Enemies (favourite quotations)

- Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? (Abraham Lincoln)

- If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.(Moshe Davan)

- You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to
frighten you. (Eric Hoffer)

- Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. (Napolean Bonaparte)

- Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. (Oscar Wilde)

- Listen to your enemy, for God is talking. (Jewish Proverb)

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

- He who seeks vengeance must dig two graves; one for his enemy and one ofr himself. (Chinese proverb)

- Do good to your friends to keep then, to your enemies to win them. (Benjamin Franklin)

- When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. (African proverb)

- I hate admitting that my enemies have a point. (Salman Rushdie)

- A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. (Friedrich von Schiller)

- Speak well of your enemies…you made them. (Anonymous)

- I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)

- Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker. (Frank Herbert)

- If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each man’s life
sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. (H.W.Longfellow)

- Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let
them feel the steadiness of your resentment. (Lord Chesterfield)

- The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The
supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to
fight them. (Lao Tzu)