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Enemy Quotes - Page 46

Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.

Josh Billings (1874). “Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor”, p.211

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth, Deane Swift (1768). “Letters Written By The Late Jonathan Swift, D. D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin; And Several Of His Friends: From The Year 1703 To 1740”, p.174

If you're not your own severest critic, you are your own worst enemy.

Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.1, New Riders

We plan alone but we fulfill our plans together with the enemy, as it were, in accordance with his opposition.

"How Wars End: Eye-witness Accounts of the Fall of Berlin" by Vladimir Sevruk, (p. 27), 1974.

The savage hatred I feel for crowds is getting worse, natural enemies that they are of imagination and of thought.

Isabelle Eberhardt (2003). “The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt”, Interlink Publishing Group Incorporated

Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

Henri Nouwen (2013). “Lifesigns: Intimacy, Fecundity, and Ecstasy in Christian Perspective”, p.18, Image

Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.

Guy de Maupassant (2015). “Mademoiselle Fifi and Other Stories - Bilingual Edition (English / French): An Adventure in Paris, Boule de Suif, Rust, Marroca, The Log, The Relic, Words of Love, Christmas Eve, Two Friends, Am I Insane?...”, p.76, e-artnow

When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.

George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.131, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt