Quotes about enemies

"The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven t. This is to avoid the ghastly embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other the whole length of the corridor."

Adams, Douglas on enemies
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"We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction."

Aesop on enemies
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"There once was a Bald Man who sat down after work on a hot summer's day. A Fly came up and kept buzzing about his bald pate, and stinging him from time to time. The Man aimed a blow at his little enemy, but - whack - his palm come on his own head instead; again the Fly tormented him, but this time the Man was wiser and said: YOU WILL ONLY INJURE YOURSELF IF YOU TAKE NOTICE OF DISPICABLE ENEMIES."

Aesop on enemies
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"Enemies promises were made to be broken."

Aesop on enemies
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"Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults."

Antisthenes on enemies
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"Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults"

Antisthenes on enemies
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"Pay attention to your enemies for they are the first to discover your mistakes."

Antisthenes on enemies
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"Wise men learn many things from their enemies."

Aristophanes on enemies
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"Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you. [Matthew]"

Bible on enemies
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"When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend."

Blake, William on enemies
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"It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on enemies   

"If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown."

Carlyle, Thomas on enemies
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"Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within."

Cervantes, Miguel De on enemies
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"We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us."

Chambers, Oswald on enemies   

"The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts."

Channing, William Ellery on enemies   

"Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment."

Chesterfield, Lord on enemies
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"Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy -- the mother."

Colbert, Claudette on enemies
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"You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends."

Conrad, Joseph on enemies
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"A strong foe is better than a weak friend."

Dahlberg, Edward on enemies
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"It is not necessary to have enemies if you go out of your way to make friends hate you."

Dane, Frank on enemies
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"Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards."

Dickson, R A on enemies   

"There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck."

Euripides on enemies
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"I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember."

Ford, Gerald R. on enemies   

"I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people."

Franklin, Benjamin on enemies
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"Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults."

Franklin, Benjamin on enemies
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"Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies."

Franklin, Benjamin on enemies
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"No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on enemies
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"A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends."

Gracian, Baltasar on enemies
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"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!"

Harding, Warren Gamaliel on enemies   

"Enemies are so stimulating."

Hepburn, Katharine on enemies
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"One enemy is too much."

Herbert, George on enemies   

"No man should ever display his bravery unless he is prepared for battle, nor bear the marks of defiance, until he has experienced the abilities of his enemy."

Hitopadesa on enemies
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"If it looks like shit, smells like shit, mail it to your enemy... he'll know what to do with it."

Horton, Doug on enemies   

"Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him."

Jones, Ernest on enemies
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"We have meet the enemy; and he is us."

Kelly, Walt on enemies
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"The enemy is more easily overcome if he be not suffered to enter the door of our hearts, but be resisted without the gate at his first knock."

Kempis, Thomas on enemies   

"It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head."

Kempton, Sally on enemies   

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."

Kennedy, John F. on enemies
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"Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty."

King, Stephen on enemies
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"Even a paranoid can have enemies."

Kissinger, Henry on enemies
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