Top 100 Friends Are Enemies Quotes
#2. When you start working, everybody is in your studio- the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas- all are there. But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you are lucky, even you leave.
John Cage
#3. Assume you will make enemies. Work to make allies. Don't expect to make friends. Friends are a gift that happens over time.
Thea Harrison
#4. A good cause is often injured more by ill-timed efforts of its friends than by the arguments of its enemies. Persuasion, perseverance and patience are the best advocates on questions depending on the will of others.
Thomas Jefferson
#5. The world will see the peace when we will understand that there are no enemies but there are friends who don't understand me.
Debasish Mridha
#6. I do not need any friends. I prefer enemies. They are better company and their feelings towards you are always genuine.
Dylan Thomas
#7. Enemies are, to me, as important as friends in my life, and when they die I mourn their passing.
Jessica Mitford
#8. We are not enemies but we are just hostile to each other because of our different views and opinions.
Auliq Ice
#9. Isn't the real scandal not that our religious leaders might be imagined walking across a road or talking as friends together in a bar, but rather that their followers are found speaking against one another as enemies, day after day in situation after situation?
Brian D. McLaren
#10. It's not your enemies who are likeliest to hurt you. It is, always, those you trust.
Rachel Caine
#11. Only fools wait when their enemies are coming, to see if they may prove to be friends.
Philippa Gregory
#12. Those nearest to our nearest may not happen to be the people who would have been our chief chosen friends, but they must be our friends; or memories are wounded and life made very ugly.
G.K. Chesterton
#13. There are two sorts of pity: one is a balm and the other a poison; the first is realized by our friends, the last by our enemies.
Charles Sumner
#14. Your friends and enemies are defined the moment you come to this world.
M.F. Moonzajer
#15. Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn "reasonable" and become your enemies, one quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
Sinclair Lewis
#17. A business career for a woman and her need for a woman's life as wife and mother, are not enemies at all, unless we make them so, but may be the closest and most co-operative friends and supporter of each other.
Hortense Odlum
#18. The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.
Peter Ustinov
#19. There are all kinds of love. We place too much emphasis on romantic love as the be-all and end-all. But there is brotherly love. Sisterly love. Love for mom. Love for dad. And naturally, vice-versa. Even with our enemies, we should try to turn them into friends through love.
Mark Andrew Poe
#20. Friends are just enemies in reverse
Gary Busey
#21. Teachers are in your life to guide you.
Friends are in your life to support you.
Parents are in your life to bless you.
Enemies are in your life to strengthen you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#22. We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be being treated like that by our own selves.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#23. All are my friends. I have no enemies.
Mahavira
#24. If you are a warrior, the nature and scale of your enemies will determine the nature and scale of your actions. In this sense, it is even more important to choose your enemies more wisely than your friends.
CrimethInc.
#25. Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.
Plato
#26. Because I had goodwill for all, I thought all were my friends, and then I learned of treachery, that some preferred my end. A glorious day, the one I learned the meaning of the word. It's good to know my enemies, though their reasons are absurd.
Vanna Bonta
#28. Acquaintances come and go, friends are here to stay, but enemies accumulate.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#29. Friends are enemies sometimes, and enemies friends.
Rumi
#30. Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#31. Those who put you in difficult times are enemies.
Those who forsook you in difficult times are acquaintances.
Those who stood by you in difficult times are friends.
Those who fought for you in difficult times are family.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#32. Friends are just enemies who don't have enough guts to kill you ...
Judy Tenuta
#33. Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
Jessamyn West
#34. It is not wise to think of people as either friends or enemies as if you were the center of the universe; many are not aware of your existance!
Salman Al Odah
#35. You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other; our brothers, our sisters, our friends, our enemies. That is to help each other and not hurt each other.
Stevie Ray Vaughan
#36. If you are going to set out to develop mystical powers to impress your friends and do other things to your enemies, the difficulty with it is that you will not be moving towards enlightenment.
Frederick Lenz
#37. People like leaders who look like they are dominant, optimistic, friendly to their friends, and quick on the trigger when it comes to enemies. They like boldness and despise the appearance of timidity and protracted doubt.
Daniel Kahneman
#38. [To] the progressive mind, the very concept of "the enemy" is obsolescent: there are no enemies, just friends whose grievances we haven't yet accommodated.
Mark Steyn
#39. It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.
Mahatma Gandhi
#40. We are a band of brothers. United in love for our common Savior, joined in his common cause of prayer for both friends and enemies, we find our affections kindled and our hearts warmed toward one another.
Megan Hill
#41. How silly of her not to realize that strongest friends make the best enemies; they always know where the weaknesses are hidden.
Diana Palmer
#42. The enemies of your enemies are not always your friends, but they can still be useful.
James D. Sass
#43. The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such a way as to shake up not only the self-assurance of their enemies, but the complacency of their friends, are precious catalysts for change.
Howard Zinn
#44. In trans-border relations, there are no permanent friends or permanent enemies or even permanent borders. There are only permanent interests and everything should be done to secure these interests.
Chanakya
#45. There are many ways of discarding [books]. You can give them to friends,
or enemies,
or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But the surest way is to lend them. Then they never come back to bother you.
Carolyn Wells
#46. If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.
Elbert Hubbard
#47. Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.
Sigmund Freud
#48. Good men are remembered for their friends. Great men are remembered for their enemies. The greatest men are those who turn their enemies into friends.
M. Todd Gallowglas
#49. This world is the hometown of our nativity; we live here among our friends, among our enemies, who are many time, (too often, only God knows) the snares of justice. Therefore, our God thinks it fit to remove us from our native soul, before he employs us in that state-business of judgment.
