He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy. — A. J. P. Taylor
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals. — David Ogilvy
Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry. — Samuel Richardson
Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost. — Samuel Butler
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. — Sam Levenson
A real ‘karma-yogi’, who first acquires knowledge and then works for the welfare of people — Sam Veda
For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy. — Natan Sharansky
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. — Napoleon Bonaparte
It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy. — Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
You do not become a “dissident” just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. — Vaclav Havel
An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity. — Saadi
Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions. — Joseph Conrad
Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. — Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
One had to learn to live with it, to belong to it, to fit into its seasons and its ways. — Louis Dearborn L'Amour