Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb
9,589

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

Friedrich Nietzsche
8,734
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. -Oscar Wilde
8,535

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde
8,494

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte
7,529
The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction. -Aesop
2,434

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

Colin Powell
1,319

I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.

Oscar Levant
1,089
Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy. -Publilius Syrus
1,038

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

Sally Kempton
341

We make more enemies by what we say than friends by what we do.

John C. Collins
322
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? -Abraham Lincoln
288

The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.

Walter Winchell
274

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

Voltaire
261
Whoever has his foe at his mercy, and does not kill him, is his own enemy. -Muslih-uddin Sadi
247

There is no such thing as an insignificant enemy.

French Proverb
232

He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.

Eddie Cantor
229
Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy. -Spike Milligan
224

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' This method works every time.

Henry C. Link
224

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

Sun Tzu
216
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. -Eric Hoffer
216

Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

Thomas Browne, Sr.
211

I would not kill my enemies, but I will make them get down on their knees. I will, I can, I must.

Maria Callas
208
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment. -Andre Maurois
208

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

Frank Herbert
207

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Baltasar Gracian
205
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. -African Proverb
197

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.

Antisthenes
191

We have met the enemy and he is us.

Walt Kelly
188
A flatterer is a secret enemy. -Hungarian Proverb
187