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Enemies Quotes and Sayings

Enemies are so stimulating
Katharine Hepburn

Keep your enemies in front of you
Chris Matthews

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names
John F. Kennedy

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth
Albert Einstein.

He hasn’t an enemy in the world – but all his friends hate him
Eddie Cantor

Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much
Oscar Wilde

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies
Oscar Wilde.

We can learn even from our enemies
Ovid.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Abraham Lincoln

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have
Abraham Lincoln.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend
Abraham Lincoln.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake
Napoleon Bonaparte.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere
Ralph Waldo Emerson.

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends
Sir Francis Bacon.

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him
Aesop.

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment
Andre Maurois.

I’ve always said that in politics, your enemies can’t hurt you, but your friends will kill you
Ann Richards.

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults
Antisthenes.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends
Baltasar Gracian.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them
Benjamin Franklin.

Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway
Elbert Hubbard.

It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best
E.R. Bulwer-Lytton.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you
Eric Hoffer.

There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy
George Washington.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names
John F. Kennedy.

The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he’s on
Joseph Heller.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you
Mark Twain.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend
Martin Luther King

We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends
Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies
Moshe Dayan.

Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him
Benjamin Franklin.

You and I were long friends : you are now my enemy, and I am yours
Benjamin Franklin.

The nearest I can make it out, “Love your Enemies” means, “Hate your Friends”
Benjamin Franklin.

Lord, defend me from my friends; I can account for my enemies
Charles D’Hericault.

Money can’t buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy
Spike Milligan.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us
Thich Nhat Hanh.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes
Thomas Jefferson.

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life
Winston Churchill.

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