Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend. — Rumi Copy Share Image
I have a most peaceable disposition. My desires are for a modest hut, a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food,… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Americans rouse - be unanimous, be virtuous, be firm, exert your courage, trust in Heaven, and nobly defy the enemies both of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The world shall know that I will keep my faith to friends and enemies, come what will. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Perhaps it would have been possible to see in him a new Prometheus...the hero who for the good of mankind exposes himself… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off. — James Longstreet Copy Share Image
I learned some invaluable lessons in Nashville that apply to both farming and show business: Do not corner something you know is… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
It's very clear from what he [Osama ben Laden] said, what his lieutenants have said, that America is not even their main… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
We are stronger than those who oppress us, who seek to silence us. We are stronger than the enemies of education. We… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
Get a friend to tell you your faults, or better still, welcome an enemy who will watch you keenly and sting you… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
If an enemy knows that the TRUTH will cause them to lose against you they'll fight you with LIES instead. — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
There are some people who imagine that they can disarm their enemy by complacent flattery. They are wrong. The world has always… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
My mother was okay with me not playing it safe. She made an agreement with my father that I was going to… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
Yes I know my enemies. They're the teachers who taught me to fight me, compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the… — Zack de la Rocha Copy Share Image
Because I cannot flatter and look fair, Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog, Duck with French nods and apish courtesy,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“An open enemy is always better than a fake family.Peace of mind in having an open enemy is always better than a… — Fahad Basheer Copy Share Image
The sons of York will destroy each other, one brother destroying another, uncles devouring nephews, fathers beheading sons. They are a house… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Enemy images are the main reason conflicts don't get resolved. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Military history shows air action only cannot achieve the goal of defeating an enemy. — Dan Coats Copy Share Image
A very few, as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men, serve the state with their conscience also, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Hamas has long been Israel's enemy, but in the wake of the Arab Spring, the group is empowered like never before. — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand. — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
The wolf is neither man's competitor nor his enemy. He is a fellow creature with whom the earth must be shared. — L. David Mech Copy Share Image
“If you know yourself but not your enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. - Teddy Sumner” — Ridley Pearson Copy Share Image
The beauty of work depends upon the way we meet it, whether we arm ourselves each morning to attack it as an… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
There is but one means to extenuate the effects of enemy fire: it is to develop a more violent fire oneself. — Ferdinand Foch Copy Share Image
The absence of a focal enemy, which is what the Cold War had provided; the complexity of the developments that are occurring… — Graham T. Allison Copy Share Image
It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy. — Hesiod Copy Share Image
The past is necessarily inferior to the future. That is how we wish it to be. How could we acknowledge any merit… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
“Unless you have completely destroyed your enemy, your survival is precarious” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
A serious pacifist approach can't win wars against enemies whose only program is violence. That doesn't mean I think the US has… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
By intensity of hatred, nations create in themselves the character that they imagine in their enemies. Hence it comes that all passionate… — George William Russell Copy Share Image
In my younger days, I was arrogant - jail helped me to get rid of it. I did nothing but make enemies… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image