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
