Enemy Friendship Quotes & Sayings

President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them?" asked an associate. "You should try to destroy them." "Am I not destroying my enemies," Lincoln gently replied, "when I make them my friends?" — Abraham Lincoln

There is no stronger bond of friendship than a mutual enemy. — Frank Frankfort Moore

I'd rather have an enemy who admits that they hate me, than a friend who secretly puts me down. — Karen Salmansohn

To say that a man is your Friend means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. — Henry David Thoreau

If you truly want to know a person, talk to their enemies. — Jamie Leanne Gaines

Sooner or later, life teaches us to forgive. In my case, life taught me that fairly early on, but that doesn't matter. I'm prepared to forgive the enemy, I'm prepared to forgive everyone, just so that I can return to my own home. I hope that this will happen one day and that the enemy will understand my desire for all of us to live in peace, happiness, friendship and love, because that is the essence of human life. 'Are — Atka Reid

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. — Martin Luther King Jr.

True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, in the enjoyment of one's self, and, in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. — Joseph Addison

If a normally kind, agreeable person makes an enemy of you, you ought to ask yourself why. — Joyce Rachelle

It's more dangerous to have a friend then it is to have an enemy. — James Jean-Pierre

We get along like a house on fire these days. — Rebecca McNutt

Because I had goodwill for all, I thought all were my friends, and then I learned of treachery, that some preferred my end. A glorious day, the one I learned the meaning of the word. It's good to know my enemies, though their reasons are absurd. — Vanna Bonta

Sometimes the silence of your friends is worse than your enemy's words. — Shannon L. Alder

So at twelve, I discovered that alcohol could dull pain and saw it as a friend. It was only in later years I realized that a friendship with a bottle can overnight turn into a relationship with the enemy. — Toni Maguire

This sutura gives example about the purpose of relationship. A son of enemy who wants to uproot his own father, should be treated as friend and shold be protected. This may be called opportunism but is and should be necessary part of polity and statesmanship. Moreover, if a father is not aan upright man to have friendship with his sone can be a meritorious peson. So it is better to protecdt him. — Chanakya

Ignorance fears diversity as an invading enemy, while wisdom welcomes diversity in an alliance of friendship. — Wes Fesler

It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends. — Mahatma Gandhi

While my friend was my friend, he flattered me, and I never heard the truth from him. When he became my enemy, he shot it to me on a poisoned arrow. — Henry David Thoreau

The enemy of my enemy is also my enemy. A dark lord has no friends. — Paul Dale

Friendship, then, like the other natural loves, is unable to save itself. In reality, because it is spiritual and therefore faces a subtler enemy, it must, even more wholeheartedly than they, invoke the divine protection if it hopes to remain sweet. For consider how narrow its true path is. Is must not become what the people call a "mutual admiration society"; yet if it is not full of mutual admiration, of Appreciative love, it is not Friendship at all. — C.S. Lewis

An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth,
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends. — Oscar Wilde

If you want to keep a secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend. — Benjamin Franklin

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

Persecution happens when we stand in the face of our enemy. Friendship with the world is to conspire with that same enemy. — Brian Reynolds

Friendship's enemy is betrayal. — Toba Beta

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. — William Blake

When we become acquainted with any person on a human level, even a great enemy, we begin to see that no person is really so different from ourselves. — Bryant McGill

Never divulge secrets to acquaintances.
Never betray old friends for new ones.
Never mistake flattery for praise.
Never rely on dishonorable people.
Never trust your enemy's friends.
Never mistake someone's kindness for weakness. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake. — William Blake

Invite your friend to a feast, but leave your enemy alone; and especially invite the one who lives near you. — Hesiod

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

If you are a friend, why do you bite me so hard? If an enemy, why do you fawn on me? — Aesop

If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then a friend of my enemy, is my enemy. — Pyreglide

The difference between a friend and an enemy is friendliness. — Frank Delaney

Loneliness.
By all the saints, he was mad. He should be filled with hatred and thoughts of revenge. Vaden was his enemy and that time of friendship has gone. When would he learn to give up those memories and realize Vaden meant what he said?
Tonight. From no on he would regard Vaden as any other enemy. To do anything else would endanger Dundragon and Thea. He must close away this sense of loss and behave with sanity.
The entire world was a barren place. To accept that Vaden was his enemy did not make the loneliness more desolate.
It only seemed to make it weigh heavier, much heavier, — Iris Johansen

You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours. — Benjamin Franklin

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends. — Elbert Hubbard

What they had both thought was safety proved to have been the camouflage of an enemy who works in terms of friendship, trust and pity. — Graham Greene

