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An overconfident enemy is prone to carelessness. — Anthony Ryan

An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force. — Akio Morita

Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. — Oren Arnold

What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one's enemy only when his back is turned? — Thomas Pynchon

Life becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy. — Mahatma Gandhi

to want any woman so badly was unwise, let alone his enemy's daughter." An Artful Seduction — Tina Gabrielle

Love an enemy with unconditional trust.
Reveal his treasure to him without any thrust. — Debasish Mridha

If you want to treat China as an enemy, you have a much better chance of making them an enemy than if you treat them as a potential friend. — Jim Sasser

Death wasn't part of God's original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy - the last enemy to be destroyed. — Billy Graham

In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government. — Alan Green

The workers love Khrushchev very much. He hasn't got an enemy in the entire country. Quite a few under it. — Bob Hope

There are few things worse than mistaking an enemy for a friend. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Truthful man:
He who is, secretly, regarded by everyone as an enemy. — Idries Shah

I'd rather have an enemy who admits that they hate me, than a friend who secretly puts me down. — Karen Salmansohn

Art is an instrument in the war against the enemy. — Pablo Picasso

When you are dealing with an invisible enemy,
use most resources as shield, and a bit as a bait. — Toba Beta

If I lived in another country, like a country that was, say, an enemy of the United States, I would be more amused than I am. — Fran Lebowitz

You can't fight a battle you don't see or know exists. You cannot defeat an enemy when you don't even know he is attacking you. — Rebecca Brown

In some ways [the Internet]'s definitely an enemy. — Tony Kushner

I am not an enemy of Adventism. — Walter Martin

This was how an enemy should be dealt with: with a dagger, not a declaration. — George R R Martin

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind. — William Shakespeare

It's more dangerous to have a friend then it is to have an enemy. — James Jean-Pierre

I have no enemies ... but if I am to have an enemy, Let his strength be equal to mine, That truth alone may be the victor. — Kahlil Gibran

Friends are nice. You can tell' 'em stuff, but you can swear like a gangster at an enemy. And that's all right, too. — Lois Greiman

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law. — Demosthenes

Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend. — George Bernard Shaw

Fear makes you feel surrounded by an enemy. Faith makes you realize you are surrounded by God. — Joyce Meyer

If you are kind to an enemy, you cannot hate him. — Margaret Deland

John considered a young master as the natural enemy of an old servant, and young people in general as a poor contrivance for carrying on the world. — George Eliot

If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that's the way I felt when I was young. — Agnes Varda

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

The wounds inflicted by a friend are faithful, but an enemy's kisses are plentiful. — Stacey Culpepper

We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can't deceive. — Moliere

A brand-new pair of toe shoes presents itself to us as an enemy with a will of its own that must be tamed. — Toni Bentley

Daesh is the enemy of Europe, and Europe cannot live with the idea that the crises that surround it don't have an effect on it. — Francois Hollande

If I learned anything Downtown, it's this: the only real difference between an enemy and a friend is the day of the week. — Richard Kadrey

Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. — George Orwell

I suppose [ ... ] that the most convincing way to fool an enemy would be to fool a friend. — Anne Bishop

Never interfere with an enemy in the process of destroying himself. — Napoleon Bonaparte

A man does a lot of praying in an enemy prison. Prayer, even more than sheer thought, is the firmest anchor. — Jeremiah Denton

To Subdue an enemy without fighting is the greatest of skills — Sun Tzu

A rich dress adds but little to the beauty of a person. It may possibly create a deference, but that is rather an enemy to love. — William Shenstone

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. — Aesop

Good behavior wins even an enemy. — Chanakya

If in order to kill the enemy you have to kill an innocent, don't take the shot. Don't create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act. — James Mattis

Politics is an enemy of productivity — Satyendra Singh 'Shyamal'

We have an enemy who would do anything to keep us distracted from Jesus. — Emily P. Freeman

I think Americans understand that in Afghanistan, unlike in Iraq and Vietnam, we are fighting an enemy allied with the people who attacked us on 9/11. — Richard Holbrooke

Enemies are an indication of character. — Mary Roberts Rinehart

Could an enemy really curse someone? Could the enemy affect reality by the deliberate mental intent of harming? — M.J. Mandoki

