ENEMY

Related Subjects: Hatred, Jealousy, Opposition, Revenge, Rivalry, War

1. While I see many hoof-marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again.—AESOP, The Lion, the Fox, and the Beasts
   

2. You will only injure yourself if you take notice of despicable enemies.—AESOP, The Bald Man and the Fly
   

3. Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions.—AESOP, The Tortoise and the Birds
   

4. Rejoice not over thy greatest enemy being dead, but remember that we die all.—Apocrypha: Ecclesiasticus
   

5. Believe me, a thousand friends suffice thee not;
   In a single enemy thou hast more than enough.—ALI BEN ABOU TALEB
   

6. If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.—Bible, Romans 12:20
   

7. A man's worst enemies are those
   Of his own house and family.—BLAKE, Jerusalem
   

8. They love him most for the enemies he has made.—E. S. BRAGG
   

9. You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.—JOSEPH CONRAD, Lord Jim
   

10. Nobody's enemy but his own.—DICKENS, David Copperfield
    

11. Life'd not be worth livin' if we didn't keep our inimies.—F. P. DUNNE, On New Year's Resolutions
    

12. One enemy is too much.—GEORGE HERBERT, Jacula Prudentum

13. If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.—LONGFELLOW, Driftwood
    

14. You have no enemies, you say?
    Alas! my friend, the boast is poor—
    He who has mingled in the fray
    Of duty, that the brave endure,
    Must have made foes! If you have none,
    Small is the work that you have done;
    You've hit no traitor on the hip;
    You've dashed no cup from perjured lip;
    You've never turned the wrong to right—
    You've been a coward in the fight!—CHARLES MACKAY
    

15. My nearest
    And dearest enemy.—THOMAS MIDDLETON, Anything for a Quiet Life
    

16. The enemy has no definite name, though in a certain degree we all know him. He who puts always the body before the spirit, the dead before the living; who makes things only in order to sell them; who has forgotten that there is such a thing as truth, and measures the world by advertisement or by money; who daily defiles the beauty that surrounds him and makes vulgar the tragedy.—GILBERT MURRAY, Religio Grammatici
    

17. Though thy enemy seem a mouse, yet watch him like a lion.—Proverb
    

18. One adversary may do us more harm than a great many friends can do us good.—Proverb
    

19. Make a golden bridge for a flying enemy.—Proverb

20. If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him.—Proverb

21. It is good to strike the serpent's head with your enemy's hand.—Proverb

22. If we be enemies to ourselves, whither shall we fly?—Proverb

23. He that dallies with his enemy gives him leave to kill him.—Proverb

24. Best dealing with an enemy when you take him at his weakest.—Proverb

25. All men think their enemies ill men.—Proverb

26. No tears are shed when an enemy dies.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae

27. It is an unhappy lot which finds no enemies.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae

28. He makes no friend who never made a foe.—TENNYSON,Idylls of the King