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Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his read more
Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.
Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.
Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited read more
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.
You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.
Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are read more
Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles.
All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.
All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.
The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.
The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.
I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend. Abraham Lincoln There is no little enemy. •Benjamin Franklin read more
I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend. Abraham Lincoln There is no little enemy. •Benjamin Franklin The friend of my enemy is my enemy. •Anonymous With friends like this, who needs enemies? •Henny Youngman It is impossible for one person to know another so well that he can dispense with belief. •Friedrich Durrenmatt The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes. •Aesop The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. •Sam Levenson It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. •William Blake He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him. •Eddie Cantor You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. •Eric Hoffer 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 It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. •Sally Kempton We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection. •Ricther Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work. •Anonymous Enemies promises were made to be broken. •Aesop The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts. •William Ellery Channing You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends. •Joseph Conrad Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards. •R A Dickson I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people. •Benjamin Franklin A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends. •Baltasar Gracian I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends. They're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights! •Warren Gamaliel Harding Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him. •Ernest Jones Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. •John F. Kennedy Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. •Stephen King Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves. •Francois De La Rochefoucauld There is no stronger bond of friendship than a mutual enemy. •Frankfort Moore He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life. •Friedrich Nietzsche Bear patiently with a rival. •Ovid Talk well of your friends and of your enemies say nothing. •Proverb Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies? Nay, who but infants question in such wise, 'twas one of my most intimate enemies. •Dante Gabriel Rossetti Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy. •N. F. Simpson Convince an enemy, convince him that he's wrong. To win a bloodless battle, the victory is long. A simple act of faith, reason over might. To blow up his children would only prove him right. •Gordon Sumner One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good. •Jonathan Swift In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, read more
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.