Enemies Teach. Friends Preach. — Tapan Ghosh

Now, what happens if you eliminate anything from the Bible that offends your sensibility and crosses your will? If you pick and choose what you want to believe and reject the rest, how will you ever have a God who can contradict you? You won't! You'll have ... A God, essentially, of your own making, and not a God with whom you can have a relationship and genuine interaction. Only if your God can say things that outrage you and make you struggle (as in a real friendship or marriage!) will you know that you have gotten hold of a real God and not a figment of your imagination. So an authoritative Bible is not the enemy of a personal relationship with God. It is the precondition for it. — Timothy Keller

The most powerful force that can transform an enemy into a friend is simple kindness. — Debasish Mridha

When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends." — Abraham Lincoln

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. — Gautama Buddha

Sometimes the most hurtful thing is the silence of friends, not the words of enemies — Lisa Vanderpump

You cannot find, make or understand true friendship without having enemies. — Frank Moore Colby

He could not imagine being bored by Susy
or trying to escape from her if he were. He could not think of her as an enemy, or even as an accomplice, since accomplices are potential enemies: she was some one with whom, by some unheard-of miracle, joys above the joys of friendship were to be tasted, but who, even through these fleeting ecstasies, remained simply and securely his friend. — Edith Wharton

Today's enemies can be your friends tomorrow. And today's friends can be tomorrow's enemies. — Suzy Kassem

It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Your worst and most dangerous enemy is the person that injures you under the pretensions of friendship. — Norm MacDonald

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him. — Aesop

Conformity is the enemy of friendship — Richard Peck

Why is it that it is often easier for us to confess our sins to God than to a brother? God is holy and sinless, He is a just judge of evil and the enemy of all disobedience. But a brother is sinful as we are. He knows from his own experience the dark night of secret sin. Why should we not find it easier to go to a brother than to the holy God? But if we do, we must ask ourselves whether we have not often been deceiving ourselves with our confession of sin to God, whether we have not rather been confessing our sins to ourselves and also granting ourselves absolution ... Who can give us the certainty that, in the confession and the forgiveness of our sins, we are not dealing with ourselves but with the living God? God gives us this certainty through our brother. Our brother breaks the circle of self-deception. A man who confesses his sins in the presence of a brother knows that he is no longer alone with himself; he experiences the presence of God in the reality of the other person. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? — Abraham Lincoln

Tyrion let the eunuch help him mount. "Lord Varys," he said from the saddle, "sometimes I feel as though you are the best friend I have in King's Landing and sometimes I feel you are my worst enemy."
"How odd. I think quite the same of you. — George R R Martin

The wounds inflicted by a friend are faithful, but an enemy's kisses are plentiful. — Stacey Culpepper

Friends provoked become the bitterest of enemies. — Baltasar Gracian

A stupid friend can hurt you more than a smart enemy. — Erol Ozan

Everybody has same or the other weakness. This eis also a a general tendency to conceal theee weaknesses. For people may not harm for these, but they will surely ridicule or make fun of. Friendship, of course feigned should be retained with enemy till his weakness is known. Let him remain elated. — Chanakya

Who knows you more ... your friend or your enemy? It's your enemy that pursues with passion while your friend engages at leisure. — Donna Lynn Hope

Believe that when I am at once a man's friend I am always so-nor is it so very hard to bring me to it. And though a man may enjoy himself in being my enemy, he cannot make me HIS for longer than I wish. Good afternoon." Lowell had a way of leaving a conversation with the other person needing more from him. — Matthew Pearl

Real loved one's aren't afraid, and will suggest to
you, what's in your best interest ... because they wouldn't want too see you suffer the consequences of your, sideways, emotional impulse(s). To see you crash and burn is the gratification of [the] 'yes folk' lurking in your corner. You may not agree, but always consider the voice(s) that have consistently kept it real. — T.F. Hodge

He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself. — James Howell

There are few things worse than mistaking an enemy for a friend. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

Keep your friends close and your enemies dead. — Paul Dale

There is within me a friend who consoles me every time that troubles overwhelm me and misfortunes afflict me. The man who does not feel friendship towards himself is a public enemy, and he who finds no confidant within himself will die of despair. For life streams out of man's inner self and in no way from what surrounds him. — Khalil Gibran

Never hate an enemy; love them and transform them into a friend. — Debasish Mridha

Absence is the enemy of love and the friend of friendship. — C.J. Langenhoven

You cannot make friends of your enemies by making enemies of your friends. — Morton Blackwell

