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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
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
- Arabic Proverb and Chinese Proverb
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy 
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We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
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]
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache;
do be my enemy - for friendship's sake.
- William Blake
You can discover what your enemy fears most
by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- Michael Moncur
Hatred burns the one who hates.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Self-pity is our worst enemy
and if we yield to it,
we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller
When you pray for anyone, you tend to
modify your personal attitude toward them.
- Norman Vincent Peale
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
The supreme art of war is
to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- Sun Tzu
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
Religion can be the enemy of God.
- Bono
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
- Thomas Jefferson
Anger is the enemy of non-violence
and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
In the practice of tolerance,
one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear,
and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.
- Lester B. Pearson
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
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
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
(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
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
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
A man is usually more careful of his money
than he is of his principles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A lifelong friend is someone
you haven't borrowed money from yet.
- Anonymous
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money
they don't have for something they don't need.
- Will Rogers
We have the best government that money can buy.
- Mark Twain
I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful,
natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
- Steve Martin
Where large sums of money are concerned,
it is advisable to trust nobody.
- Agatha Christie
Money is better than poverty,
if only for financial reasons.
- Woody Allen
My life is difficult. I need more money.
- the movie The Expendables (2010)
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
A fool and his money are soon elected.
- Will Rogers
A bank is a place that will lend you money
if you can prove that you don't need it.
- Bob Hope
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
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)
Money often costs too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
- Abraham Lincoln
New York City is a great monument
to the power of money and greed...
a race for rent.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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
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
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige
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
Living in fear of anything is a terrible waste
of what could be a great life.
If you live in fear of losing your job,
either you fear the embarrassment of being jobless,
or you fear the loss of material goods -
house, car, and such.
If you live in fear of losing your stuff and money,
it is clear that they own you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not hire a man who does your work for money,
but him who does it for love of it.
- Henry David Thoreau
The glow of one warm thought
is to me worth more than money.
- Thomas Jefferson
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
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
To have done anything just for money
is to have been truly idle.
- Henry David Thoreau
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
Money won't create success,
the freedom to make it will.
- Nelson Mandela
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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