Daniel Cawdrey
#50. Your worst enemies are made when you ignore people. Those boys in America who shot dead classmates recently, didn't do that because they woke up with a positive self image that morning and then felt like slaughtering their friends.
Tori Amos
#51. Only friends get left behind. Enemies are always at your heels. The
Joe Abercrombie
#52. His defences are good. But it is his friends that will bring him low, not his enemies, Lady Culter. Keep you out of his way. That's the best advice I can give you.
Dorothy Dunnett
#53. I want to believe his sense of justice is equal to my love for him, but these are deep waters, and I know friends can lie just as well as enemies.
Pierce Brown
#54. I greatly fear some of America's greatest and most dangerous enemies are such as think themselves her best friends.
Nathan Hale
#55. If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you.
Diogenes
#56. Some people, though related by blood, are as sworn enemies. Others, bound only by friendship, would die for one another.
Beem Weeks
#57. A man's enemies are those he should endeavor first to make his friends.
Norm MacDonald
#59. I find that when I am gossiping about my friends, as well as my enemies, I am deeply conscious of performing a social duty. But when I hear they are gossiping about me, I am rightfully filled with righteous indignation.
Max Gluckman
#60. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Abraham Lincoln
#61. There are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, just permanent interests.
Carol Moseley Braun
#62. If you are completely surrounded by the enemies, this proves that you are damn stupid in matters of making friends and such a stupidity, such a miserable clumsiness is your biggest enemy!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#63. Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions ... are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends.
Walter Lippmann
#65. All the friends that I loved and wanted to reward are dead, and all the enemies that I hated and I had marked out for punishment are turned to my friends.
James Buchanan
#66. Therefore, your mistakes and your failures are blessings; opportunities for the best in parenting. And those who point out your mistakes are not your enemies, but the most valuable of friends.
William Martin
#67. Enemies are a given. Friends are not.
James Frey
#69. Some of the more popular life-centers for teens include Friends, Stuff, Enemies, Self, and Work. They each have their good points, but they are all incomplete in one way or another, and they'll mess you up if you center your life on any one of them to the exclusion of the others.
Sean Covey
#70. Say not unto thyself, Behold, truth breedeth hatred, and I will avoid it; dissimulation raiseth friends, and I will follow it. Are not the enemies made by truth, better than the friends obtained by flattery?
Akhenaton
#71. Strangers are potential friends and potential enemies, but treat them as potential friends.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#72. We are only human when we are part of a community ... I tried to isolate you, but it could not be done. I surrounded you with hostility; you took most of your enemies and rivals and made friends of them ... You were a part of them; they carried you inside them all their lives.
Orson Scott Card
#73. Lifelong enemies are, I think, as hard to make and as important to one's well-being as lifelong friends.
Jessica Mitford
#74. Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.
Jean Cocteau
#75. The Fifth Commandment of the Decalogue demands that one honor one's mother and father. That is not about calling home. It is about this: Their God is your God, their friends are your friends, their debts are your debts, their enemies are your enemies and their fate is your fate.
George Friedman
#76. Your friends are three and your enemies are three. Your friends are: your friend, the friend of your friend, and the enemy of your enemy. Your enemies are: your enemy, the enemy of your friend, and the friend of your enemy.
Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
#77. There is nothing that deceives us more than our own judgment when used to give an opinion on our own works. It is sound in judging the work of our enemies but not that of our friends, for hate and love are two of the most powerfully motivating factors found among living things.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#78. Our most valuable teachers are our enemies.While our friends can help us in many ways, only our enemies can provide us with the challenge we need to develop tolerance, patience, and compassionthree virtues essential for building character, developing peace of mind, and bringing us true happiness.
Dalai Lama
#79. You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#80. I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends ... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.
Oscar Levant
#81. Angels and demons are shaped by humans. Even god is shaped by humanity. Who you are has been codified by the humans around you ... family, friends, and even enemies.
Ben Tousey
#82. It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.
Gary Busey
#83. Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
Lord Byron
#84. We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
P.D. James
#85. When you are without friends, the next best thing is an enemy who knows you well.
Midnight Blue
#86. Be aware of people who are standing in your circle who don't smile when you win.
Chris Marvel
#87. Friends are the real superheroes. They battle our worst enemies - loneliness, grief, anxiety, depression, fear, and doubt - every time they come around.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#89. A politician knows that his friends are not always his allies, and that his adversaries are not always his enemies.
Richard M. Nixon
#90. O my Lord, whatever share of this world You have bestowed on me, bestow it to my enemies, and whatever share of the next world You have for me, give it to my friends. You are enough for me.
Rabia Basri
#91. If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind that it will break out upon those who are your friends, or those who are indifferent to you.
Plutarch
#92. Enemies are just friends in reverse.
Gary Busey
#93. Commerce makes friends, religion makes enemies; the one enriches, and the other impoverishes; the one thrives best where the truth is told, the other where falsehoods are believed.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#94. Though we are safe with our friends near, we are safest with our enemies nearer.
Susan Dennard
#95. Friends are just enemies you don't know enough about.
Jeremy Davies
#96. If those are your friends, you've got no need for enemies.
E. Lockhart
#97. Enemies are the people who think about you more than your friends do.
Donna Lynn Hope
#98. To win the war on terror, we must know who our friends are and where our enemies are hiding. We can't continue fighting terrorism using the same foreign policy blueprints that were in place before September 11th.
Evan Bayh
#99. Enemies who vow not to see you achieve it and friends who say you can't do it ... ARE THE SAME ... !!! They just don't want you to make it happen! Stay away!
Israelmore Ayivor
#100. Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is a question of the first importance for the revolution.
Mao Zedong