One enemy is too much. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Anger is a sworn enemy. [ Proverb ]

There is no little enemy. [ Franklin ]

Security,
Is mortals' chiefest enemy. [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]

Better is an enemy to well. [ Italian Proverb ]

Defiance provokes an enemy. [ Proverb ]

An enemy is a perpetual spy. [ Proverb ]

Let me die facing the enemy. [ Bayard ]

My nearest and dearest enemy. [ Thomas Middleton ]

A man of cruelty is God's enemy. [ Proverb ]

In an enemy, spots are soon seen. [ Proverb ]

Celerity is the lazy man's enemy. [ R. Lowe ]

He who flatters you is your enemy. [ Cardan ]

I am sure care's an enemy to life. [ William Shakespeare ]

Better my enemy envy me, than I him. [ Proverb ]

Pride is the sworn enemy to content. [ Proverb ]

Praise from an enemy smells of craft. [ Milton ]

A reconciled friend is a double enemy. [ Proverb ]

It is lawful to be taught by an enemy. [ Ovid ]

Praises from an enemy imply real merit. [ Proverb ]

An enemy may chance to give good counsel. [ Proverb ]

Hunger and cold betray a man to his enemy. [ Proverb ]

He that slights his enemy dies by his hand. [ Proverb ]

Liberty has no crueller enemy than license. [ French Proverb ]

He that conquers himself conquers an enemy. [ Gaelic Proverb ]

No enemy is so terrible as a man of genius. [ Disraeli ]

'Tis but thy name that is my enemy, -
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What's Montague? it is not hand, nor foot.
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? that which we call a rose.
By any other name would smell as sweet. [ William Shakespeare ]

Think that you may make a friend of an enemy. [ Seneca ]

Scorn no man's love, though of a mean degree;
Love is a present for a mighty king,--
Much less make any one thine enemy.
As guns destroy, so may a little sling. [ George Herbert ]

The body of a dead enemy always smells sweet. [ Vespasian ]

The war is not done so long as my enemy lives. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend. [ Mme. Deluzy ]

Make a silver bridge for your enemy to fly over. [ Proverb ]

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [ Bible ]

He that passeth a winter's day escapes an enemy. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that cockers his child provides for his enemy. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A detractor is his own foe and the world's enemy. [ Proverb ]

A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend. [ Madame Swetchine ]

A small debt makes a debtor; a heavy one, an enemy. [ Publius Syrus ]

A physician may not turn his back even on an enemy. [ Gutzkow ]

One enemy is too many, and a hundred friends too few. [ Proverb ]

He who subdues his anger conquers his greatest enemy. [ Proverb ]

Wine is a turncoat: first a friend, and then an enemy. [ Fielding ]

No friend to a bosom friend; no enemy to a bosom enemy. [ Proverb ]

A little debt makes a debtor, but a great one an enemy. [ Proverb ]

An enemy despised is the most dangerous of all enemies. [ Publius Syrus ]

Live with your friend as if he might become your enemy. [ Proverb ]

Twine round thee threads of steel, like thread on thread,
That grow to fetters, or bind down thy arms
With chains concealed in chaplets. Oh, not yet
Mayst thou embrace thy corselet, nor lay by
Thy sword; not yet, O Freedom, close thy lids
In slumber; for thine enemy never sleeps.
And thou must watch and combat till the day
Of the new earth and heaven. [ Bryant ]

That is a most wretched fortune which is without an enemy. [ Publius Syrus ]

Though your enemy seem a mouse, yet watch him like a lion. [ Proverb ]

Suspicion is no less an enemy to virtue than to happiness. [ Johnson ]

A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy. [ Sir W. Temple ]

A joke never gains over an enemy, but often loses a friend. [ Proverb ]

He that dallies with his enemy gives him leave to kill him. [ Proverb ]

A general should make weakness appear strength to his enemy. [ Fabius ]

I am equally an enemy to a female dunce and a female pedant. [ Goldsmith ]

