Top 100 Quotes About Enemy And Friends
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
Robert Burton
#5. May the friends of America rejoice! May her enemies be humbled and her censors silenced at the news of her noble exertions in continuance of those principles which have placed her so high in the annals of history and among the nations of the earth.
Marquis De Lafayette
#6. Is this one of those keep-your-friends-close-and-your-enemies-closer things?"
"I though it was keep your friends close so you have someone to drive the car when you sneak over to your enemy's house at night and throw up in his mailbox.
Cassandra Clare
#7. It's an old axiom of mine: marry your enemies and behead your friends.
Robert N. Lee
#8. The terrorists are traitors to their own faith, trying, in effect, to hijack Islam itself. The enemy of America is not our many Muslim friends; it is not our many Arab friends. Our enemy is a radical network of terrorists, and every government that supports them.
George W. Bush
#9. Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison.
John Frederick Boyes
#10. 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
#11. Time, the cradle of hope ... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.
Charles Caleb Colton
#13. 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
#14. Don't forgive and never forget; Do unto others before they do unto you; and third and most importantly, keep your eye on your friends, because your enemies will take care of themselves!
JR
#15. Cynical? Thats my fascination. I do hateful things, for which people love me, And lovable things for which they hate me. I am a friend of enemies, the enemy of friends; I am admired for my detestability. I am both Poles and the Equator, with no Temperate Zones between.
Jerome Lawrence
#17. Keep your friends close and ridiculously gorgeous guys who should be your enemy even closer.
Lisa Roecker
#18. 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
#19. We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of friends, and one enemy we've always had was the NME. They've always basically slated us and they've basically never ever written about the music.
Dan Hawkins
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. So yeah, but from the show and as far as MTV I have a lot of friends, and from the challenges and the other shows, that I've met. I currently don't have any enemies that I know of.
Trishelle Cannatella
#24. Today's enemies can be your friends tomorrow. And today's friends can be tomorrow's enemies.
Suzy Kassem
#25. When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
Ben Jonson
#26. Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and exacting.
Henry Adams
#27. 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
#28. Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#29. Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
Ambrose Bierce
#30. He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible.
Leo Tolstoy
#31. They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.
Plato
#32. Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Stephen King
#33. It's customary when great events happen that the U.S. punishes its friends and rewards its enemies.
Ahmed Chalabi
#34. The world shall know that I will keep my faith to friends and enemies, come what will.
Abraham Lincoln
#35. I could be your worst enemy. But i would rather have friends then enemies, and i go to great length to make that the case. There's much more reward in having friends.
Jared Leto
#36. The ancients, by their system of colonization, made themselves friends all over the known world; the moderns have sought to make subjects, and therefore have made enemies.
Jean-Baptiste Say
#37. If you know the psychological nature of your own mind, depression is spontaneously dispelled; instead of being enemies and strangers, all living beings become your friends. The narrow mind rejects; wisdom accepts. Check your own mind to see whether or not this is true.
Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
#38. Now in the light of past and present events the bitter truth must be spoken. We feared too little and we hoped too much. We underestimated the bestiality of the enemy; we overestimtaed the humanity, the wisdom, the sense of justice of our friends.
Chaim Weizmann
#39. Friends are enemies sometimes, and enemies friends.
Rumi
#40. I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.
Maeve Binchy
#41. Any politician who's ever been re-elected knows that friends come and go; enemies accumulate.
Jim Cooper
#42. A cure for War? Furiously spending the same daily amount of money toward making friends. Being an indispensable source of food, shelter, peace, and cultural support dedicatedly spending 9 billion dollars a month on helping people would be a formidable enemy of evil.
Vanna Bonta
#43. 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
#44. A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.
Richard Holbrooke
#45. Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn't it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?
Bono
#46. Keep your friends close and your enemies dead.
Paul Dale
#47. I don't like the saying keep your friends close and enemies closer. I want my enemy on a different planet.
Wanda Sykes
#48. An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
Oscar Wilde
#49. I knew the enemy were ready to break and only wanted a little encouragement from us to go quickly and join their friends who had started earlier.
Ulysses S. Grant
#50. America betrays its friends. It sets them up and betrays them. I'd rather be America's enemy.
Ahmed Chalabi
#51. Fear had driven two enemies into each other's arms and he smiled at that thought. 'They fear me more than they do each other and that is good' he thought.
Raymond E. Feist
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
William Temple
#55. 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
#56. The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist.
Carl Levin
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. If a normally kind, agreeable person makes an enemy of you, you ought to ask yourself why.
Joyce Rachelle
#60. The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.
Mary Shelley
#61. 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
#62. The zeal of friends it is that razes me, And not the hate of enemies.
Friedrich Schiller
#63. 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
#64. A man must not only stand for the right principles, but he must also fight for them. Those who fight for principle can be proud of the friends they've gained and the enemies they've earned.
Ezra Taft Benson
#65. I'd rather have an enemy who admits that they hate me, than a friend who secretly puts me down.
Karen Salmansohn
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential - and enemies to push us beyond it.
Robert Breault
#70. Enemies are, to me, as important as friends in my life, and when they die I mourn their passing.
Jessica Mitford
#71. Friends are nice. You can tell' 'em stuff, but you can swear like a gangster at an enemy. And that's all right, too.
Lois Greiman
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.
Voltaire
#77. Acquaintances come and go, friends are here to stay, but enemies accumulate.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#78. I always keep my temper with my enemies, and that inclines me to lose it with my friends.
Willa Gibbs
#79. In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved with a few
the blind attract them, and they are the enemy.
Thomas Harris
#80. When you see contention amongst your enemies, go and sit at ease with your friends; but when you see them of one mind, string your bow, and place stones upon the ramparts.
Saadi
#81. Watching other people making friends, everywhere, as a dog makes friends. I mark the manner of these canine courtesies and think, here comes, thank Heaven, another enemy!
Edmond Rostand
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.
Henry R. Luce
#85. 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
#86. Men can beat each other to a pulp and still walk away friends. With a woman, once an enemy, always an enemy. Women will sit like a spider, for years, waiting for the chance to strike. They never forget and seldom forgive.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#87. Keep their friends close and their enemies closer.
Sun Tzu
#88. Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.
Guy Verhofstadt
#90. 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
#91. Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.
Norman Maclean
#92. 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.
#93. I am my own worst enemy. My friends and family will say, 'You've got everything going for you right now', and I say, 'Oh yes, but!' Which is not a good way to be.
Tamsin Egerton
#94. 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
#95. The best thing we could have done for Afghanistan was to get out of our Humvees and drink more green chai. We should have focused less on finding the enemy, and more on finding our friends.
Craig M. Mullaney
#96. You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.
Benjamin Franklin
#97. I haven't spent years in fashion making friends and making enemies.
Dasha Zhukova
#98. No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming war into my house and making friends with him? Better to befriend the enemy and hang on. Something worse might come along, which might be amusing or might not.
Gregory Maguire
#99. No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full.
Sulla
#100. The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.
Peter Ustinov
