Enemy Quote by Salman Rushdie

“Confucius: If you sit by the river for long enough, the body of your enemy will float by.”

— Salman Rushdie

“If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.”

— Sun Tzu

“What does the proverb say? 'Let things of long ago drift away on the water.”

— Alan Brennert

“The commander of a mighty army can be captured, but the aspiration of an ordinary man can never be seized. —Confucius”

— Evan Osnos

“Sometimes I float along the river For its surface I am bound And there are times stones done fill my pockets And it's into…

— T.J. Klune

“A ruler who failed to manage China’s waters didn’t just risk social decay. He exposed himself to the charge that heaven itself had lost…

— Philip Ball

“When the river rises, sometimes the only thing to do is float.”

— Redden Sanders

“Legend has it that while drinking wine in a boat on the river, [8th century Chinese poet Li Po] tried to grab the moon's…

— Matthew White

“What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others. —Confucius”

— Steven D. Price

“Life is a river,' he once told me, 'and we all have to find a boat that floats.”

— Thad Carhart

The Chinese said of themselves several thousand years ago: China is a sea that salts all the waters that flow into it. Theres another…

— Winston Churchill

“Among his own country folk Confucius wore a homely look, like one that has no word to say.”

— Confucius