Quotes
Quotes about Enemies
Never Explain - your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway. -Elbert Hubbard.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends...They're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights!
Lord, defend me from my friends; I can account for my enemies.
Never Explain--your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway.
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, "Who could have done this? we have no enemies.".
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.
Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.
Remember, sir, my liege, The kings your ancestors, together with The natural bravery of your isle, which stands As Neptune's park, ribbed and paled in With rocks unscalable and roaring waters, With sands that will not bear your enemies' boats But suck them up to th' topmast.
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? -Abraham Lincoln.
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Aye. Fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live. At least awhile... And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chanceâ just one chanceâto come back here and tell our enemies that they make take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!!
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
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.
We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.
If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.
