
Success will win you false friends and true enemies - succeed anyway. —
Mother Teresa

Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies. —
Luc De Clapiers

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him. —
Aesop

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. —
Stephen King

One night I prayed to God, I asked could he please remove my enemies from my life, and before you knew it I started losing friends. —
Meek Mill

Love your friends and be just to your enemies. —
Robert Green Ingersoll

Lifelong enemies are, I think, as hard to make and as important to one's well-being as lifelong friends. —
Jessica Mitford

A fellow and his business should be bosom friends in the office and sworn enemies out of it. —
George Horace Lorimer

The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends. —
Peter Ustinov

America betrays its friends. It sets them up and betrays them. I'd rather be America's enemy. —
Ahmed Chalabi

You should forgive your enemies and if you haven't any, just forgive a few of your friends. —
Howard Marion-Crawford

Time should make enemies and Life should make friends. —
Henry R. Luce

The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone. —
Mary Shelley

If a normally kind, agreeable person makes an enemy of you, you ought to ask yourself why. —
Joyce Rachelle

your real self always attracts your real enemies and shows your real companions. —
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate. —
Arthur Bloch

A politician knows that his friends are not always his allies, and that his adversaries are not always his enemies. —
Richard M. Nixon

The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends. —
Honore De Balzac

It's an old axiom of mine: marry your enemies and behead your friends. —
Robert N. Lee

It's customary when great events happen that the U.S. punishes its friends and rewards its enemies. —
Ahmed Chalabi

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition. —
Voltaire

Which is a greater sin in the eyes of God: to let a child suffer and die to preserve your reputation, or to become friends with your enemy? —
Jeremy Courtney

I'm a very tough guy, and I fight hard, and I don't give up. And that makes me friends and that makes me enemies, and I know that. —
Alan Dershowitz

I don't like the saying keep your friends close and enemies closer. I want my enemy on a different planet. —
Wanda Sykes

As your enemies and your friends, so are you —
Johann Kaspar Lavater

No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full. —
Sulla

Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and exacting. —
Henry Adams

I knew the enemy were ready to break and only wanted a little encouragement from us to go quickly and join their friends who had started earlier. —
Ulysses S. Grant

Humans feel deeply the suffering of their friends and allies and easily discount/dismiss the comparable experience of their enemies. —
Ray Kurzweil

Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends. —
Plato

Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship. —
Norman Maclean

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task. —
Diogenes

You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours. —
Benjamin Franklin

The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential - and enemies to push us beyond it. —
Robert Breault

Though it is a great mistake to make friends of the wicked and foolish, it is unwise to make enemies of them, for they are very numerous. —
John Lubbock

The French are always reticent to surrender to the wishes of their friends and always more than willing to surrender to the wishes of their enemies. —
Dennis Miller

God has given us speech in order that we may say pleasant things to our friends, and tell bitter truths to our enemies. —
Heinrich Heine

I think we should all talk to our enemies and talk to our friends. Talk! That's the only way we'll find solutions. —
Dave Matthews

I always keep my temper with my enemies, and that inclines me to lose it with my friends. —
Willa Gibbs

It is normal to have enemies,
common to have acquaintances,
and unusual to have friends. —
Matshona Dhliwayo

Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison. —
John Frederick Boyes

When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity. —
Ben Jonson

In Jesus and for Him, enemies and friends alike are to be loved. —
Thomas A Kempis

He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible. —
Leo Tolstoy

I haven't spent years in fashion making friends and making enemies. —
Dasha Zhukova

The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies. —
William Temple

If you treat people with dignity, respect and friendliness, you can turn enemies into friends. An enemy is nothing but a friend in disguise. —
Ted Turner

A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies. —
Richard Holbrooke

Friends are enemies sometimes, and enemies friends. —
Rumi

Keep your friends close and your enemies dead. —
Paul Dale

By nature man without woman can feel no joy. She is his mother, his sister, his loving friend. She is seldom his enemy. —
Christine De Pizan

Any politician who's ever been re-elected knows that friends come and go; enemies accumulate. —
Jim Cooper

Your enemies come in all shapes and colors, but so do your friends. —
Matshona Dhliwayo

Change to me is like an old friend. It's not my enemy anymore. And I know it will keep coming back to visit again and again to teach me something new. —
Phyllis George

Don't make the mistake of underestimating your enemies. —
Bohdi Sanders

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies. —
Wendell Phillips

Keep their friends close and their enemies closer. —
Sun Tzu