives more pleasure than hearing well-meaning advice from your elders. ~ Tibetan Proverbs

No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. ~ Mexican Proverbs

Many are brave when the enemy flees. ~ Italian Proverbs

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. ~ Mario Puzo

It’s great to have an enemy. Sharpens your senses. ~ John Updike

It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill. ~ J. R. R. Tolkien

It is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends. ~ George Washington Quotes

Instead of loving your enemies, have no enemies to love. ~ Norman Macdonald

If your enemy is up to his waist in water, give him your hand; if the water reaches his shoulders, stand on his head. ~ Spanish Proverbs

If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

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. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I have always paid attention to the merits of my enemies, and found it an advantage. ~ Goethe Quotes

However bad a man, he will have some friends: however good, he will have some enemies. ~ Ivan Panin

He who flatters me is my enemy, who blames me is my teacher. ~ Chinese Proverbs

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. ~ John F. Kennedy

Enemies don’t fight with such determined passion. That kind of focus is reserved for friends at odds with one another. ~ Heather Brewer

Do not keep secret from your friend what your enemy already knows. ~ Danish Proverbs

By a few soft words and pleasant looks enemies have been made friends, and old attachments renewed that had been annulled for years. ~ Nicias Ballard Cooksey

Bribery is the enemy of justice. ~ Swahili Proverbs

Beware of still water, a still dog, and a still enemy. ~ Yiddish Proverbs

Better to have one thousand enemies outside the house than to have one single enemy inside it. ~ Lebanese Proverbs

Absence is the enemy of love. ~ Italian Proverbs

A weapon is an enemy even to its owner. ~ Turkish Proverbs

A small debt makes a man your debtor, a large one your enemy. ~ Irish Proverbs

A man with no enemies is a man with no character. ~ Paul Newman

A guilty conscience is a lively enemy. ~ Indian Proverbs

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