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Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
STEPHEN KING, The Last Gunslinger
The most certain way to make a man your enemy is to tell him you esteem him such.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to John Banister, Apr. 21, 1778
We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
Every man is his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE, Religio Medici
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
MARIO PUZO, The Godfather
A man's enemies are those he should endeavor first to make his friends.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.
If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
Men and women are natural enemies, like cat and dog--only more so. They are forced to live together for a time, or this wonderful race couldn't go on.
- 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, A Hundred Sayings
I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.
SALMAN RUSHDIE, The Satanic Verses
However bad a man, he will have some friends: however good, he will have some enemies.
It is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to George Washington Parke Custis, Nov. 28, 1796
Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.
The only good enemy is a dead enemy.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, The Killing Dance
The worst enemy is one whose doctrines are founded in hate and are thus beyond debate.
TOBSHA LEARNER, The Witch of Cologne
The assault of our enemies is not part of our life; it is only part of our experience; we throw it off and guard ourselves against it as against frost, storm, rain, hail, or any other of the external evils which may be expected to happen.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
Love your enemies.
Instead of loving your enemies, have no enemies to love.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
Our worst enemies are those we least suspect--ourselves.
- Fear not, too much, an open enemy;
- He is consistent--always at his post;
- But watchful be of him who holds the key
- Of your own heart, and flatters you the most.
ANDREW DOWNING, "Your Enemy"
If thou wilt think evil of thy neighbour, soon shalt thou have him for thy foe.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER, Proverbial Philosophy
Your worst and most dangerous enemy is the person that injures you under the pretensions of friendship.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
He makes no friends who never made a foe.
ALFRED TENNYSON, Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir
When an intimate friend turns from us, we often find him the most inveterate enemy.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY, Proverbs
The foes that are unseen are often stronger than those that are seen.
If you are without an enemy in the world, you may be a lamb or an ass, but you are not a man.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
I have always paid attention to the merits of my enemies, and found it an advantage.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, speech, Apr. 16, 1953
The only enemy to fear is the enemy within, the demon that speaks in your own voice, the assassin in the mirror.
BOB LONSBERRY, A Various Language
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