He is not a virtuous man that loves it not even in an enemy. [ Proverb ]

Best dealing with an enemy, when you take him at his weakest. [ Proverb ]

Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend. [ Swift ]

Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than the small-pox. [ St. Evremond ]

He that shews a passion, tells his enemy where he may hit him. [ Proverb ]

It is good to strike the serpent's head with your enemy's hand. [ Proverb ]

Suspicion is as great an enemy to wisdom as too much credulity. [ Thomas Fuller ]

A slight debt makes a man your debtor; a heavier one, your enemy. [ Laber ]

It is the enemy whom we do not suspect who is the most dangerous. [ Rojas ]

Solitude, the sly enemy that doth separate a man from well-doing. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

He who cannot counterfeit a friend can never be a very bad enemy. [ Proverb ]

Take heed of wind that comes in at a hole, and a reconciled enemy. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

It is much safer to reconcile an enemy to you than to conquer him. [ Proverb ]

A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have. [ Carlyle ]

Every man will shoot at the enemy, but few will gather the shafts. [ Proverb ]

A friend exaggerates a man's virtues, an enemy inflames his crimes. [ Addison ]

If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him. [ Proverb ]

Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over-influence. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends. [ Bishop Hall ]

One enemy may do us more harm than a hundred friends can do us good. [ Proverb ]

He who refuses what is just, gives up everything to an enemy in arms. [ Luc ]

God strikes not as an enemy, to destroy; but as a father, to correct. [ Aughey ]

Trust no friend with that you need; fear him as if he were your enemy. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He gets a double victory who overcomes himself, when he does his enemy. [ Proverb ]

O, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! [ William Shakespeare ]

He who has neither friend, nor enemy, is without talents, powers, or energy. [ Lavater ]

He that would thrive by law, must fee his enemy's counsel as well as his own. [ Proverb ]

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. [ Schiller ]

Nothing more dangerous than an imprudent friend; a prudent enemy would be better.

To excite a fierce dog to capture a lame rabbit is to attack a contemptible enemy. [ Chinese Proverb ]

Did a person but know the value of an enemy, he would purchase him with pure gold. [ Abbe de Raunci ]

In olden times an enemy was sometimes poisoned by a bouquet, - deceit sugar-coated. [ Latimer ]

A panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination. [ Bovee ]

Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead: excessive grief the enemy to the living. [ William Shakespeare ]

Though you are bound to love your enemy, you are not bound to put your sword in his hand. [ Proverb ]

Be on such terms with your friend as if you knew that he might one day become your enemy. [ Laberius ]

In taking revenge a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over he is superior. [ Proverb ]

In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy, but in passing it over he is his superior. [ Bacon ]

Inflict not on an enemy every injury in your power, for he may afterwards become your friend. [ Saadi ]

It is better to break off a thousand friendships, than to endure the sight of a single enemy. [ Saadi ]

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable. [ La Fontaine ]

He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life. [ Lavater ]

The greatest misfortune one can wish his enemy is that he may love without being loved in return. [ Labouisse ]

It would be a rarity worth seeing could any one show us such a thing as a perfectly reconciled enemy. [ South ]

I have adopted the Roman sentiment, that it is more honorable to save a citizen than to kill an enemy. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad. [ W. R. Alger ]

Do good to your friend, that he may be more wholly yours; to your enemy, that he may become your friend. [ Cleobulus ]

When a man but half forgives his enemy, it is like leaving a bag of rusty nails to interpose between them. [ Latimer ]

The greatest friend of Truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility. [ Caleb C. Colton ]

Surely the best way is to meet the enemy in the field, and not wait till he plunders us in our very bed-chamber. [ Goldsmith ]

For cowards the road of desertion should be left open. They will carry over to the enemy nothing but their fears. [ Bovee ]

If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. [ Bible ]

An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude. [ Colton ]

