Top 100 Quotes About Friends Enemies
#1. When you start working, everybody is in your studio- the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas- all are there. But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you are lucky, even you leave.
John Cage
#2. It is this law of love and its recognition as a rule of conduct in all our relations with friends, enemies and offenders which must inevitably bring about the complete transformation of the existing order of things,
not only among Christian nations, but among all the peoples of the globe
Leo Tolstoy
#3. I think our brain is our soul. I don't believe in after-life and much less in a sort of buildings-like heaven, where you meet friends, enemies, relatives.
Margherita Hack
#4. If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate.
Cate Blanchett
#6. My friends call me Wrath," says Raffe. "My enemies call me Please Have Mercy. What's your name, soldier boy?
Susan Ee
#8. A true man loves his enemies as much he loves his friends.
Santosh Kalwar
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. There's no doubt that I've deserved my enemies, but I don't think I've deserved my friends.
Walt Whitman
#12. 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
#13. Best friends make the worst enemies, they know all your secrets and how to hurt you the most.
Alyson Noel
#14. He who learns from his enemies is as wise
as he who learns from his friends.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#15. Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies.
Kofi Abrefa Busia
#16. 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
#17. More people have been ruined by their upright friends than ever have been by their enemies!
Leslie Ford
#18. I don't need friends. All they do is eat your food, drink your beer, then spew your secrets the first time you do something that displeases them. No offense, but when you have as many enemies as I do, you keep your secrets under lock and key. (Solin)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#19. 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
#20. Take no duty of the Guard lightly. Friends must not be enemies
Just as enemies must not be friends.
Discerning the two is a life's work.
David Petersen
#21. You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.
Blaise Pascal
#22. Choose your friends carefully but don't worry about your enemies, they will choose you
Carl Henegan
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. The world will see the peace when we will understand that there are no enemies but there are friends who don't understand me.
Debasish Mridha
#26. 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
#27. Sometimes the simplest solution out of conflict is becoming someone's friend, instead of saying goodbye forever.
Shannon L. Alder
#28. Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends
Alexis De Tocqueville
#29. Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war; and this lesson saves their children, their homes, and their properties.
Aristophanes
#30. I do not need any friends. I prefer enemies. They are better company and their feelings towards you are always genuine.
Dylan Thomas
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.
Joseph Conrad
#34. 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
#35. The attack of an enemy is easier to fend off than the betrayal of a friend.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#36. People change. Feelings fade. Lovers drift. Friends leave. Friends become enemies. Lovers become strangers.
You'll be judged. but still Life Goes On.
Lovely Goyal
#37. Enemies are, to me, as important as friends in my life, and when they die I mourn their passing.
Jessica Mitford
#38. The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential - and enemies to push us beyond it.
Robert Breault
#39. I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.
Arnold Bennett
#40. Me against enemies, me against friends. Somehow theyboth seem to become one
Nicki Minaj
#41. You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
Gilles Deleuze
#42. 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
#43. Friends change. Enemies change. Acquaintances change. God alone does not change.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#44. 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
#45. We are not enemies but we are just hostile to each other because of our different views and opinions.
Auliq Ice
#46. Keep your friends close, your enemies closer, and the junk food as far away as possble.
Krista Scott-Dixon
#47. Kindness can turn the bad man's heart, and fools convert to wise, Make poison into nectar-juice, and friends of enemies.
Bhartrhari
#48. 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
#49. Love your enemies and hate your friends, your enemies remain the same your friends always change
50 Cent
#50. Isn't the real scandal not that our religious leaders might be imagined walking across a road or talking as friends together in a bar, but rather that their followers are found speaking against one another as enemies, day after day in situation after situation?
Brian D. McLaren
#51. 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
#52. My life in politics has taught me that the only thing more difficult than fighting against our enemies is taking questions from my friends." Amid knowing chuckles, he promised, "Nonetheless, I shall do my best.
Richard North Patterson
#54. I'd rather have an enemy who admits that they hate me, than a friend who secretly puts me down.
Karen Salmansohn
#55. Food is about agriculture, about ecology, about man's relationship with nature, about the climate, about nation-building, cultural struggles, friends and enemies, alliances, wars, religion. It is about memory and tradition and, at times, even about sex.
Mark Kurlansky
#56. Even from enemies much can be learned by the intelligent,
More in fact than from our friends.
Aristophanes
#57. It's not your enemies who condemn you to solitude, it's your friends
Milan Kundera
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. Regardless of the perpetual battle between believers and atheists, for me, religion is a tool of making friends, rather than making enemies.
Abhijit Naskar
#61. The zeal of friends it is that razes me, And not the hate of enemies.
Friedrich Schiller
#62. 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
#63. 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
#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. It's not your enemies who are likeliest to hurt you. It is, always, those you trust.
Rachel Caine
#66. Potential enemies make the best friends and lovers. Many a blessed union begins in adversity.
Randy Thornhorn
#67. Only fools wait when their enemies are coming, to see if they may prove to be friends.
Philippa Gregory
#68. 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
#69. We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
G.K. Chesterton
#70. 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
#71. It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.
Charles Caleb Colton
#72. 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
#73. Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.
Orson Scott Card
#74. 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
#75. If a normally kind, agreeable person makes an enemy of you, you ought to ask yourself why.
Joyce Rachelle
#76. Always more enemies, and fewer friends. Blood gets you nothing but more blood.
Joe Abercrombie
#77. No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#78. People with lies could never make friends. But people with trust could never make enemies. Both
Pepper Winters
#79. 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
#80. We choose our friends; our enemies choose us.
Marty Rubin
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
William Temple
#87. 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
#88. Your friends and enemies are defined the moment you come to this world.
M.F. Moonzajer
#89. Of course I don't understand. You never let anyone in. Not me. Not Sevro. Look how you treated Mustang. You drive friends away as though they were enemies.
Pierce Brown
#90. 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
#91. If every mortal looked at others as their friends, not as their enemies, the world would be a much better place, wouldn't it?
Morgan Rhodes
#92. God guard me from my friends, for I shall guard myself from my enemies.
James Howell
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter ? hug ?em so tight they can?t wiggle.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#98. He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him.
Charles Caleb Colton
#99. A business career for a woman and her need for a woman's life as wife and mother, are not enemies at all, unless we make them so, but may be the closest and most co-operative friends and supporter of each other.
Hortense Odlum
#100. If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
Moshe Dayan
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