Enemy And Friends Quotes

The best way to destroy your enemies is to make them adopt your worldview — Bangambiki Habyarimana

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him. — Oscar Wilde

We cannot have four more years apologizing to our enemies and abandoning our friends. — Mike Pence

Possession hinders enjoyment. It merely gives you the right to keep things for or from others, and thus you gain more enemies than friends. — Baltasar Gracian

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses. — Robert Burton

Keep your friends close and ridiculously gorgeous guys who should be your enemy even closer. — Lisa Roecker

Today's enemies can be your friends tomorrow. And today's friends can be tomorrow's enemies. — Suzy Kassem

We must endeavor to forget our former love for them [the British] and to hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends. — Thomas Jefferson

They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies. — Plato

I don't want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to. — Kevin Hart

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

Acquaintances come and go, friends are here to stay, but enemies accumulate. — Matshona Dhliwayo

We need a foreign policy that distinguishes America's friends from her enemies, and recognizes the true threats that we face. — Sarah Palin

I inherited half my father's friends and all his enemies — George W. Bush

The zeal of friends it is that razes me, And not the hate of enemies. — Friedrich Schiller

He who treats his friends and enemies alike, has neither love nor justice. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Enemies are, to me, as important as friends in my life, and when they die I mourn their passing. — Jessica Mitford

The world shall know that I will keep my faith to friends and enemies, come what will. — Abraham Lincoln

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. — Ambrose Bierce

I have no friends and no enemies - only competitors. — Aristotle Onassis

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

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

There are two sorts of pity: one is a balm and the other a poison; the first is realized by our friends, the last by our enemies. — Charles Sumner

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

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