Enemy Quote by Sophocles Download Open image “An enemy's gift is ruinous and no gift.” — Sophocles ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Enemy Funny Inspirational Love
Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving; and procures contempt Instead of gratitude. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
A gift involves sacrifice. If you give away something that you no longer value or want, it cannot be a gift. It is simply… — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
With gifts, you may gather your enemies about you. When giving nothing, even your own family will leave. — Sakya Pandita Copy Share Image
A gift that cannot be given away ceases to be a gift. The spirit of a gift is kept alive by its constant donation. — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
The greatest grace of a gift, perhaps, is that it anticipates and admits of no return. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time. — Stephanie S. Tolan Copy Share Image
Sometimes your gift takes you to a place that your character is not prepared to handle. — Kwame Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
Gifts are not favors. If you expect something in return, it's not a gift. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Why should man fear since chance is all in all for him, and he can clearly foreknow nothing? Best to live lightly, as one… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals? — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
It is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy's one, to surround him; if five to one, to attack… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
The surprise of an army is now next to an impossibility. ... Prearranged surprises are rare and difficult because in order to plan one… — Antoine-Henri Jomini Copy Share Image
The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
Pain held no terror for him. Pain was, if not friend, then family, something he had grown up with in his crèche, learning to… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
To achieve victory we must mass our forces at the hub of all power & movement. The enemy's 'Center of Gravity' — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
In this business, you find the enemy, then go after and destroy him. Everything else is rubbish! — Eddie Rickenbacker Copy Share Image
