Best Enemy Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 23

“I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.”

Feels Long Said Success Lying Certain Hate Enemy I Hate Praise Newspapers Assurance

Book:Essays and Lectures

Source: Essays and Lectures

“To some kind of men their graces serve them but as enemies.”

Men Kind Enemy Grace

Book:The Plays of William Shakspeare Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies, Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq. and Edmond Malone, Esq

Source: The Plays of William Shakspeare Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies, Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq. and Edmond Malone, Esq

“To conquer [our enemies] we must dare, and dare again, and dare for ever; and thus will France be saved”

Enemy Dare Saved Conquer France

Author:Georges Danton

“From Day One, I've told [my troops] that killing is not wrong if it's for a purpose, if it's to keep your nation free or protect your buddy, one of the most noble things you can do is kill the enemy.”

Ifs Purpose Nations Can Do Enemy Protect Killing Noble Troops Buddy

Author:Douglas A. Zembiec

“we're focusing too much energy on the symptom rather than the disease: Our real enemy is poverty, not welfare.”

Real Energy Enemy Poverty Too Much Disease Welfare Symptoms

Author:Cathy McMorris Rodgers

“A man's enemies are those he should endeavor first to make his friends.”

Men Should Firsts Enemy Endeavor

Author:Norm MacDonald

“Muslim brothers be damned; they're our greatest enemies. You know yourself that I'm a Muslim, even a fanatical Muslim. But that does nothing to alter my opinion of the Arabs.”

Knows Doe Opinion Enemy Brother Know Yourself

Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

“Growing terrorism, permissive societies, democracy collapsing through lack of law and order. If things continue on their present track, the disintegration of Western societies will occur much sooner than you think under the hammer blows of fascism and communism. Freedom is not something that does not have a breaking point, and your enemies would like you to reach that point.”

Ifs Thinking Doe Law Order Enemy Democracy Growing Like You Western Track Blow Terrorism Communism Fascism Hammers Law And Order Disintegration Western Society Point Break

Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

“The problems with willpower are many, but they may hardly be noticed by the person focused narrowly on success. First, there is little economy of means; in systems thinking terms, we act without leverage. We attain our goals, but the effort is enormous and we may find ourselves exhausted and wondering if it was worth it when we have succeeded. Ironically, people hooked on willpower may actually look for obstacles to overcome, dragons to slay, and enemies to vanquish--to remind themselves and others of their own prowess.”

“Though I admire republican principles in theory, yet I am afraid the practice may be too perfect for human nature. We tried a republic last century, and it failed. Let our enemies try next. I hate political experiments.”

Trying Humans May Lasts Political Hate Next Perfect Enemy Principles Practice Century Human Nature Theory Republican I Hate Experiments Admire Republic

Author:Robert Walpole

“The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.”

Enemy Controversy Obscurity

Author:William P. Young

“When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend.”

Men Two Women Enemy Wife Married Gains Sympathy Married Women One Friend

Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“The Nazi danger to our Western world has long ceased to be a mere possibility. The danger is here now--not only from a military enemy but from an enemy of all law, all liberty, all morality, all religion.”

World Long Law Liberty Enemy Military Danger Possibility Morality Mere Western Nazi Western World

Book:Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944

Source: Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944

“Consider an enemy may become a friend.”

May Enemy

Author:Seneca the Younger

“The biggest enemy of an artist is apathy... A kid gets killed by the police and I buy a T-shirt and before I can wear that one, there's another kid (killed) and I'm running out of closet space.”

I Can Running Kids Artist Space Enemy Police Shirts Apathy Closets T Shirt

Author:Dave Chappelle

“A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.”

Source: The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1778-1802

“The good-humor of a man elated with success often displays itself towards enemies.”

Men Enemy Display Good Humor

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“If appeasing our enemies is not the answer, neither is hating them.... Somewhere between the extremes of appeasement and hate there is a place for courage and strength to express themselves in magnanimity and charity, and this is the place we must find.”

Ifs Hate Answers Enemy Charity Extremes Magnanimity Appeasement

Author:Alfred Whitney Griswold

“I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.”

Should Pleasure Enemy Forgiving Checks Curious Morbid

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde

“To have the power of forgetting, for the time, self, friends, interests, relationship; and to think of doing right toward another, a stranger, an enemy, perhaps, is to have that which men can share only with the angels, and with Him who is above men and angels.”

Thinking Men Self Interest Justice Forget Enemy Share Angel Stranger Doing Right

Author:David Dudley Field II

“It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive looks and solemn faces.”

Looks Faces Religion Enemy Imagine Imagine That Severe Disgrace Solemn Cheerfulness Mirth Pensive

Author:Walter Scott

“Never yield to that temptation, which, to most young men, is very strong, of exposing other people's weaknesses and infirmities, for the sake either of diverting the company, or of showing your own superiority. You may get the laugh on your side by it for the present; but you will make enemies by it for ever; and even those who laugh with you then, will, upon reflection, fear, and consequently hate you.”

