Old Enemies Quotes

#1. Sorry to burst your bubble, lass, but the truth is important. Unfortunately, wisdom and happiness are old enemies, and where one can be found, the other seldom lingers.

Joseph R. Lallo

#2. She read my books the way a young cannibal might eat the hearts of brave old enemies. Their magic would become hers.

Kurt Vonnegut

#3. If you have to fight old enemies, you should do it with your own old soldiers.

Marius C.

#4. Warning: Contains old friends, old enemies, a dramatic cat rescue, soft drink references and a lot of teasing before the steamy sex. Readers are cautioned against drinking any beverage while reading to avoid accidental snorting or spraying of said beverages.

K.A. Mitchell

#5. Old enemies must be friends when a greater evil looms.

Raymond E. Feist

#6. She didn't need 'little chunks of home'. They were like slightly sinister postcards from old enemies.

Lisa Jewell

#7. Unfortunately, wisdom and happiness are old enemies, and where one can be found, the other seldom lingers. - Wollof

Joseph Lallo

#8. We all leave behind bits of loose thread. Old operations, old enemies. They pull at you, like memories of old lovers.

Daniel Silva

#9. Some of the worst enemies of the man who is seeking for the truth will appeal to him as old friends in whom he has had great confidence.

Joseph French Johnson

#10. Choose old people for enemies. They die. You win.

Jacob M. Appel

#11. Let us toast to good things about bad times, to old friends and new enemies, to great tragedies and small pleasures!

P.M. Steffen

#12. For that matter, Odysseus himself might have borrowed a trick or two from the rabbit hero, for he is very old and was never at a loss for a trick to deceive his enemies.

Richard Adams

#13. It is always one's stance upon uncertain ground that invites the attentions of one's enemies. Or discourages it.

Cormac McCarthy

#14. When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.

Octavia E. Butler

#15. Perhaps the greatest contribution that those of us who come from a Christian tradition can make is to throw out the old just-war theory, embrace the nonviolence of Jesus, refuse to kill one another, and truly follow his commandment to love our enemies.

Mairead Corrigan

#16. If your going to be a jackass then do it outside of your home, as your home is supposed to be a place of love and safety, it's your sanctuary from the outside world. The only place where we can truly be accepted.

Lisa Marie Main

#17. There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.

Vash Young

#18. The innovator makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old order, and only lukewarm support is forthcoming from those who would prosper under the new.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#19. New ideas are not only the enemies of old ones; they also appear often in an extremely unacceptable form.

Carl Jung

#20. Look around. There are no enemies here. There's just good, old-fashioned rivalry.

Bob Wells

#21. You know the old saying," said Nick. "Keep your friends close and your enemies dead and buried in the basement.

Mark Frost

#22. Old Burmese (now Myanmar) proverb: Burmese proverb: Government is one of the five evils along with fire, floods, thieves and enemies.

Jeffrey Friedland

#23. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#24. In strength, the fear of enemies, In beauty, the fear of old age, In knowledge, the fear of defeat, In virtue, the fear of scandal, In the body, the fear of death. In this life all is fraught with fear: Renunciation alone is fearless. (In Search of God and

Swami Vivekananda

#25. My teacher said once that every man faces seven enemies in his lifetime. Sickness, hunger, betrayal, envy, greed, old age, and then death ...

Osamu Tezuka

#26. I smile to myself knowing that they may be dead.

Emilie Autumn

#27. It's an old axiom of mine: marry your enemies and behead your friends.

Robert N. Lee

#28. Instead of friends, I see in Washington only mortal enemies. Instead of loving the old flag of the stars and stripes, I see in it only the symbol of murder, plunder, oppression, and shame.

Rose O'Neal Greenhow

#29. Us women, no matter how crude we are with one another,we must always remember that we have two enemies in common."
The three of us look at each other confused, then back at Ms. Eleanor waiting for her to answer.
"Men," she sighs, still staring off. "And old age.

Chelsea Ballinger

#30. When the enemies of Spire Albion were in the walls, the great-great granddaughter of old Admiral Tagwynn had refused to have a good lie-down, and it was as simple and as profound as that.

Jim Butcher

#31. The reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#32. Well, you know that old saying, "Keep your friends close and make out with your enemies.

Shae Ross

#33. People from the past, have a tendency to walk back into the present, and run over the future.

Anthony Liccione

#34. And how easy it is to recognize the revenant shapes that the old unchanging enemies - racism, leader worship, superstition - assume when they reappear amongst us (often bodyguarded by their new apologists).

Christopher Hitchens

#35. The suffering of my enemies will be a feast to the spirits. When I am old, I will remember the tears they have shed and it will ease my bones.

Conn Iggulden

#36. For a few moments in the evening, then, they talked quietly and casually, as if they were old friends or exhausted enemies.

John Edward Williams

#37. Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

Robert Burton

#38. My reputation was built on hostility. I had no friends and some very virulent enemies in the old-guard art scene when I began. They threw their heavy artillery against me. They were convinced I was perverting the public taste.

Betty Parsons

#39. I would suggest that you remember she is old because some of her enemies are dead.

C.J. Cherryh

#40. In the old free days all I wanted was a sharp sword and a straight path to my enemies. Now no paths are straight and my sword is useless.

Robert E. Howard

#41. One extraordinary thing happened as a result of the fear caused by your people, and that was that old feuds and envies disappeared. Those among us who had been enemies for generations forgot their grudges and joined one another against the invasion.

Graciela Limon

#42. Death was an old acquaintance. They had met before. They were not friends. Not enemies, either.

Dan Groat

#43. You have the maturity of a 14-year-old boy!" Kennedy hisses.
"And you have the chest of one.

Emma Chase

#44. In the Old Way, women might decorate themselves with ornaments bought with coin, but a warrior wore only the jewelry he took off the corpses of enemies slain by his own hand. Paying the iron price, it was called.

George R R Martin