ENEMIES QUOTES III

quotations about enemies

For its part, the coyote almost certainly didn't consider the goose to be an enemy, although the goose would likely disagree. To the coyote, the goose was dinner, neither more nor less.

DAVID P. BARASH

Beloved Enemies


The best way to defeat an enemy is not to eliminate the enemy physically but rather the enemy's psychological submission.

XUEZHI GUO

The Ideal Chinese Political Leader


If thou wilt think evil of thy neighbour, soon shalt thou have him for thy foe.

MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER

Proverbial Philosophy


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"


However bad a man, he will have some friends: however good, he will have some enemies.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts


It is good that a man's enemies want him dead, for it proves he has lived a life of worth.

FORREST CARTER

The Outlaw Josie Wales


By a few soft words and pleasant looks enemies have been made friends, and old attachments renewed that had been annulled for years.

NICIAS BALLARD COOKSEY

Helps to Happiness


To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies.

SIDNEY SHELDON

The Other Side of Midnight


Enemies strengthen you. Allies weaken you.

FRANK HERBERT

God Emperor of Dune


It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one's intentions, makes one the enemy.

CHARLES DE LINT

The Little Country


For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep.

UMBERTO ECO

The Prague Cemetery


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.

NEITH BOYCE

Enemies


A conquered foe should be watched.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE

Country Town Sayings


In most cases, our enemies are less focused on us than we might assume, or fear, or secretly desire.

DAVID P. BARASH

Beloved Enemies


The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

Micah


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


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


We ought not to make those people our enemies who might have become our friends, if we had only known them better.

JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE

"Of the Affections", Les Caractères


I have only one real and true enemy on earth, and that is myself.

CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN

An Evolution in Aphorisms


If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Driftwood