A rich dress adds but little to the beauty of a person. It may possibly create a deference, but that is rather an enemy to love. [ Shenstone ]

I am persuaded that he who is capable of being a bitter enemy can never possess the necessary virtues that constitute a true friend. [ Fitzosborne ]

The world is large when its weary leagues two loving hearts divide; But the world is small when your enemy is loose on the other side. [ John Boyle O'Reilly ]

Ridicule has ever been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success. [ Goldsmith ]

Differences, we know, are never so effectually laid asleep as by some common calamity; an enemy unites all to whom he threatens danger. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Hannah More said to Horace Walpole: If I wanted to punish an enemy, it should be by fastening on him the trouble of constantly hating somebody. [ John Bate ]

We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself. [ Colton ]

It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend. [ Bias ]

The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their common enemy, nature. [ Jeffrey ]

In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression. [ Bacon ]

It is through madness that we hate an enemy, and think of revenging ourselves; and it is through indolence that we are appeased, and do not revenge ourselves. [ Bruyere ]

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. We are bought by the enemy with the treasure in our own coffers. [ Burke ]

The enemy of art is the enemy of nature; art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertions of human nature; and what nature will he honor who honors not the human? [ Lavater ]

Who can look down upon the grave of an enemy, and not feel a compunctious throb that he should have warred with the poor handful of dust that lies mouldering before him? [ Washington Irving ]

Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is, to watch the success of our enemy, to be sure of it. [ Colton ]

If thou expect death as a friend, prepare to entertain it; if thou expect death as an enemy, prepare to overcome it; death has no advantage, but when it comes a stranger. [ Quarles ]

Guns, swords, batteries, armies and ships of war are set in motion by man for the subjugation of an enemy. Women bring conquerors to their feet with the magic of their eyes. [ Dr. J. V. C. Smith ]

Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God, to which Satan is a bitter enemy; for it removes from the heart the weight of sorrow, and the fascination of evil thoughts. [ Luther ]

Even though he was an enemy of mine, I had to admit that what he had accomplished was a brilliant piece of strategy. First, he punched me, then he kicked me, then he punched me again. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Avoid that which an enemy tells you to do; for if you follow his advice, you will smite your knees with the hand of sorrow. If he shows you a road straight as an arrow, turn from it and go the other way. [ Saadi ]

It is better to decide a difference between our enemies than our friends; for one of our friends will most likely become our enemy; but on the other hand, one of our enemies will probably become our friend. [ Bias ]

The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself. [ Colton ]

Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit: but a just contempt of an enemy can alone arise in those who feel that they are superior to their opponent by the prudence of their measures. [ Thucydides ]

A little neglect may breed great mischief. For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

If you lend a person any money, it becomes lost for any purpose as one's own. When you ask for it back again, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press still further either you must part with that which you have intrusted, or else you must lose that friend. [ Plautus ]

The beauty of work depends upon the way we meet it, whether we arm ourselves each morning to attack it as an enemy that must be vanquished before night comes, or whether we open our eyes with the sunrise to welcome it as an approaching friend who will keep us delightful company all day, and who will make us feel at evening that the day was well worth its fatigues. [ Lucy Larcom ]

Health is certainly more valuable than money; because it is by health that money is procured; but thousands and millions are of small avail to alleviate the protracted tortures of the gout, to repair the broken organs of sense, or resuscitate the powers of digestion. Poverty is, indeed, an evil from which we naturally fly, but let us not run from one enemy to another, nor take shelter in the arms of sickness. [ Johnson ]

There are many persons of combative tendencies, who read for ammunition, and dig out of the Bible iron for balls. They read, and they find nitre and charcoal and sulphur for powder. They read, and they find cannon. They read, and they make portholes and embrasures. And if a man does not believe as they do, they look upon him as an enemy, and let fly the Bible at him to demolish him. So men turn the word of God into a vast arsenal, filled with all manner of weapons, offensive and defensive. [ H. W. Beecher ]