Enemy Quotes

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If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose… — Diogenes
Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies. — Luc de Clapiers
I cannot get any sense of an enemy - only of a disaster. — D. H. Lawrence
Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Death is the gate of life. Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew… — Bernard of Clairvaux
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The founder of every creed from Jesus Christ to Karl Marx, would be appalled to return to earth and see what has been made of… — Sydney J. Harris
CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. When Zeno was told that one of his enemies was no more he… — Ambrose Bierce
When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover. — Ambrose Bierce
Time isn't the enemy. Fear of change is. Accept that nothing lasts forever and you'll start to appreciate the advantages of whatever age you are… — Oprah Winfrey
None but yourself who are your greatest foe. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is good to be taught even by an enemy — Unknown Author
America is not fighting to win a war. We are fighting to give an application to an old Greek proverb, which is that the purpose… — Arthur Goldberg
Your friend, your enemy, your neutral all are equal. Genuine compassion is unbiased. — Dalai Lama
The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction; and he who writes honestly is no more an enemy to the offender than… — John Dryden
There is nothing that deceives us more than our own judgment when used to give an opinion on our own works. It is sound in… — Leonardo da Vinci
Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. — William Cowper
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age! — John Milton
Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions. — Aesop

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