Enemy Quotes

What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.

Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.

I have long been profoundly convinced that in the very nature of things, employers and employees are partners, not enemies; that their interests are common not opposed; that in the long run the success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.

Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal.

Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.

I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.

A friend, even if he be the enemy’s son , should be protected.

It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one’s enemies with courage.

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