Quote by Source Unknown

Never explain yourself. Your friend don't need it and your enemies won't believe it.

Never explain yourself. Your friend don't need it and your e

Summary

This quote suggests the futility of offering explanations about oneself. It communicates that your true friends understand and trust you without needing justifications for your actions or decisions. On the other hand, your enemies, driven by bias or ill intentions, wouldn't believe your explanations regardless of their truthfulness. Therefore, the quote advises against wasting time and energy on futile explanations that are unlikely to change perceptions or win over enemies, while emphasizing the importance of surrounding yourself with understanding and supportive friends.

Topics

By Source Unknown

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his overanimation. One can either see or be seen.

John Updike, SelfConsciousness:

In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was

In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billio

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man'

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.

Abraham Lincoln

Man Character Independence Buildup

I once owned a really, really ugly pair of white leather boo

I once owned a really, really ugly pair of white leather boots. They were so bad. It was back in the '80s! It was just a really tacky fashion choice when I was in middle school, and I thought it was cool. I'm really embarrassed.

Jordana Brewster

He who praises every body, praises nobody.

He who praises every body, praises nobody.

My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have wa

My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.

Jamie Lee Curtis

The funny thing is that I write and I act a lot about being

The funny thing is that I write and I act a lot about being Jewish, but I don't really think about it as a regular person.

Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and other

Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000.

when you are surrounded by sheep then it is easy to become o

when you are surrounded by sheep then it is easy to become one yourself.

Stephen Richards

Individuality Individualism Change Within

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridicule

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer