
An "enemy" is a mirage -
an image of self reflected on the sands of Hell.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Money can't buy friends
but it can get you a better class of enemy.
- Spike Milligan
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy 
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
- Arabic Proverb and Chinese Proverb
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
Self-pity is our worst enemy
and if we yield to it,
we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
You can discover what your enemy fears most
by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- Michael Moncur
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache;
do be my enemy - for friendship's sake.
- William Blake
When you pray for anyone, you tend to
modify your personal attitude toward them.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Hatred burns the one who hates.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear,
and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.
- Lester B. Pearson
The supreme art of war is
to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- Sun Tzu
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have heard that it was said,
"Love your neighbor and hate your enemy."
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
Perfection is the obstacle of creation
and the enemy of achievement.
- Neale Donald Walsch
The great defense against the air menace
is to attack the enemy's aircraft
as near as possible to their point of departure.
- Winston Churchill
We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems,
for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy
Anger is the enemy of non-violence
and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
In the practice of tolerance,
one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Improve what you can
and accept all the rest of life
just as it comes.
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
Lord, grant comfort, joy and health
to those I call friend,
to those I call enemy,
and to those I have cursed by my indifference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one is to be called an enemy,
all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm.
You have no enemy except yourselves.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
- Thomas Jefferson
Religion can be the enemy of God.
- Bono
Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends.
But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy
is the quintessence of true religion.
The other is mere business.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
(Jesus on Love)
You have heard that it was said,
"Love your neighbor and hate your enemy."
But I tell you: Love your enemies
and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44
A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father;
to his wife, but as a husband;
to his enemy, but upon terms:
whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires,
and not as it sorteth with the person.
- Francis Bacon
We are all "neighbors."
Our world has gotten too small for us to be anything else.
We can no longer have "us" and "them" - friends and enemies.
A person from Iraq, or Russia, or Columbia is
no more a stranger or enemy than a person from across town.
A few people everywhere are troublemakers.
Every religion provokes a few people to become extremists.
Do we need police around the globe? Unfortunately, we always will.
Do we need war? Does that question even deserve an answer?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love Your Enemies
Ye have heard that it hath been said,
Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy.
But I say unto you, Love your enemies,
bless them that curse you,
do good to them that hate you,
and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.
- Jesus of Nazareth (Matthew 5:43-44)
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
- Mark Twain
He who marries for love without money
has good nights and sorry days.
- Anonymous
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet
and steady and loyal and enduring a nature
that it will last through a whole lifetime,
if not asked to lend money.
- Mark Twain
Money is better than poverty,
if only for financial reasons.
- Woody Allen
A lifelong friend is someone
you haven't borrowed money from yet.
- Anonymous
A fool and his money are soon elected.
- Will Rogers
My life is difficult. I need more money.
- the movie The Expendables (2010)
Money often costs too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
- Abraham Lincoln
A man is usually more careful of his money
than he is of his principles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
New York City is a great monument
to the power of money and greed...
a race for rent.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
After fifteen minutes I wanted to marry her,
and after half an hour
I completely gave up the idea of stealing her purse.
- the movie Take the Money and Run (1969)
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money
they don't have for something they don't need.
- Will Rogers
A bank is a place that will lend you money
if you can prove that you don't need it.
- Bob Hope
I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful,
natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
- Steve Martin
We have the best government that money can buy.
- Mark Twain
Where large sums of money are concerned,
it is advisable to trust nobody.
- Agatha Christie
Money won't make you happy...
but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
- Zig Ziglar
Too many people spend money they haven't earned,
to buy things they don't want,
to impress people they don't like.
- Will Rogers
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
- Mark Twain
The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.
Often, the price of freedom for an individual
is challenging the closed minds of family and friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I know that God made the whole world in 4004 BC.
I know because my preacher told me. He's a good man.
He's even saving up all the money we give him
to go to bible college someday.
- Anonymous Humor
Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man
... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do
every minute of every day. And the invisible man
has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do.
And if you do any of these things,
he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire
and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever,
and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream,
until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you.
He loves you and he needs money.
- George Carlin
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige
Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
- Thomas Jefferson
If money is your hope for independence,
you will never have it.
The only real security that
a man can have in this world
is a reserve of knowledge,
experience and ability.
- Henry Ford
Maturity is the ability to do a job
whether or not you are supervised,
to carry money without spending it,
and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.
- Ann Landers
A nation that continues year after year
to spend more money on military defense
than on programs of social uplift
is approaching spiritual doom.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you
to reach the heights of your capabilities
or make the money that you want
without becoming very good at it.
- Brian Tracy
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
Priorities - what's really important -
health, and doing what one wants to do -
it's certainly not money.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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