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Quotes about Enemies

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

Related topics: Friendship Relationship Government Political

Love your enemies.
- Jesus (Matthew 5:44)

We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

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I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln

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

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

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
- Oscar Wilde

You have heard that it was said,
"Love your neighbor and hate your enemy."
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44

(Jesus on Love)
You have heard that it was said,
"Love your neighbor and hate your enemy."
But I tell you: Love your enemies
and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44

Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive.
He who is devoid of the power to forgive
is devoid of the power to love.
There is some good in the worst of us
and some evil in the best of us.
When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world
that we must love our enemies - or else?
The chain reaction of evil -
hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars -
must be broken, or else we shall be plunged
into the dark abyss of annihilation.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Enemy Quotes and Sayings

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

Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache;
do be my enemy - for friendship's sake.
- William Blake

A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father;
to his wife, but as a husband;
to his enemy, but upon terms:
whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires,
and not as it sorteth with the person.
- Francis Bacon

Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard

Money Quotes and Sayings

A lifelong friend is someone
you haven't borrowed money from yet.
- Anonymous

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler

Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet
and steady and loyal and enduring a nature
that it will last through a whole lifetime,
if not asked to lend money.
- Mark Twain

Friend Quotes and Sayings

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou

Well, it seems to me that the best relationships -
the ones that last -
are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.
You know, one day you look at the person
and you see something more than you did the night before.
Like a switch has been flicked somewhere.
And the person who was just a friend is...
suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.
- Dana Scully

A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer

A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau

The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley

The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau

The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson

A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love our friend for their sakes
rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte

A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin

When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran

Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature
to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn

Do not use a hatchet to remove
a fly from your friend's forehead.
- Chinese Proverb

A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts

A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10

In everyone's life, at some time,
our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame
by an encounter with another human being.
We should all be thankful for those people
who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer

Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -
and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck

A friend is someone who will bail you out of jail.
A best friend is the one sitting next
to you saying "boy was that fun."
- The Maugles

You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous

A friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault

A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve

Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings

So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman

A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford

A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus


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