Enemy Quotes
Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
Bierce, Ambrose
When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover.
Billings, Josh
The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.
Breton, Nicholas
I wish my deadly foe no worse, Than want of friends, and empty purse.
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Robert
Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.
Cicero
Man is his own worst enemy.
Fowler, Gene
Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.
Franklin, Benjamin
There is no little enemy.
Halifax, Lord
Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.
Harris, Sidney J.
Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled down into the quicksand of smugness and self-satisfaction.
Hoffer, Eric
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Howe, Ed
You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.
Hubbard, Elbert
An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.
Hubbard, Elbert
If you have no enemies, you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.
Kelly, Walt
We have met the enemy and he is us.
Lavater, Johann Kaspar
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.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Nagarjuna
Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
Nagarjuna
Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
Petrarch, Francesco
Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: viz., avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
Piatt, Don
A man's greatness can be measured by his enemies.
Shutts, Frank B.
One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy.
Wilde, Oscar
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.