Top 100 Enemy Friend Quotes
#1. You cannot find, make or understand true friendship without having enemies.
Frank Moore Colby
#2. If death is as horrible as is claimed, how is it that after the passage of a certain period of time we consider happy any being, friend or enemy, who has ceased to live?
Emil M. Cioran
#3. The Internet, my fickle friend, my two-faced enemy, what would life be like without you? Where else can I be anonymously anyone and yet, have no anonymity at all?
Susan Schussler
#4. 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
#5. To a friend, achievement is good news, to an enemy, it's bragging.
Vanna Bonta
#6. He was supposed to be my enemy. He was probably insane. And he was my friend. Not that he wouldn't kill me if things turned out that way, but he wouldn't like doing it. With humans, what more could you ask of a friend?
Stephenie Meyer
#7. The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.
Ramana Maharshi
#8. The enemy of my enemy may not yet be my friend, indeed it may never be my friend, but it is, at least, if not less of an enemy, then no longer among my most important enemies.
Joseph Micallef
#10. The best way to lose an enemy is to treat him like a friend.
John Maxwell
#11. Count me not your friend but the enemy of your enemies.
Jack Vance
#12. Never hate an enemy; love them and transform them into a friend.
Debasish Mridha
#14. The worst enemy a man can ever have is the one who was once his best friend.' Sita
Amish Tripathi
#15. The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.
Walter Winchell
#16. Some one may say, are you not ashamed to be so taken in like a fool? Yes, I should be ashamed, if it had been an open enemy who had so deceived me. But, to my mind, when friend cheats friend, a deeper stain attaches to the perpetrator than to the victim of deceit.
Xenophon
#17. The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his government deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and a friend to her foe
Andrew Jackson
#18. I'd rather die at the hands of a friend than an enemy.
Stephen King
#19. If God were not my friend, Satan would not be so much my enemy.
Thomas Brooks
#20. Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.
Tobias Wolff
#21. What is he? A friend or an enemy? The alethiometer answered: He is a murderer.
Philip Pullman
#22. A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.
Bryant McGill
#23. In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#24. Park your ego and listen to your readers. They can be your best friend or your worst enemy. But chances are you'll learn something from them.
Eliza Green
#25. Neither the stone that made you stumble is your enemy, nor the stone that helped you cross the river is your friend! Universe just lives its own life!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#26. Friend: Someone who will tell you the truth, often mistaken for an enemy.
Matt Haig
#27. Our limited mind is our enemy and our unlimited mind is our best friend. When you become a slave of the mind, it will limit you. When you use it, it will bring you the whole universe.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#28. A friend tells you the truth, that your breath stinks and you need a bath. An enemy tells you that you look great and you shouldn't change a thing.
Nikki Sixx
#29. Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.
Edwin Louis Cole
#30. By nature man without woman can feel no joy. She is his mother, his sister, his loving friend. She is seldom his enemy.
Christine De Pizan
#31. 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
#32. I can be a very valuable friend to you, but you do not want me as an enemy.
Matthew Quick
#33. 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
#34. Who knows you more ... your friend or your enemy? It's your enemy that pursues with passion while your friend engages at leisure.
Donna Lynn Hope
#35. A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.
Pythagoras
#36. Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
Benjamin Franklin
#37. To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To you, respect.
Oren Arnold
#38. Don't fear the enemy that attack you but the fake friend that hugs you
Obameso Sunkanmi
#39. Always work with the present moment, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.
Eckhart Tolle
#40. The one thing worse than an enemy is a friend turned false.
Philip Reeve
#41. The enemy of my enemy is my friend . - Vincent
Penelope King
#42. God must be allowed the right to speak unpredictably ... We must find him in our enemy, or we may lose him even in our friend. We must find him in the pagan or we will lose him in our own selves, substituting for his living presence an empty abstraction.
Thomas Merton
#43. Wine is a turne-coate (first a friend, then an enemy).
[Wine is a turncoat, first a friend, then an enemy.]
George Herbert
#44. Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become and enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
Saadi
#45. Dismantle your friend to see how he behaves. If he smiles with a beautiful grin, then take him back, he's worthy to be called a friend.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#46. He claimed that there was no greater natural advantage in life than having an enemy overestimate your faults, unless it was to have a friend underestimate your virtues.
Mario Puzo
#47. In my youth I loved climbing and scrambling up rocks and mountains: now I seldom intrude on the dweller of a second story, and my greatest enemy or friend may avoid me altogether on the third; so humbled is the aspiring spirit of my youth.
Edward John Trelawny
#48. Love your enemy. But don't forget he is not your friend
Paulo Coelho
#49. Caution is a spy's best friend; paranoia is his enemy.
Jack Barsky
#50. Most people don't actually like the press. The friend of my enemy is not necessarily my friend.