All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who never attacked that way-if he ever attacked at all; if he was indeed the enemy. — John Knowles

Peace is something you only have when your enemy is gone. Either after you have turned him into a friend or vanquished him — Bangambiki Habyarimana

If you claim to be a real friend then be real in your soul. If you claim to be fake then be an enemy instead. — Santosh Kalwar

On the positive side, a strong sense of comradely loyalty triggers genuine affection and friendship. On the negative side, it may strengthen contempt for the lives of opponents and, of course, the loss of a comrade may be followed by even greater brutality in battle. — Nel Noddings

The person who has never made an enemy will never make a friend. — Peter Tremayne

The good man has his enemies. He would not be like His Lord if he had not. If we were without enemies we might fear that we were not the friends of God, for friendship of the world is enmity to God. — Charles Spurgeon

Friend: A potential enemy with whom relations have not yet deteriorated to all-out war — Bangambiki Habyarimana

A fool friend always does something that the enemy wishes. — Alireza Salehi Nejad

They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies. — Plato

It's the enemy of your enemy who is your friend Sophie, not the friend of your friend. — Somi Ekhasomhi

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. — Abraham Lincoln

An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect. — Mark Twain

The only way we can change an enemy to a friend is by forgiveness. — Debasish Mridha

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him. — Oscar Wilde

It is easier for an ambitious friend to become an enemy than for an enemy to become a friend. It is even easier to make friends than you can find people to trust as friends. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

[That wall] might be breached sometime in the future, but for now the only real conversation between them was the roots that had already grown low and deep, under the wall, where they could not be broken.
The most terrible thing, though, was the fear that the wall could never be breached, that in his heart Alai was glad of the separation, and was ready to be Ender's enemy. For now that they could not be together, they must be infinitely apart, and what had been sure and unshakable was now fragile and insubstantial; from the moment we are not together, Alai is a stranger, for he has a life now that will be no part of mine, and that means that when I see him we will not know each other. — Orson Scott Card

You can get what you want. Never sell out. Don't break. Don't weaken. Don't let the kindness of strangers be your salvation, for it is no salvation at all. Unless you sleep alone, you sleep with the enemy. Never come out of the storm. On the other hand, maybe you should. You don't have what it takes to go the hard way. Come out of the cold and sit by the fire. Let them warm you with the smiles and promise of friendship's fortune. Lose your edge. A soft body and chained mind suit you. Chances are you don't have what it takes to walk the frozen trail. Stay home and relax. — Henry Rollins

Enemy: A friend whose mask has fallen — Bangambiki Habyarimana

A common enemy is not necessarily a reliable basis for friendship. — Brandon Mull

Your friendship is quite valuable to me because I know you are not on my side.
Rather you are a free, evolving spirit, allied with other like minds.
Enemy to arrogance and loyal to the bitter truth. — Anonymous

Syria has a strategic position in the region, I don't deny her role, her alliance with the resistance or our friendship with her although that many Lebanese pretended to have forgotten that there is an enemy called Israel which is still targeting us and constituting a danger to the Lebanese people. — Hassan Nasrallah

Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend. — Rumi

I would sooner lose my best friend than my worst enemy. To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him. — Oscar Wilde

A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm in a squad where I'd rather shoot the C.O than the enemy.- Cooper Hawkes

Knock it off. -T,C. McQueen

You know what I'm saying, Sir. I mean I never felt like shooting you. -Cooper Hawkes

Stop it, Hawkes. You're making me all misty.-- T.C. McQueen — James Morrison

A traitor is a betrayer - one who practices injury, while professing friendship. Benedict Arnold was a traitor, solely because, while professing friendship for the American cause, he attempted to injure it. An open enemy, however criminal in other respects, is no traitor. — Lysander Spooner

Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship. — Norman Maclean

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy. — Arthur Ashe

Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes. It is an entirely "neighbor-regarding concern for others," which discovers the neighbor in every man it meets. Therefore, agape makes no distinction between friend and enemy; it is directed toward both. If one loves an individual merely on account of his friendliness, he loves him for the sake of the benefits to be gained from the friendship, rather than for the friend's own sake. Consequently, the best way to assure oneself that love is disinterested is to have love for the enemy-neighbor from whom you can expect no good in return, but only hostility and persecution. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Watching other people making friends, everywhere, as a dog makes friends. I mark the manner of these canine courtesies and think, here comes, thank Heaven, another enemy! — Edmond Rostand

When building a friendship bridge don't forget to construct a distruative path. — Peter Adejimi