Enemies Quotes, Sayings about your Enemy

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? – Abraham Lincoln.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have – Abraham Lincoln.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend – Abraham Lincoln.

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.

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth – Albert Einstein.

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment – Andre Maurois.

I’ve always said that in politics, your enemies can’t hurt you, but your friends will kill you – Ann Richards.

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults – Antisthenes.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends – Baltasar Gracian.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them – Benjamin Franklin.

Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him – Benjamin Franklin.

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

The nearest I can make it out, “Love your Enemies” means, “Hate your Friends” – Benjamin Franklin.

Lord, defend me from my friends; I can account for my enemies – Charles D’Hericault.

Keep your enemies in front of you – Chris Matthews.

He hasn’t an enemy in the world – but all his friends hate him – Eddie Cantor.

Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway – Elbert Hubbard.

It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best – E.R. Bulwer-Lytton.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you – Eric Hoffer.

There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy – George Washington.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names – John F. Kennedy.

The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he’s on – Joseph Heller.

Enemies are so stimulating – Katharine Hepburn.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business – Mahatma Gandhi.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you – Mark Twain.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend – Martin Luther King, Jr.

We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends – Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies – Moshe Dayan.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake – Napoleon Bonaparte.

I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends, they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights – Oscar Levant.

Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much – Oscar Wilde.

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies – Oscar Wilde.

We can learn even from our enemies – Ovid.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere – Ralph Waldo Emerson.

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends – Sir Francis Bacon.

Money can’t buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy – Spike Milligan.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us – Thich Nhat Hanh.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes – Thomas Jefferson.

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life – Winston Churchill.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something – Woodrow Wilson.

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