Top 100 Quotes About Friend And Enemy
#1. 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
#3. One person's enemy is another person's best friend. My favorite food might give you a rash.
Deepak Chopra
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. The ground must be a general's best friend, or it becomes his worst enemy.
Joe Abercrombie
#8. I guess the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Nalini Singh
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.
Saadi
#14. 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
#15. An injudicious and malignant enemy often serves the cause he means to injure; but a feeble friend never attains that end.
Dorothy Wordsworth
#17. 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
#18. However, it has long been said that my enemy's enemy is my friend.
Seth Grahame-Smith
#19. 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
#21. 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
#22. A friend is nothing but a known enemy.
Kurt Cobain
#23. Smile at a friend, at a stranger, at an enemy, at life's absurdities and the universe will smile back at you.
Carol Vorvain
#24. It is easier to gain a hundred enemies than to gain one friend.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#25. The most powerful force that can transform an enemy into a friend is simple kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#26. A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes.
Joseph Addison
#27. 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
#28. The attack of an enemy is easier to fend off than the betrayal of a friend.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal
Henry A. Kissinger
#32. The competitor is our friend and the customer is our enemy.
Dwayne Andreas
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#36. My heart will always beat for you and you alone, my friend, my lover, my enemy, my soul.
Rachel Van Dyken
#37. 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
#38. You ought to thank me for killing your enemy," Jon said finally, "and curse me for killing your friend.
George R R Martin
#39. I want you, Isis. Not as a friend. Not as an enemy. But as the most beautiful girl I've ever known.
Sara Wolf
#40. If we learn to know that there is no enemy but we only have friend with misunderstanding then peace will be there.
Debasish Mridha
#41. 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
#42. I'd rather have an enemy who admits that they hate me, than a friend who secretly puts me down.
Karen Salmansohn
#43. Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
Jean De La Fontaine
#44. An enemy of your enemy might be your friend. But a friend of your friend isn't automatically your friend.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#45. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
George Orwell
#47. 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
#48. Better a good enemy than a bad friend.
Plato
#49. 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
#50. We are our best friend and our worst enemy we will ever fight with.
Debasish Mridha
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. My mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy.
Elyn Saks
#59. 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
#60. Do you know what a friend is, milord? (Emily)
An enemy in disguise. (Draven)
Kinley MacGregor
#61. If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.
Henri Nouwen
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. With little loan you get a friend, with big loan an enemy.
Publilius Syrus
#65. If you are a friend, why do you bite me so hard? If an enemy, why do you fawn on me?
Aesop
#66. Political criticism is our enemies' best friend.
Bernard Kerik
#67. To be a friend of the earth, you have to be an enemy of man.
T.C. Boyle
#68. Your attitude is either your best friend or your worst enemy, your greatest asset or your greatest liability
John C. Maxwell
#69. A ruler wishing to win shold not trust a cpterued enemy even if he may be extending had to be friend. Because deep rooted enemity, however, concealed, will ruerely come to light.
Chanakya
#70. Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.
Richard Le Gallienne
#71. Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you.
Yasser Arafat
#72. The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity.
Benjamin Franklin
#73. In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
Sophie Swetchine
#74. Best positive friend ... or worst negative enemy.
The choice is entirely up to you!
Timothy Pina
#75. It may be doubtful, at first, whether a person is an enemy or friend. Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison; But poison, if used rightly, may turn medicinal.
Saskya Pandita
#76. Time is the friend of the wonderful business, the enemy of the mediocre.
Alice Schroeder
#77. No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full.
Sulla
#78. For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon.
Robert Jordan
#79. Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Aesop
#80. We linked hands - my ex-boyfriend, my boyfriend, and my former friend-then-enemy-then friend and I - and walked through a door to see if maybe empty carbs were good for something after all.
Kiersten White
#81. Off fall the wife, the mother, the lover, the teacher, and the violent artist takes over. I am I alone. I belong to no one but myself. I mate with no one but the spirit. I own no land, have no kin, no friend or enemy. I have no road but this one.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
#82. I will blame no enemy that is a good man, nor yet praise a friend that is bad
Theognis
#83. Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That's the bottom line.
Chrissie Hynde
#84. Enemies publish themselves. They declare war. The friend never declares his love.
Henry David Thoreau
#85. Just stories? Stories can build up an empire, or strike down a people. You can spell the most powerful spell, ease a friend's hurt, or break an enemy. Stories make you believe.
Tobias S. Buckell
#86. Learning to spot narcissists and deal with their destructive behavior can save you the world of hurt that awaits anyone who mistakes the near enemy for a friend.
Martha Beck
#87. Trust no friend with that you need fear him if he were your enemy.
George Herbert
#88. To kill your enemy is not a victory; but to make your enemy your friend that is a victory!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#89. A man that is a friend to everyone is an enemy to himself.
Mike Tyson
#90. Ranger is a man of few words. He's Cuban-American, former Special Forces, he makes a much better friend than an enemy, and he's Vinnie's numero uno bounty hunter.
Janet Evanovich
#91. Why should we be closer to the Soviets? Because the Americans have challenged us. America is involved in a conspiracy [against the Arab world], primarily because of its policy toward Israel. In our view, whoever is against the Americans stands with us. The enemy of your enemy is your friend.
Muammar Gaddafi
#92. 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
#93. If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then a friend of my enemy, is my enemy.
Pyreglide
#94. Children get acquainted with each other in a special way, they do not make contracts as adults, they believe each other or not. Childish friendships often end in violence. You may become an enemy all of a sudden as well as notice that you are someone's best friend.
Henning Mankell
#95. Listen to me, friend. Lay aside your pride or it will entangle you in sin. Anger is your worst enemy.
Francine Rivers
#96. I simply believe that you should never tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy,' said Blume.
Conor Fitzgerald
#97. Agape is disinterested love ... Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes ... Therefore, agape makes no distinction between friend and enemy; it is directed toward both.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#98. A sister is a dearest friend, a closest enemy, and an angel at the time of need.
Debasish Mridha
#99. Obstacles are not opposing you, but merely and gently re-routing you. It is important not to view that which stands in your way as your 'enemy.' It can often be your best friend, sending you on a detour that takes you around what would have been your biggest stumbling block.
Neale Donald Walsch
#100. Go my friend
bestow your love
even on your enemies
if you touch their hearts
what do you think will happen.
Rumi
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