Quotes
Quotes about Enemy
Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions.
Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
O cunning enemy that, to catch a saint, With saints dost bait thy hook: most dangerous Is that temptation that doth goad us on To sin in loving virtue.
As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptations we resist.
The greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant companion humility. -Charles Colton.
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--diliberate, contrived, and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
For what is he they follow? Truly, gentlemen, A bloody tyrant and a homicide; One raised in blood and one in blood established; One that made means to come by what he hath, And slaughtered those that were the means to help him; A base foul stone, made precious by the foil Of England's chair, where he is falsely set; One that hath ever been God's enemy.
Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most [people's] minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.
They see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victors belong the spoils of the enemy.
We have met the enemy and they are ours.
The greatest conquerer is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow.
America is not fighting to win a war. We are fighting to give an application to an old Greek proverb, which is that the purpose of war is not to annihilate an enemy but to get him to mend his ways. And we are confident we can get the enemy to mend his.
To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. â¢Otto Von Bismarck Peace with a club in hand is war. â¢Portuguese Proverb The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale. â¢Bernard Mannes Baruch The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow. â¢Chinese Proverb Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war. â¢Hyman Rickover A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. â¢Sir Winston Churchill The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on.
It is a fatal error to enter any war without the will to win it. â¢Douglas MacArthur All great civilisations, in their early stages, are based on success in war. â¢Kenneth Clark You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. â¢Jeannette Rankin War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.
Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.
Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.
It's not enough to be able to pick up a sword. You have to know which end to poke into the enemy.
Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.
