Top 100 Quotes About Enemies To Friends
#1. Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away.
Ellis Peters
#2. 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
#3. When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
Ben Jonson
#4. Well, you know that old saying, "Keep your friends close and make out with your enemies.
Shae Ross
#5. Acquaintances come and go, friends are here to stay, but enemies accumulate.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#6. I always keep my temper with my enemies, and that inclines me to lose it with my friends.
Willa Gibbs
#7. It is better to have an enemy than to have a fool for a friend.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#8. 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
#9. I have lots of friends, but I'm probably a terrible friend to all of them, even my family. I wouldn't be surprised if I found myself with no friends later on in life. My friends become my enemies.
Ariel Pink
#10. Hatred begins to emerge like love and it's not too far from love.
Auliq Ice
#11. The Americans will never solve the Indian problem till the Indian is extinct. They have treated them after a fashion which has intensified their treachery and 'devilry' as enemies, and as friends reduces them to a degraded pauperism, devoid of the very first elements of civilization.
Isabella Bird
#12. I could never have been a pacifist. To kill a man was surely to grant him an immeasurable benefit. Oh yes, people always, everywhere, loved their enemies. It was their friends they preserved for pain and vacuity.
Graham Greene
#13. There is not a more prudent maxim, than to live with one's enemies as if they may one day become one's friends; as it commonly happens, sooner or later, in the vicissitudes of political affairs.
Lord Chesterfield
#14. It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
J.K. Rowling
#15. It's always important to take time to study men
important men. Friends and enemies.
James Clavell
#16. Prudence advises us to use our enemies as if one day they might be friends.
Margaret Of Valois
#17. Our enemies make us strong, Miss Muffet, not our friends. Our friends will lie to us, tell us what we need to hear. Forgive us. We must keep a few good enemies on hand, always, to keep us sharp and teach us never to do anything that needs forgiveness.
Ann Rinaldi
#18. Possession hinders enjoyment. It merely gives you the right to keep things for or from others, and thus you gain more enemies than friends.
Baltasar Gracian
#19. Instead of spending your dear energy on hating enemies,
Utilize this energy to love your friends a little harder truly.
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Munindra Misra
#20. 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.
#21. It is curious how often one prefers his enemies to his friends.
Gore Vidal
#23. It is just as valuable to be censured by friends as it is splendid to be praised by enemies. We desire praise from those who do not know us, but from friends we want the truth.
Rene Descartes
#24. 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
#25. I'm going to say my name is Dorothy Sherman and I'm telling it like it is. I'm going to say my friends call me Dot, and I prefer my enemies not to call me at all.
Joe R. Lansdale
#26. To all my friends and enemies in the buckeye state. Come on over. There's room for everybody in Shangri-La.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#27. You don't make friends with friends. You have got to make friends with your enemies.
Yitzhak Rabin
#28. [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
#29. It's a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#30. 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
#31. As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.
Oscar Wilde
#32. 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
#33. 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
#35. The greater productivity of work under the division of labor is a unifying influence. It leads men to regard each other as comrades in a joint struggle for welfare, rather than as competitors in a struggle for existence. It makes friends out of enemies, peace out of war, society out of individuals.
Ludwig Von Mises
#36. One of the greatest difficulties in civil war is, that more art is required to know what should be concealed from our friends, than what ought to be done against our enemies.
Lord Chesterfield
#37. 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
#38. Do good to your friends to keep them,to your enemies to win them.
Benjamin Franklin
#39. The best way to get rid of your enemies is to make them your friends.
Abraham Lincoln
#40. You talk to your enemies, not just your friends.
James Baker
#41. Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
Tacitus
#42. We must endeavor to forget our former love for them [the British] and to hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.
Thomas Jefferson
#43. The Bible tells us to forgive our enemies, not our friends
Margot Asquith
#44. 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
#45. They were the best of friends as long as they did not know they were supposed to be enemies. The truth would do its damage soon enough.
- Brothers in Fire, by Jedtare
Marie Lu
#46. Friends are just enemies who don't have enough guts to kill you ...
