Top 74 A Friend Is An Enemy Quotes
#1. What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
Seneca The Younger
#2. To forgive a friend, one must practice generosity. To forgive an enemy, one must practice empathy. To forgive yourself requires charity. Forgiveness is a sacred act of gallantry.
Mac MacKenzie
#4. The most powerful force that can transform an enemy into a friend is simple kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#5. The attack of an enemy is easier to fend off than the betrayal of a friend.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#6. To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal
Henry A. Kissinger
#7. If you treat people with dignity, respect and friendliness, you can turn enemies into friends. An enemy is nothing but a friend in disguise.
Ted Turner
#8. To oblige a friend by inflicting an injury on his enemy is often more easy than to confer a benefit on the friend himself.
Anthony Trollope
#9. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
George Orwell
#10. All women should understand that a mammogram is nothing to be afraid of. It's not an enemy but a friend. Early detection is the key to the cure.
Kate Jackson
#11. Do you know what a friend is, milord? (Emily)
An enemy in disguise. (Draven)
Kinley MacGregor
#12. AugustineThe wounds of a friend are better than the kisses of an enemy. To love with sternness is better than to deceive with gentleness ... In Luke [14:23] it is written: "Compel people to come in!" By threats of the wrath of God, the Father draws souls to his Son.
Saint Augustine
#13. The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity.
Benjamin Franklin
#14. In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
Sophie Swetchine
#15. It may be doubtful, at first, whether a person is an enemy or friend. Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison; But poison, if used rightly, may turn medicinal.
Saskya Pandita
#16. For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon.
Robert Jordan
#17. A man that is a friend to everyone is an enemy to himself.
Mike Tyson
#18. Ranger is a man of few words. He's Cuban-American, former Special Forces, he makes a much better friend than an enemy, and he's Vinnie's numero uno bounty hunter.
Janet Evanovich
#19. Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.
Rumi
#20. A sister is a dearest friend, a closest enemy, and an angel at the time of need.
Debasish Mridha
#21. At the moment, the general perception ... is that the United States is an unreliable friend and a harmless enemy.
Bernard Lewis
#22. The only way we can change an enemy to a friend is by forgiveness.
Debasish Mridha
#23. It is better to have an enemy than to have a fool for a friend.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#24. The mind becomes a friend to the one who has control over it and an enemy to the one who is controlled by it.
Edward Viljoen
#25. Life becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy.
Mahatma Gandhi
#26. If I learned anything Downtown, it's this: the only real difference between an enemy and a friend is the day of the week.
Richard Kadrey
#28. The slap of a friend is trusted to help you ... but the kisses of an enemy is nothing but lies
Anonymous
#29. You seem to look upon depression as the hand of an enemy trying to crush you ... Do you think you could see it instead as the hand of a friend, pressing you down to the ground on which it is safe to stand?
Parker J. Palmer
#30. An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude
Charles Caleb Colton
#31. The difference between a friend and an enemy is friendliness.
Frank Delaney
#32. America is harmless as an enemy but treacherous as a friend.
Bernard Lewis
#33. I took note of the Buddha's teaching that in one sense a supposed enemy is more valuable than a friend, for an enemy teaches you things, such as forbearance, that a friend generally does not.
Dalai Lama XIV
#35. The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking something away.
Robert Kennedy
#36. A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#37. The brutal honesty of a friend is better than the fake flattery of an enemy.
Me
#38. It's more dangerous to have a friend then it is to have an enemy.
James Jean-Pierre
#39. What is he? A friend or an enemy? The alethiometer answered: He is a murderer.
Philip Pullman
#40. We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. Only in superstition is there hope. If you want to become a friend of civilization, then become an enemy of the truth and a fanatic for harmless balderdash.
Kurt Vonnegut
#41. While a battle is raging one can see his enemy mowed down by the thousand, or the ten thousand, with great composure; but after the battle these scenes are distressing, and one is naturally disposed to do as much to alleviate the suffering of an enemy as a friend.
