Top 88 My Friend Is My Enemy Quotes
#1. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, men said, but the enemy of my friend is my enemy.
George R R Martin
#2. Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.
George MacDonald
#3. You say, you can't live without hope? My friend, hope is our biggest enemy. It does not bring realization. It just prolongs suffering.
Stevan V. Nikolic
#4. If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then a friend of my enemy, is my enemy.
Pyreglide
#5. 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
#6. A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
Aesop
#7. 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
#8. If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.
Henri Nouwen
#9. Do you know what a friend is, milord? (Emily)
An enemy in disguise. (Draven)
Kinley MacGregor
#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. My mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy.
Elyn Saks
#12. Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate - and quickly.
Robert A. Heinlein
#13. One wide-awake persistent enemy may be worth twenty friends. Friends point out all the good things you do. You know all about that. Your enemies point out your mistakes. Get yourself a first-class enemy, cultivate him, and when you achieve success thank him.
Harold Hobbs
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. Fear is like a fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you. It can heat your house.If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. Fear is your friend and your worst enemy.
Sui Ishida
#17. I am still bullied occasionally. However, none of my current bullies really exist. They're all in my head. Be your own best friend instead of your worst enemy.
Abiola Abrams
#18. I'm a good friend, but I'm a hell of an enemy. As your enemy, I want your demise. When I feel that in my heart it burns till I die.
Mike Tyson
#19. We are our best friend and our worst enemy we will ever fight with.
Debasish Mridha
#20. Both friend and enemy reside within us. One lives by the rule of compassion, the other by the rule of hard knocks. Though potential influence of either extreme is inevitable, our actions bear witness to the one we embrace.
T.F. Hodge
#21. Better a good enemy than a bad friend.
Plato
#22. A life without love is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. So, keep love in your heart if not your best friend today will turn to your worst enemy tomorrow.
Osunsakin Adewale
#24. I've never felt that fear is my enemy. Fear is my friend. It offers me a chance to stay alert, keep growing, continue creating something new. If you don't take that sort of risk, you learn nothing.
Eartha Kitt
#25. 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
#26. Anyone who is an enemy of mine, let him love women, but let he who is my friend rejoice in men.
Sextus Propertius
#27. 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
#28. Loneliness is my worst enemy, but in the end he's usually my only real friend.
Dave Guerrero
#29. 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
#30. The enemy of my enemy is my friend . - Vincent
Penelope King
#31. There is an Italian proverb which saith, From my enemy let me defend myself; but from a pretensed friend Lord deliver me
Elizabeth I
#32. 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
#33. Most people don't actually like the press. The friend of my enemy is not necessarily my friend.
Susan Estrich
#34. The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend - Skulduggery Pleasant.
Derek Landy
#35. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
George Orwell
#36. 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
#37. I shook Obama's hand and I said, 'I want to be your friend.' My hand is still outstretched. I am not Obama's enemy, but it's difficult not see imperialism in Washington. Those who don't see it don't want to see it, like the ostrich.
Hugo Chavez
#38. I feel like sometimes my best friend is not my best friend but my mortal enemy
Scott Westerfeld
#39. I've discovered it is not sufficient simply to try to take time for quietness but that I must, with all diligence, make time. Whatever keeps me from prayer, solitude, and the Bible, however good it appears, is my enemy if I am to be God's devoted friend and follower.
Tommy Barnett
#40. Change to me is like an old friend. It's not my enemy anymore. And I know it will keep coming back to visit again and again to teach me something new.
Phyllis George
#41. The enemy of my enemy is my friend? That's bullshit. There are always more than two sides. Pretending it's only one or else the other is what let that sonofabitch carry so much weight in the OPA for as long as he did." "He
James S.A. Corey
#44. My name is Cammie!" I didn't think about all the people I could have woken, all the alarms that might have gone off. I just snapped, "How did you know about Boston? Why are you working with Mr. Solomon now? Are you my friend or are you my enemy, Zach? Or, wait, let me guess, you can't tell me.
Ally Carter
#45. The problem is that I'm Josef Weber's friend. but Reiner Hartmann is my enemy. So what do I do, now that they are the same man?
Jodi Picoult
#46. 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
#47. Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn.
Mike Tyson
#49. While it is often true that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, it seems like Yahoo's almost obsessive focus on Google is taking away from its other businesses.
Kara Swisher
#50. However, it has long been said that my enemy's enemy is my friend.
Seth Grahame-Smith
#51. I hate cameras. I hate cameras and I hate camera phones. The camera's my worst enemy and my best friend. It's the way I convey my emotions to the world without saying a word, so I use it. People always say, 'You come alive as soon as the camera's on!'
Nicki Minaj
#53. An injudicious and malignant enemy often serves the cause he means to injure; but a feeble friend never attains that end.
Dorothy Wordsworth
#54. I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis. I am not an enemy of the Catholics, as I am not an enemy of the tuberculars, the myopic or the paralytics; you cannot be an enemy of the sick, only their good friend in order to help them cure themselves.
Diego Rivera
#55. An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.
Saadi
#56. Better a wrong will than a wavering; better a steadfast enemy than an uncertain friend; better a false belief than no belief at all.
George Eliot
#57. A friend is nothing but a known enemy.
Kurt Cobain
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. I guess the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Nalini Singh
#61. The ground must be a general's best friend, or it becomes his worst enemy.
Joe Abercrombie
#62. 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
#63. My friend you must understand that time forks perpetually into countless futures. And in at least one of them I have become your enemy. Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths (1941)
Adrian McKinty
#64. 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
#65. One person's enemy is another person's best friend. My favorite food might give you a rash.
Deepak Chopra
#67. 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
#68. The competitor is our friend and the customer is our enemy.
Dwayne Andreas
#69. Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
Jean De La Fontaine
#70. I'd rather have an enemy who admits that they hate me, than a friend who secretly puts me down.
Karen Salmansohn
#71. 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
#72. If we learn to know that there is no enemy but we only have friend with misunderstanding then peace will be there.
Debasish Mridha
#73. I want you, Isis. Not as a friend. Not as an enemy. But as the most beautiful girl I've ever known.
Sara Wolf
#74. You ought to thank me for killing your enemy," Jon said finally, "and curse me for killing your friend.
George R R Martin
#75. View the past as your enemy, and it will be an albatross.
View it as your friend, and it will give you wings.
Alan Cohen
#76. My heart will always beat for you and you alone, my friend, my lover, my enemy, my soul.
Rachel Van Dyken
#77. Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#78. 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
#79. An enemy of your enemy might be your friend. But a friend of your friend isn't automatically your friend.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#80. To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal
Henry A. Kissinger
#81. Think of, at the moment of dying, is there will be any enemy for you? None! Everyone will be the best friend. So win all your enemies with your divine love when you are living.
Debasish Mridha
#82. It's hard to be done a favor by a man you hate. It's hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing an enemy can be worse than losing a friend, if you've had him for long enough.
Joe Abercrombie
#83. The attack of an enemy is easier to fend off than the betrayal of a friend.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#84. Our best friend and our worst enemy reside within us. Unfortunately, most of us access the latter far more often than the former.
Maddy Malhotra
#85. A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes.
Joseph Addison
#86. The most powerful force that can transform an enemy into a friend is simple kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#87. It is easier to gain a hundred enemies than to gain one friend.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#88. Smile at a friend, at a stranger, at an enemy, at life's absurdities and the universe will smile back at you.
Carol Vorvain
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