Susan Estrich
#51. Today you are standing in a position that would please the friend and would anger the enemy and all the infidels. You will be victorious against the enemies and you are causing them to suffer.
Saddam Hussein
#52. An enemy will agree, but a friend will argue - Russian Proverb
Rachel Van Dyken
#54. Better are the blows of a friend than the flase kisses of an enemy.
Thomas Becket
#55. Treat your friend as if he will one day be your enemy, and your enemy as if he will one day be your friend
Warren G. Harding
#56. A sister is a dearest friend, a closest enemy, and an angel at the time of need.
Debasish Mridha
#57. Children get acquainted with each other in a special way, they do not make contracts as adults, they believe each other or not. Childish friendships often end in violence. You may become an enemy all of a sudden as well as notice that you are someone's best friend.
Henning Mankell
#58. To kill your enemy is not a victory; but to make your enemy your friend that is a victory!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#59. Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Aesop
#60. 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
#61. Your attitude is either your best friend or your worst enemy, your greatest asset or your greatest liability
John C. Maxwell
#62. Do you know what a friend is, milord? (Emily)
An enemy in disguise. (Draven)
Kinley MacGregor
#63. Peace is something you only have when your enemy is gone. Either after you have turned him into a friend or vanquished him
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#65. Better a good enemy than a bad friend.
Plato
#66. The competitor is our friend and the customer is our enemy.
Dwayne Andreas
#67. A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes.
Joseph Addison
#68. It is easier to gain a hundred enemies than to gain one friend.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#69. However, it has long been said that my enemy's enemy is my friend.
Seth Grahame-Smith
#70. An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.
Saadi
#71. An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth,
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#72. There's ways you can trust an enemy you can't always trust a friend. An enemy's never going to betray your trust.
Daniel Abraham
#73. Life works on strange laws of nature (Karma).
One never knows when a friend turns enemy & vice-versa.
Rely on your Self; self-reliance
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#74. The ground must be a general's best friend, or it becomes his worst enemy.
Joe Abercrombie
#75. it takes two people to cut you to the heart: an enemy to slander you and a friend to tell you what the enemy said.
Monica Ferris
#76. Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. It is all we ever have so we might as well work with it rather than struggling against it. We might as well make it our friend and teacher rather than our enemy.
Pema Chodron
#77. I hear much talk about us and them. I am always wary when people speak this way, as if people can be so easily divided into friend and enemy.
Rick Riordan
#78. Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies; Nay, who but infants question in such wise, twas one of my most intimate enemies.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
#79. Charles Spurgeon's words: You may conceal your infirmity, even from your dearest friend, but you will not conceal it from your worst enemy.
Beth Moore
#80. Invite your friend to a feast, but leave your enemy alone; and especially invite the one who lives near you.
Hesiod
#81. When principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battle is your calling, and peace has become sin; you must, at the price of dearest peace, lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy, with all the fire of your faith.
Abraham Kuyper
#82. It is easier to lose friends than to win over enemies.
Overnight one becomes your enemy.
Over centuries a man refuses to be your friend.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#83. Government is the enemy until you need a friend.
William Cohen
#84. It is possible to love one's friend for another reason than God, whereas God is the only reason for loving one's enemy.
Peter Kreeft
#85. The difference between a friend and an enemy is friendliness.
Frank Delaney
#86. Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.
William Shakespeare
#87. My sometimes friend, sometimes enemy, all the time pain in the ass.
Karen Chance
#88. The slap of a friend is trusted to help you ... but the kisses of an enemy is nothing but lies
Anonymous
#89. One person's enemy is another person's best friend. My favorite food might give you a rash.
Deepak Chopra
#90. I acknowledge the Roman Church to be our mother church, although defiled with some infirmities and corruptions ... Let [the Papists] assure themselves, that, as I am a friend of their persons, if they be good subjects, so am I a vowed enemy, and do denounce mortal war to their errors.
King James I
#91. I have known persons without a friend
never any one without some virtue. The virtues of the former conspired with their vices to make the whole world their enemies.
William Hazlitt
#92. A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.
Eric Hoffer
#93. Choose your thoughts and beliefs wisely.
Be your own best friend, and not your enemy.
Maddy Malhotra
#95. 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
#96. Intensity is both the communicator's best friend and worst enemy. To really hold an audience, they must sense that what you are saying is important, at least to you.
Calvin Miller
#97. Now shame on the coward soul, which wants the courage either to be a firm friend, or an open enemy.
Matthew Gregory Lewis
#98. I recognize the widest possible difference-so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked. To be the friend of one, is of necessity to be the enemy of the other.
Frederick Douglass
#100. Today's enemies can be your friends tomorrow. And today's friends can be tomorrow's enemies.
Suzy Kassem
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