#Enemies Quotes

“My brain more busy than the labouring spider Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies.”

“Our enemies are our outward consciences.”

“Whoever is sitting with friends is in the midst of a flower garden, though he may be in the fire. Whoever sits with an enemy is in the fire, even though he is in the midst of a garden.”

“So each man, like each plant, has his parasites. A strong, astringent, bilious nature has more truculent enemies than the slugs and moths that fret my leaves. Such a one has curculios, borers, knife-worms; a swindler ate him first, then a client, then a quack, then smooth, plausible gentlemen, bitter and selfish as Moloch.”

“Marry, sir, they praise me and make an ass of me. Now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass; so that by my foes, sir, I profit in the knowledge of myself, any by my friends I am abused; so that, conclusions to be as kisses, if your four negatives make your two affirmatives, why then, the worse for my friends, and the better for my foes.”

“I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.”

“If you want to make enemies, try to change something.”

“So long as all is ordered for attack, and that alone, leaders will instinctively increase the number of enemies that they may give their followers something to do.”

“There's no doubt that I've deserved my enemies, but I don't think I've deserved my friends.”

“I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.”

“Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.”

“The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.”

“Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never.”

“Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons.”

“You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.”

“An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.”

“You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.”

“May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.”

“Set me up, wet me up, niggas stuck me up...Heard the guns bust, but you tricks never shut me up.”

“Will my enimies flee when they see me? Belive me, even thugz gotta learn to take it easy!”

“It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes.”

“Love all men, even your enemies; love them, not because they are your brothers, but that they may become your brothers. Thus you will ever burn with fraternal love, both for him who is already your brother and for your enemy, that he may by loving become your brother.”

“Go my friendbestow your loveeven on your enemiesif you touch their heartswhat do you think will happen.”

“You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can your enemy so hurt you by his violence, as you hurt yourself if you love him not.”

“Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.”

“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.”

“An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.”

“A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.”

“Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.”

“My enemies make appointments at my tomb.”

“To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.”

“Love your enemy, it will scare the hell out of them.”

“Never interfere with an enemy in the process of destroying himself.”

“You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.”

“To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend.”

“I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.”

“People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”

“We should always go before our enemies with confidence, otherwise our apparent uneasiness inspires them with greater boldness.”

“While my friend was my friend, he flattered me, and I never heard the truth from him. When he became my enemy, he shot it to me on a poisoned arrow.”

“Let us be practical and ask the question: How do we love our enemies?”

“Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.”

“You must never believe that the enemy does not know how to conduct his own affairs. Indeed, if you want to be deceived less and want to bear less danger, the more the enemy is weak or the less the enemy is cautious, so much more must you esteem him.”

“The most constant, the most powerful, and the most generous of all my enemies.”

“When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.”

“Better to have an open enemy, than hidden friends.”

“I'm thinking of love in action and not something where you say, "Love your enemies," and just leave it at that, but you love your enemies to the point that you're willing to sit-in at a lunch counter in order to help them find themselves. You're willing to go to jail.”

“I hold it to be of great prudence for men to abstain from threats and insulting words towards any one, for neither the one nor the other in any way diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious, and the other increases his hatred of you, and makes him more persevering in his efforts to injure you”

“Your friends may love you in private but your enemies will hate you in public.”

“If an enemy strikes your left cheek, offer him your right.”

“Believe me, a thousand friends suffice thee not; In a single enemy thou hast more than enough.”