Enemy Quotes - Page 105

Friendly counsel cuts off many foes.

Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.

He hath disgrac'd me and hind'red me half a million; laugh'd at my losses, mock'd at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated my enemies. And what's his reason? I am a Jew.

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

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy.

I have trod a measure, I have flattered a lady, I have been politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy.

Every man is his own greatest dupe.

The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.

Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him.

Amid the stirring and manifold activities of the age in which we live, to be neutral in the strife is to rank with the enemies of the Saviour. There is no greater foe to the spread of His cause in the world than the placid indifferentism which is too honorable to betray, while it is too careless or too cowardly to join Him.

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.

A certain excess of animal spirits with thoughtless good-humor will often make more enemies than the most deliberate spite and ill-nature, which is on its guard, and strikes with caution and safety.

It is no policy to let thy lusts have arms, which are sure to rise and declare against thee when thine enemy comes.

You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance," Domingo said.

The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely the bed they self-exhaust each other on.

The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.

Honor is a public enemy, and conscience a domestic, and he that would secure his pleasure, must pay a tribute to one and go halves with t'other.

Never undervalue the enemies, especially if they are stupid.

Never underestimate the enemy, above all if he is a stupid one and deserves to be killed.

O God, protect me from my friends, that they have not power over me. Thou hast giv'n me power to protect myself from thy bitterest enemies.

Like all right-listening folk, I am an implacable enemy of all muzak.

The novelist, quite rightly, fears the psychoanalyst as both an enemy and a usurper.

Cities are made for enemies to destroy.

Serving your enemies is the fastest way to learn to love them.