Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Oscar Wilde

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

Colin Powell

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

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

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

Sally Kempton

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

John C. Collins

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

Abraham Lincoln

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

Walter Winchell

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

Voltaire

Whoever has his foe at his mercy, and does not kill him, is his own enemy.

Muslih uddin Sadi

There is no such thing as an insignificant enemy.

French Proverb

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

Eddie Cantor

Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy.

Spike Milligan

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

Henry C. Link

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

Sun Tzu

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

Eric Hoffer

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

Thomas Browne, Sr.

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

Maria Callas

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

Andre Maurois

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

Frank Herbert

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

Baltasar Gracian

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

African Proverb

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

Antisthenes

We have met the enemy and he is us.

Walt Kelly

A flatterer is a secret enemy.

Hungarian Proverb

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.

Bette Davis

Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.

Saadi

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

Mark Twain

When the enemy advances, withdraw; when he stops, harass; when he tires, strike; when he retreats, pursue.

Mao Tse tung

Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either.

Jewish Proverb

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

William Blake

He who has not forgiven an enemy has not yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

A man's worst enemies can't wish on him what he can think up himself.

Yiddish proverb

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.

Aristotle

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.

Aristotle

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Oscar Wilde

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Oscar Wilde

Here's to the confusion of our enemies!

Frank Sinatra

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

Woodrow Wilson

For every ten jokes, thou hast got a hundred enemies.

Laurence Sterne

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.

J. K. Rowling

You never really know your friends from your enemies until the ice breaks.

Eskimo Proverb

Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.

Spanish Proverb

He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

Chinese Proverb

Enemies are so stimulating.

Katharine Hepburn

Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or justice to our enemies, justice will be done.

George W. Bush

Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.

Voltaire

May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.

Voltaire

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.

Sun Tzu

This is no time to make new enemies.

Voltaire

Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.

Henry R. Luce

Judge a man by the reputation of his enemies.

Arabian Proverb

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

Walt Whitman

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?

Marilyn Manson

The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.

Harold Nicolson

They were not criminals, they were not enemies. They were a mistake.

Sabin Willett

Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.

Bob Riley

It is not necessary to have enemies if you go out of your way to make friends hate you.

Frank Dane

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.

Thomas Jones

The illegal brokering of arms and weapons to our enemies is a serious and deadly business.

Christopher Wray

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

Joseph Stalin

O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies.

Saadi

We cannot be saved until we have risen above all our enemies, not the least of which is ignorance.

Dr. Joseph Smith

Our views differ, but we are not enemies.

Alexander Milinkevich

The soldiers were going in convoys when the enemies of Afghanistan set off bombs planted on the roads.

Assadullah Wafa

Women have tended to be their own worst enemies.

Christopher Hayes

Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?

Joseph Stalin

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

Robert Francis Kennedy

The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch.

Michael Friedman

I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

Ann Richards

They?re not here because they were his enemies, but because they were his friends.

Michael Tillman

Pick your enemies carefully or you'll never make it in Los Angeles.

Rona Barrett

To be deceived by our enemies or betrayed by our friends in insupportable; yet by ourselves we are often content to be so treated.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In the war on terrorism, our enemies operate globally.

Jeffrey Nadaner

I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember.

Gerald R. Ford

It is not enough for me to win. My enemies must lose.

David Merrick

The tocsin you hear today is not an alarm but an alert: it sounds the charge against our enemies.

Georges Jacques Danton

I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves.

Roy M. Cohn

Our pre-9/11 gun laws allow our enemies in the War on Terror to arm themselves right here in our own country.

Carolyn Mccarthy

His enemies shall lick the dust.

Bible

One should not lift the rod against our enemies upon the private information of another.

Hitopadesa

The last of our enemies is laid low.

Clement Attlee

Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

W. L. George

We're friendly enemies, I guess you could say.

Bob Zeh

The American crusader forces, enemies of God, carried out an odious crime against the Muslims of Al-Qaim.

Al qaeda

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Paul Valery

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

Moshe Dayan

May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.

General George S. Patton

We strongly condemn any disrespect to human bodies regardless of whether they are those of enemies or friends.

Karim Rahimi

The enemies of Freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.

William Ralph Inge

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

It could be any one of different enemies of Afghanistan, of peace, of reconstruction in this country.

Omar Samad

This is an escalation that we have been expecting, ... The government of Iraq is determined to confront the enemies.

Iyad Allawi

It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.

Lana Turner

I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.

Salman Rushdie

He was very overbearing and demanding. He was making some enemies. I know that.

Joan Hull

Keep your friends close, your enemies closer and your wallets even closer.

Joette Rockow

\[Bryan Harvey\] didn't make enemies. People might have got mad at him, but he didn't make enemies.

Johnny Hott

It's an easy way to make enemies, talking about it.

Pete Eliades

We expect that the enemies will increase their attacks, particularly as we run up to the referendum.

Joseph Taluto

Journalism could be described as turning one's enemies into money.

Craig Brown

They made peace between us; we embraced, and we have been mortal enemies ever since.

Alain Rene Lesage

When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.

Maria Callas

One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged.

Heinrich Heine

To conquer [our enemies] we must dare, and dare again, and dare for ever; and thus will France be saved.

Georges Jacques Danton

Don't go out in the world and get chased by monsters and madmen. Don't make enemies.

Tad Williams

We have provided for the survival of man against all enemies except his fellow man.

Lyman Lloyd Bryson

Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

Antisthenes

They're learning they have many enemies over there.

Youssef Ibrahim

The enemies of Iraq [who] are carrying out aggressive acts to get Iraq back to the old days.

Ali Allawi

Coming into a new area, this organism doesn't have any real enemies; the defenses of the local population are not up.

Linda Farmer

My Enemies are the ones I fear.

Joshua Thompson

I'm sure it would be fun annihilating all my enemies too. I'm not really drawn to that, but as a character I can see it being a lot of fun.

Adrien Brody

Greetings and death to our enemies.

Dan Aykroyd

There is another Motley Crue band out of Connecticut. We're arch enemies.

Brian Miller

Old enemies of many years can move forward.

Adrien Wing

False friends are worst than bitter enemies.

Scottish Proverb

We have to continue to prove that Jews and Muslims are not enemies.

Yona Metzger

How many enemies can you make in that much time?

Charlotte Observer

I personally am waiting to celebrate. I have my fingers crossed. Sharon was one of our biggest enemies.

Abu Abir

I have no friends and no enemies -- only competitors.

Aristotle Onassis

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Elizabeth Bowen

Enemies of peace and stability are behind such brutal and cowardly attacks, which will not deter our health activities in the area.

Abdullah Fahim

I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.

Elsa Maxwell

It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.

Edward G. Bulwer lytton