I find that forgiving one's
enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure;
perhaps I should check it out.
— Oscar Wilde
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
— Abraham Lincoln
It
is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a
friend.
— William Blake
There is only one reason why
your enemy can't become your friend — YOU!
— Author Unknown
He
makes no friends who never made a foe.
— Lord Alfred Tennyson 1809-1892, British
Poet
He who has a thousand friends
has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him
everywhere.
— Ali ibn-Abi-Talib (602 AD - 661 AD)
Friends may come and go, but
enemies accumulate.
— Thomas Jones (1892 — 1969)
Friends are sometimes boring, but
enemies — never.
— Mason Cooley
There are people who pay
attention to the weaknesses of their friends;
that is to no avail. I have always closely
watched and profited from the strengths of my
adversaries.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I was angry with
my friend.
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe.
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
— William Blake
Keep your friends close, but
your enemies closer.
— Al Pacino in the movie The Godfather, Part II
(1974)
The enemy of my enemy is my
friend.
— Arabian Proverb
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.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The antidote for fifty enemies
is one friend.
— Aristotle
God save me from my friends — I
can protect myself from my enemies.
— Unknown Wise Person
Wounds from a friend can be
trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses.
— Proverbs 27:6
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
I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
— Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
He
[Bernard Shaw] hasn't an enemy in the world, and
none of his friends like him.
— Oscar Wilde
It takes your enemy and your
friend, working together, to hurt you to the
heart: the one to slander you and the other to
get the news to you.
— Mark Twain
In the End, we will remember not
the words of our enemies, but the silence of our
friends.
— Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
