Friend Enemy Quotes

Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time.

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

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

It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.

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

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

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.

Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn.

It is this law of love and its recognition as a rule of conduct in all our relations with friends, enemies and offenders which must inevitably bring about the complete transformation of the existing order of things, not only among Christian nations, but among all the peoples of the globe

If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate.

Normally we divide the external world into that which we consider to be good or valuable, bad or worthless, or neither. Most of the time these discriminations are incorrect or have little meaning. For example, our habitual way of categorizing people as friends, enemies, and strangers depending on how they make us feel is both incorrect and a great obstacle to developing impartial love for all living beings. Rather than holding so tightly to our discriminations of the external world, it would be much more beneficial if we learned to discriminate between valuable and worthless states of mind.

Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies.

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.

Your Worst Enemy Could Be Your Best Friend && Your Best Friend Your Worst Enemy

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

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

When you start working, everybody is in your studio- the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas- all are there. But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you are lucky, even you leave.

Never take anything for granted.

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

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

True friends stab you in the front.

The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

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

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

He who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

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

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Real friends stab you in the front.

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity.

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.