Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Enemies.
Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.
Benjamin Franklin
I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember.
Gerald R. Ford
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.
Oscar Wilde
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them
Abraham Lincoln
The enemy is more easily overcome if he be not suffered to enter the door of our hearts, but be resisted without the gate at his first knock.
Thomas Kempis
You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
Joseph Conrad
Bear patiently with a rival.
Ovid
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
African Proverb
Even a paranoid can have enemies.
Henry Kissinger
An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
Thomas Jefferson
Forget your opponents; always play against par.
Sam Snead
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
William Blake
Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
Bruce Lee
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
Plato
If people think nature is their friend then they sure don't need an enemy.
Kurt Vonnegut
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
Mahatma Gandhi
Anyway, just because you're sworn enemies doesn't mean you can't be friends, does it?
Terry Pratchett
I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.
Clare Boothe Luce
I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.
