
Top 54 Friends Are Just Enemies Quotes
#1. Friends are just enemies who don't have enough guts to kill you ...
Judy Tenuta
#2. Friends are just enemies you don't know enough about.
Jeremy Davies
#3. Friends are just enemies in reverse
Gary Busey
#4. I do not need any friends. I prefer enemies. They are better company and their feelings towards you are always genuine.
Dylan Thomas
#5. We must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies.
Thomas Jefferson
#6. The good man has his enemies. He would not be like His Lord if he had not. If we were without enemies we might fear that we were not the friends of God, for friendship of the world is enmity to God.
Charles Spurgeon
#7. Alexander operated by the same principle. Let us conduct ourselves so that all men wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies.
Steven Pressfield
#8. Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.
Joseph Conrad
#9. Good breeding and good nature do incline us rather to help and raise people up to ourselves, than to mortify and depress them, and, in truth, our own private interest concurs in it, as it is making ourselves so many friends, instead of so many enemies.
Lord Chesterfield
#10. The attack of an enemy is easier to fend off than the betrayal of a friend.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#11. People change. Feelings fade. Lovers drift. Friends leave. Friends become enemies. Lovers become strangers.
You'll be judged. but still Life Goes On.
Lovely Goyal
#12. Enemies are, to me, as important as friends in my life, and when they die I mourn their passing.
Jessica Mitford
#13. The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential - and enemies to push us beyond it.
Robert Breault
#14. I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.
Arnold Bennett
#15. Me against enemies, me against friends. Somehow theyboth seem to become one
Nicki Minaj
#16. You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
Gilles Deleuze
#17. 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
#18. Friends change. Enemies change. Acquaintances change. God alone does not change.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#19. Abraham Lincoln was often criticized for trying to make friends with his enemies instead of trying to get rid of them. He replied, Isn't that what I'm doing when I make an enemy a friend?
Sean Covey
#20. We are not enemies but we are just hostile to each other because of our different views and opinions.
Auliq Ice
#21. Keep your friends close, your enemies closer, and the junk food as far away as possble.
Krista Scott-Dixon
#22. [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
#23. 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
#24. There are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, just permanent interests.
Carol Moseley Braun
#26. Enemies are just friends in reverse.
Gary Busey
#27. 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
#28. What are friends ? Friends are people that you think are your friends
But they really your enemies, with secret indentities
And disguises, to hide they true colors
So just when you think you close enough to be brothers
They wanna come back and cut your throat when you ain't lookin' ...
Eminem
#29. We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.
Pythagoras
#31. My friends call me Wrath," says Raffe. "My enemies call me Please Have Mercy. What's your name, soldier boy?
Susan Ee
#33. A true man loves his enemies as much he loves his friends.
Santosh Kalwar
#34. Because when push comes to shove, we really don't want to have sex with our friends ... unless they're sexy. And sometimes we do want to have sex with our blackhearted, soul-sucking enemies ... assuming they're sexy.
Chuck Klosterman
#35. Get rid of the friends who want you to spend your whole day doing nothing with them. They're not your friends. They're your enemies.
Gene Simmons
#36. There's no doubt that I've deserved my enemies, but I don't think I've deserved my friends.
Walt Whitman
#37. I think we should all talk to our enemies and talk to our friends. Talk! That's the only way we'll find solutions.
Dave Matthews
#38. 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
#39. Best friends make the worst enemies, they know all your secrets and how to hurt you the most.
Alyson Noel
#40. He who learns from his enemies is as wise
as he who learns from his friends.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#41. Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies.
Kofi Abrefa Busia
#42. Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war; and this lesson saves their children, their homes, and their properties.
Aristophanes
#43. More people have been ruined by their upright friends than ever have been by their enemies!
Leslie Ford
#44. I don't need friends. All they do is eat your food, drink your beer, then spew your secrets the first time you do something that displeases them. No offense, but when you have as many enemies as I do, you keep your secrets under lock and key. (Solin)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#45. The U.S. should stop garrisoning the globe, subsidizing rich friends, and reconstructing poor enemies. Instead, it's about time Washington focused on defending America and its people.
Doug Bandow
#46. Take no duty of the Guard lightly. Friends must not be enemies
Just as enemies must not be friends.
Discerning the two is a life's work.
David Petersen
#47. You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.
Blaise Pascal
#48. Choose your friends carefully but don't worry about your enemies, they will choose you
Carl Henegan
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. If a man says that it is right to give every one his due, and therefore thinks within his own mind that injury is due from a just man to his enemies but kindness to his friends, he was not wise who said so, for he spoke not the truth, for in no case has it appeared to be just to injure any one.
Plato
#53. Sometimes the simplest solution out of conflict is becoming someone's friend, instead of saying goodbye forever.
Shannon L. Alder
#54. Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends
Alexis De Tocqueville
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