Enemy Quotes

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
Warren Buffett

Time, Friend, Wonderful

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.
Pablo Picasso

Good, Creativity, Sense

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
Margaret Thatcher

Time, Friend, May

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
Bertrand Russell

Religion, Christian, Moral

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
Francis Bacon

Revenge, Taking, Superior

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
Ulysses S. Grant

War, Art, Moving

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.
Thomas Paine

Battle, Same, Few

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
Aldous Huxley

Life, Freedom, Second

For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards.
Sun Tzu

Advantage, Perceive, Rewards

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Isaac Newton

Art, Making, Point

When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.
Sun Tzu

Wishes, Sign, Mouths

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
George Orwell

Great, Long, Real

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Within, Folly, Luxury

If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.
Sun Tzu

Men, Victory, Gone

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
William James

Greatest, May, Rest

No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.
Francis of Assisi

Except, Harm, Yourselves

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Death, Fear, Him

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
James A. Baldwin

Power, Ignorance, Justice

The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.
Carroll O'Connor

Artist, Unlike, Detested

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.
Joyce Meyer

Experience, Live, Die

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
Henry A. Kissinger

Battle, Win, Sexes

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
Samuel Johnson

Happiness, Great, Human

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
William Blake

Friend, Person, Trying

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
Orson Welles

Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!
Robert Mugabe

Fear, Heart, Real

If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
Thomas Carlyle

Fight, Victory, Crown

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Sam Levenson

Reason, Common, Along

Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dangerous uncomfortable enemy, because his body, which you can always conquer, gives you little purchase upon his soul.
Gilbert Murray

Nothing, Soul, Body

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
Edmund Burke

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
William Butler Yeats

Time, Beautiful, Innocent

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