ENEMIES

Quote: The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven t. This is to avoid the ghastly embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other the whole length of the corridor. Author: Douglas Adams 1952-, British Science Fiction Writer

Quote: Enemies promises were made to be broken. Author: Aesop 620-560 BC, Greek Fabulist

Quote: There once was a Bald Man who sat down after work on a hot summer's day. A Fly came up and kept buzzing about his bald pate, and stinging him from time to time. The Man aimed a blow at his little enemy, but - whack - his palm come on his own head instead; again the Fly tormented him, but this time the Man was wiser and said: ''YOU WILL ONLY INJURE YOURSELF IF YOU TAKE NOTICE OF DISPICABLE ENEMIES.'' Author: Aesop 620-560 BC, Greek Fabulist

Quote: We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction. Author: Aesop 620-560 BC, Greek Fabulist

Quote: Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults. Author: Antisthenes 388-311 BC, Greek Dramatist

Quote: Pay attention to your enemies for they are the first to discover your mistakes. Author: Antisthenes 388-311 BC, Greek Dramatist

Quote: Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults Author: Antisthenes 388-311 BC, Greek Dramatist

Quote: Wise men learn many things from their enemies. Author: Aristophanes BC 448-380, Greek Comic Poet, Satirist

Quote: Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you. [Matthew] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

Quote: When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend. Author: William Blake 1757-1827, British Poet, Painter

Quote: It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best. Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton 1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet

Quote: If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown. Author: Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

Quote: Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within. Author: Miguel De Cervantes 1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

Quote: We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us. Author: Oswald Chambers 1874-1917 Scottish Preacher, Author

Quote: The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts. Author: William Ellery Channing 1780-1842, American Unitarian Minister, Author

Quote: Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment. Author: Lord Chesterfield 1694-1773, British Statesman, Author

Quote: Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy -- the mother. Author: Claudette Colbert

Quote: You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends. Author: Joseph Conrad 1857-1924, Polish-born British Novelist

Quote: A strong foe is better than a weak friend. Author: Edward Dahlberg 1900-1977, American Author, Critic

Quote: It is not necessary to have enemies if you go out of your way to make friends hate you. Author: Frank Dane

Quote: Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards. Author: R A Dickson

Quote: There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck. Author: Euripides BC 480-406, Greek Tragic Poet

Quote: I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember. Author: Gerald R. Ford 1913-, Thirty-eighth President of the USA

Quote: I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people. Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

Quote: Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults. Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

Quote: Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies. Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

Quote: No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

Quote: A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends. Author: Baltasar Gracian 1601-1658, Spanish Philosopher, Writer

Quote: I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends. They're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights! Author: Warren Gamaliel Harding 1865-1923, American Republican Politician, President

Quote: Enemies are so stimulating. Author: Katharine Hepburn 1907-, American Actress, Writer

Quote: One enemy is too much. Author: George Herbert 1593-1632, British Metaphysical Poet

Quote: No man should ever display his bravery unless he is prepared for battle, nor bear the marks of defiance, until he has experienced the abilities of his enemy. Author: Hitopadesa 600?-1100? AD, Sanskrit Fable From Panchatantra

Quote: If it looks like shit, smells like shit, mail it to your enemy... he'll know what to do with it. Author: Doug Horton

Quote: Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him. Author: Ernest Jones 1879-1958, British Psychoanalyst

Quote: We have meet the enemy; and he is us. Author: Walt Kelly 1913-1973, American Animator, Strip Cartoonist

Quote: The enemy is more easily overcome if he be not suffered to enter the door of our hearts, but be resisted without the gate at his first knock. Author: Thomas p Kempis 1379-1471, German Monk, Mystic, Religious Writer

Quote: It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. Author: Sally Kempton

Quote: Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. Author: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA

Quote: Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. Author: Stephen King 1947-, American Horror Writer, Actor

Quote: Even a paranoid can have enemies. Author: Henry Kissinger 1923-, American Republican Politician, Secretary of State

Quote: Our enemies approach nearer to truth in their judgments of us than we do ourselves. Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680, French Classical Writer

Quote: Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves. Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680, French Classical Writer

Quote: Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against. Author: Bruce Lee 1940-1973, Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist

Quote: The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend. Author: Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

Quote: I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me. Author: Clare Boothe Luce 1903-1987, American Diplomat, Writer

Quote: The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself. Author: Henry Miller 1891-1980, American Author

Quote: There is no stronger bond of friendship than a mutual enemy. Author: Frankfort Moore

Quote: The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people. Author: Christopher Morley 1890-1957, American Novelist, Journalist, Poet

Quote: He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life. Author: Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900, German Philosopher

Quote: Bear patiently with a rival. Author: Ovid BC 43-18 AD, Roman Poet

Quote: Five enemies of peace inhabit with us -- avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. Author: Francesco Petrarch 1304-1374, Italian Poet, Humanist

Quote: Man has no greater enemy than himself. Author: Francesco Petrarch 1304-1374, Italian Poet, Humanist

Quote: Talk well of your friends and of your enemies say nothing. Author: Proverb

Quote: When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. Author: African Proverb Sayings of African Origin

Quote: The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him. Author: Chinese Proverb Sayings of Chinese Origin

Quote: False friends are worst than bitter enemies. Author: Scottish Proverb Sayings of Scottish Origin

Quote: Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will. Author: Mary Caroline Richards

Quote: Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies? Nay, who but infants question in such wise, 'twas one of my most intimate enemies. Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-1882, British Poet, Painter

Quote: Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy. Author: N. F. Simpson

Quote: Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us. Author: Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher

Quote: 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. Author: Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

Quote: Convince an enemy, convince him that he's wrong. To win a bloodless battle, the victory is long. A simple act of faith, reason over might. To blow up his children would only prove him right. Author: Gordon Sumner

Quote: One must be a somebody before they can have a enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. Author: Anne Sophie Swetchine 1782-1857, Russian Author

Quote: One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good. Author: Jonathan Swift 1667-1745, Anglo-Irish Satirist

Quote: It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies. Author: Publilius Syrus 1st Century BC, Roman Writer

Quote: It pays to know the enemy -- not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend. Author: Margaret Thatcher 1925-, British Stateswoman, Prime Minister (1979-90)

Quote: A person is his own worst enemy. Author: Source Unknown

Quote: If thine enemy offend thee, give his child a drum. Author: Source Unknown

Quote: One reason we should love our enemies is that we made them ourselves. Another reason is that they keep us on our toes, a third reason is that we should make them our friends. Author: Source Unknown

Quote: Speak well of your enemies... you made them. Author: Source Unknown

Quote: In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it. Author: Voltaire 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer

Quote: I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends. Author: Walt Whitman 1819-1892, American Poet

Quote: A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit

Quote: The person who builds a character makes foes. Author: Young

Quote: KEEP YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS CLOSE. BUT YOUR ENEMIES EVEN CLOSER. Author: ANTONIO BEJERANO UNDERGROUND AUTHOR

Quote: If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything Author: winston churchill