Judy Tenuta
#47. Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them.
Diogenes
#48. And this was your friend?" Cordelia raised her eyebrows. "Seems to me the only difference between your friends and your enemies is how long the stand around chatting before they shoot you.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#49. As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
Diogenes
#50. Lies," Mr Solomon said the next morning as he walked into the classroom. "We tell them to our friends," he said. "We tell them to our enemies. And eventually ... we tell them to ourselves.
Ally Carter
#51. The attack of an enemy is easier to fend off than the betrayal of a friend.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#52. It's about empowering girls, You're gonna have bad boyfriends and best friends-turned-enemies. You need to be yourself, you need to work hard, and you'll get there.
Lauren Conrad
#53. The fruit of meditation is not the absence of thoughts, but the fact that thoughts cease to harm us. Once enemies, they become friends.
Bokar Rinpoche
#54. Now, the people that helped get Obama elected, who think Israel is a good idea, need to wake up and tell him they're our friends, let's preserve them. And then it would happen. Because that's the only kind of thing he responds to. But he throws our friends under the bus and rewards our enemies.
Louie Gohmert
#55. It's not your enemies who condemn you to solitude, it's your friends
Milan Kundera
#56. Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss.
Edward Abbey
#57. Kindness can turn the bad man's heart, and fools convert to wise, Make poison into nectar-juice, and friends of enemies.
Bhartrhari
#58. We are not enemies but we are just hostile to each other because of our different views and opinions.
Auliq Ice
#59. 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
#60. Me against enemies, me against friends. Somehow theyboth seem to become one
Nicki Minaj
#61. I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.
Arnold Bennett
#62. The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential - and enemies to push us beyond it.
Robert Breault
#63. Enemies are, to me, as important as friends in my life, and when they die I mourn their passing.
Jessica Mitford
#64. Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.
Joseph Conrad
#65. 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
#66. Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.
Joseph Conrad
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends
Alexis De Tocqueville
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. Best friends make the worst enemies, they know all your secrets and how to hurt you the most.
Alyson Noel
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."
Abraham Lincoln
#78. That's ridiculous. The only point in having enemies is so you can defeat them, kill them, brush them aside."
"Or give them a chance to redeem themselves.
Derek Landy
#79. It was about such people that he complained to Atticus: I will only say this, and I believe you know I am right: it was not enemies but jealous friends who ruined me.
Anthony Everitt
#80. 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
#81. Feed your friends, and their mouths will be too full to gossip, Bubbie used to say. Feed your enemies, and they'll become your friends.
Susan Wiggs
#82. it is better to be lost among friends
than found among enemies
Raymond Sapienza
#83. If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
Moshe Dayan
#84. He is a king, whatever you or he or anyone else says, and a king or queen must dispense justice without fear of enemies or favor for friends. Anyone who does that has to be hard. Mother
Robert Jordan
#85. The sea is a lonely and hostile place, Captain,' Jansen said coldly. 'It is always best not to make enemies of those who might be your friends. You never know when your ships may cross
Jocelyn Murray
#86. Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgment of our work. We derive more benefit from having our faults pointed out by our enemies than from hearing the opinions of friends.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#87. 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
#88. Your friends and enemies are defined the moment you come to this world.
M.F. Moonzajer
#89. 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
#90. Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
Joseph Addison
#91. To those who scare peace loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: your tactics aid terrorists for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies and pause to America's friends.
John Ashcroft
#92. 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
#93. If a normally kind, agreeable person makes an enemy of you, you ought to ask yourself why.
Joyce Rachelle
#94. To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.
Diogenes
#95. There's no point in bragging in the good times. Your friends don't need to hear it and your enemies won't believe it anyway.
Paul Orfalea
#96. It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.
Charles Caleb Colton
#97. Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.
Charles Caleb Colton
#98. It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends?
Willa Cather
#99. Only fools wait when their enemies are coming, to see if they may prove to be friends.
Philippa Gregory
#100. It's not your enemies who are likeliest to hurt you. It is, always, those you trust.
Rachel Caine