My men don't dig foxholes. I don't want them to. Foxholes only slow up an offensive. Keep moving. And don't give the enemy time to dig one either. — George S. Patton

a man who was friendly with everyone was an enemy to himself. — Mike Tyson

An intimate enemy, death, capricious and cruel, ultimately invincible. — Sharon Kay Penman

An enemy should be struck at his weak point. — Chanakya

We should render a service to a friend to bind him closer to us, and to an enemy in order to make a friend of him. — Cleobulus

Beatings from a friend are better than kisses from an enemy. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy. — Plutarch

In such an admirable position of the New World, man has no other enemy than himself. — Alexis De Tocqueville

"There is no greater gift to an insecure leader that quite matches a vague enemy who can be used to whip up fear and hatred among the population." — Paul Rusesabagina

Unfortunately, many regard the critic as an enemy, instead of seeing him as a guide to the truth. — Wilhelm Steinitz

So an honest man is the common enemy. — Honore De Balzac

Because as much as I dislike her, I would prefer not to have an enemy. — Dawn O'Porter

There's ways you can trust an enemy you can't always trust a friend. An enemy's never going to betray your trust. — Daniel Abraham

A false friend is more dangerous than an open enemy — Francis Bacon

to be underestimated by an enemy is the greatest advantage a man can have. — Megan Whalen Turner

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free. — Erich Maria Remarque

Unlike an external enemy, the inner enemy cannot regroup and launch a comeback once it has been destroyed from within. — Dalai Lama

To truly defeat an enemy, no sacrifice is too great. — Preston Morgan

Give the enemy an inch, he'll take a yard. — Monica Crowley

There is no weapon in the end as difficult to overcome as the tongue of an enemy. — Andre Norton

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view. — George Savile

Revenge is a dish best eaten cold and there is no sweeter dish than outliving an enemy — Don Darkes

The best way to meet a woman is in an emergency situation - if you're in a shipwreck, or you find yourself behind enemy lines, or in a flood. — Mark Helprin

He who gets the better of an irascible temperament conquers his worst enemy. — Publilius Syrus

It's great to have an enemy. Sharpens your senses. — John Updike

To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt our hatred for him — Eric Hoffer

The Abbe's warning: 'Never confront an enemy at the end of a journey, unless it happens to be his journey'. — Stella Gibbons

It's easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire. — Frank Herbert

Fear is as dangerous an enemy as resentment. — Niccolo Machiavelli

He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friend like him. — Oscar Wilde

To have a traitor for an ally is to have an enemy in waiting — Jacqueline Carey

I'm not making an enemy; I'm keepin' one. — Stephen King

To fight an enemy properly, you have to know what they are. Ignorance is defeat. — Greg Bear

A prudent person after all can pick something
Even from an enemy. — Aristophanes

Whatever attracts the mind from God, whatever draws the affections away from Christ, is an enemy to the soul. — Ellen G. White

Love your enemies ... it's not always an easy tenet to live by ... and I have more often than not been inclined to wish my enemies ill than well. — Lea Salonga

It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive looks and solemn faces. — Walter Scott

I have an enemy and that is me. — Debasish Mridha

What good is a friend if you cant make an enemy of him? — William Gillette

New ideas are not only the enemies of old ones; they also appear often in an extremely unacceptable form. — Carl Jung

Do not press an enemy at bay. — Sun Tzu

The truth is that anyone ... that wants to subvert our Constitution to Shariah Law is an enemy of the United States. — Louie Gohmert

In the city that the wolf enters, enemies will be close by. An alien force will sack a great country. Allies will cross the mountains and the borders. — Nostradamus

People need an enemy to feel a sense of purpose. — Terry Goodkind

To get rid of an enemy one must love him. — Leo Tolstoy

With little loan you get a friend, with big loan an enemy. — Publilius Syrus

Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.
(about Guernica). — Pablo Picasso

You will lose your hand, find your fist and gain an ally. You will also meet your enemy face-to-face. — James A. Moore

Equality before the enemy - first precondition for an honest duel. — Friedrich Nietzsche