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“There is not a more prudent maxim, than to live with one's enemies as if they may one day become one's friends; as it commonly happens, sooner or later, in the vicissitudes of political affairs.”

Ifs May Happens Political Politics Enemy One Day Affair Sooner Or Later Maxims Prudent Vicissitudes

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“There is nothing so necessary, but at the same time there is nothing more difficult (I know it by experience) for you young fellows, than to know how to behave yourselves prudently towards those whom you do not like. Your passions are warm, and your heads are light; you hate all those who oppose your views, either of ambition or love; and a rival, in either, is almost a synonymous term for any enemy.”

Knows Light Young Hate Passion Difficult Term Views Enemy Know How Like You Behavior Ambition Fellows Warm Behave Rivals Rivalry

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“Good breeding and good nature do incline us rather to help and raise people up to ourselves, than to mortify and depress them, and, in truth, our own private interest concurs in it, as it is making ourselves so many friends, instead of so many enemies.”

People Helping Interest Enemy Friends Behavior Raises Manners Depressing Breeding Many Friends Incline Good Nature Good Breeding Concur

Book:The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

“One of the greatest difficulties in civil war is, that more art is required to know what should be concealed from our friends, than what ought to be done against our enemies.”

Knows Should Art War Done Enemy Friends Ought Art Is Difficulty Civil War Concealed

Book:The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

“All ceremonies are in themselves very silly things; but yet, a man of the world should know them. They are the outworks of Mannersand Decency, which would be too often broken in upon, if it were not for that defence, which keeps the enemy at a proper distance.”

Ifs Knows Men World Should Would Be Enemy Broken Distance Silly Ceremony Decency Defence Silly Things

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.”

People Thinking Hands Truth Enemy History Power Information Skillful Misuse Perversion

Author:John le Carre

“The religious cant that will send American troops into battle is perhaps the most sickening aspect of this surreal war-to-be. Bush has an arm-lock on God. And God has very particular political opinions. God appointed America to save the world in any way that suits America. God appointed Israel to be the nexus of America's Middle Eastern policy, and anyone who wants to mess with that idea is a) anti-Semitic, b) anti-American, c) with the enemy, and d) a terrorist.”

“Those who are not with Mr. Bush are against him. Worse, they are with the enemy. Which is odd, because I'm dead against Bush, but I would love to see Saddam's downfall -- just not on Bush's terms and not by his methods. And not under the banner of such outrageous hypocrisy.”

Term Enemy Method Odd Hypocrisy Saddam Outrageous Banner Downfall

Author:John le Carre

“A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.”

Enemy Clumsy Malicious

Author:Sophie Swetchine

“The absence of utopianism in the Constitution, law, and traditional political culture has been ... important in limiting expectations concerning what can be achieved by politics. The history of the last two centuries confirms what the framers of the Constitution understood: that the perfect is the enemy of the good, and the search for unalloyed virtue in public life leads to unalloyed terror.”

Has Beens Two Important Lasts Law Political Culture Perfect Enemy Virtue Century Expectations Understood Constitution Terror Absence Traditional Public Life Framers Political Culture

Author:Jeane Kirkpatrick

“A man who tries to make the workmen believe that their employers are their natural enemies is indeed the worst enemy of workmen. For the employees of yesterday are the employers of today, and the employees of today can and will partly be the employers of tomorrow.”

Men Trying Believe Today Natural Enemy Worst Tomorrow Yesterday Employee Employers Worst Enemy Workmen Natural Enemies

Author:William J. H. Boetcker

“The essence of any plan for financing old age is saving-to put aside some part of today's earnings for the future. Anything that saps the value of savings-and inflation is the worst single threat-is the enemy of the aged and of those who expect to grow old.”

Age Today Values Grows Enemy Plans Worst Essence Aging Threat Old Age Saving Earning Inflation Savings Sap Financing

Author:Bernard Baruch

“We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies; but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful things, who does not know that others call it the only secure harbor from the storm and tempests of life, the sovereign good of nature, the sole support of liberty, and the common and sudden remedy of all evils?”

Knows Doe Death Evil Common Grief Liberty Enemy Poverty Support Storm Secure Sole Remedy Principal Sovereign Harbors Tempest

Book:Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: In Three Books with Marginal Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator,

Source: Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: In Three Books with Marginal Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator,

“Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy.”

Consciousness Enemy Destiny Oneself My Destiny

Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Fighting with anybody is very dangerous because you become like your enemy.”

Fighting Enemy Dangerous Like You Foundation

Author:Rajneesh

“Prudence advises us to use our enemies as if one day they might be friends.”

Ifs Use Might Enemy One Day Prudence Advise

Author:Margaret of Valois

“The greatest Enemies of the Equity investor are Expenses and Emotions.”

Emotion Enemy Investing Expenses Investors Equity

Author:Warren Buffett