When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
Joseph Addison

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.
Charles Caleb Colton

Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.
Joseph Conrad

Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals.
Jimmy Carter

Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
Sydney J. Harris

The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.
Peter Ustinov

Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never.
Mason Cooley

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.
William Hazlitt

Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.
Henry R. Luce

Always keep your friends close, but your enemies keep closer.
J. Wallace Day

The wise learn many things from their enemies.
Aristophanes

We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
Zbigniew Brzezinski

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
Moshe Dayan

With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion.
Harrison Ford

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
Homer

From the point of the view of the nation's power, it was obvious that while we were fighting the Sino-Japanese war, every effort was to be made to avoid adding to our enemies and opening additional fronts.
Hideki Tojo

Keep your enemies in front of you.
Chris Matthews

Reason and love are sworn enemies.
Pierre Corneille

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
Aristophanes

The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies.
Bob Woodward