Ulysses S. Grant
#42. Death is either a friend who rocks us gently as a nurse, or an enemy who violently drags the soul from the body.
Alexandre Dumas
#43. The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.
Walter Winchell
#44. The best way to lose an enemy is to treat him like a friend.
John Maxwell
#45. By humility, out of an enemy He has made a friend, which is more than to have created a new earth.
Meister Eckhart
#46. A false friend is more dangerous than an open enemy
Francis Bacon
#47. Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
Henry Fielding
#48. To a friend, achievement is good news, to an enemy, it's bragging.
Vanna Bonta
#49. Universe is a friend, it creates us; universe is an enemy, it kills us! It is neither a complete-friend, nor a complete-enemy.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#50. The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
Abraham Lincoln
#52. The best time to stop a fight is before it starts.
The best vitamin for developing friends is B1.
The best way to destroy an enemy in to make him a friend.
Abraham Lincoln
#53. Past and Present I know well; each is a friend and sometimes an enemy to me. But it is the quiet, beckoning Future, an absolute stranger, with whom I have fallen madly in love.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#54. He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.
James Howell
#55. There is an Italian proverb which saith, From my enemy let me defend myself; but from a pretensed friend Lord deliver me
Elizabeth I
#56. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake
#57. He is many things - dangerous and devious, cunning and deadly, a good friend and an implacable enemy - but he comes from an age when a man's word was indeed precious.
Michael Scott
#58. Wine is a turne-coate (first a friend, then an enemy).
[Wine is a turncoat, first a friend, then an enemy.]
George Herbert
#59. If any speak ill of thee, flee home to thy own conscience, and examine thy heart: if thou be guilty, it is a just correction; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction: make use of both; so shalt thou distil honey out of gall, and out of an open enemy create a secret friend.
Francis Quarles
#60. Ignorance is an enemy, even to its owner.
Knowledge is a friend, even to its hater.
Ignorance hates knowledge because it is too pure.
Knowledge fears ignorance because it is too sure.
Sri Chinmoy
#61. It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.
Pierre-Jean De Beranger
#62. It is my conviction that nothing enduring
can be built on violence.
The only safe way to overcome an enemy
is to make of that enemy a friend.
Mahatma Gandhi
#63. The one thing worse than an enemy is a friend turned false.
Philip Reeve
#64. The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.
Natan Sharansky
#65. Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor - never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten.
Elie Wiesel
#66. Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
Jean De La Fontaine
#67. What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press him further, you have the choice of two things
either to lose your loan or lose your friend.
Plautus
#68. An intelligent enemy,' he would say, stroking his beard as if it were a bristly pet, 'rather than a foolish friend.' Or, 'He learnt the language of pigeons, and forgot his own.' Or, the favourite of Jan Fishan Khan: 'Nothing is what it seems.
Tahir Shah
#69. The best thing to give
your enemy is forgiveness;
to an oponent, tolerance;
to a friend, your heart;
to your child, a good example;
to your father, deference;
to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you;
to your self, respect;
to all men charity.
Swami Sivananda Radha
#70. Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.
[Fr., Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami;
Mieux vaudrait un sage ennemi.]
Jean De La Fontaine
#71. Google is my best friend and my worst enemy. It's fabulous for research, but then it becomes addictive. I'll have a character eating an orange, and next thing I'm Googling types of oranges, I'm visiting chat rooms about oranges, I'm learning the history of the orange.
Liane Moriarty
#72. To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend.
Mahatma Gandhi
#73. It is easier for an ambitious friend to become an enemy than for an enemy to become a friend. It is even easier to make friends than you can find people to trust as friends.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#74. THE SEVEN COMMANDMENTS Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. No animal shall wear clothes. No animal shall sleep in a bed. No animal shall drink alcohol. No animal shall kill any other animal. All animals are equal.
George Orwell
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