"The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction." - Aesop, Fables

"The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own lumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction." - Aesop, Fables

"A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him." - Aesop, Fables

"Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults." - Antisthenes

"Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes." - Antisthenes, quoted by Diogenes Laertius in Lives of the Philosophers

"Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many." - Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

"He is his own worst enemy." - Cicero, of Julius Caesar, in Epistolae Ad Atticum

"There is no little enemy." - Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac

"He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies" - William Hazlitt, Characteristics

"We should forgive our enemies, but only after they have been hanged first." - Heinrich Heine

"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you." - Eric Hoffer

"Even a paranoid can have enemies." - Henry A. Kissinger, quoted in Time

"If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"He makes no friend who never made a foe." - Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Idylls of the King

"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it." - Voltaire, letter (1767)

"We have met the enemy and he is us." - Waltkelly, comic strip Pogo

"Call no man foe, but never love a stranger." - STELLA BENSON, To the Unborn

"If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee." - BIBLE, Proverbs 25:21

"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." - BIBLE, Matthew 5:44

"Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner." - THOMAS BROWNE, Religio Medici

"You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends." - JOSEPH CONRAD, Lord Jim

"It is an unhappy lot which finds no enemies." - Publilius Syrus, Maxims

"We have met the enemy and they are ours." - OLIVER HAZARD PERRY, military communique (1813)

"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one:
O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.
And God granted it."
- VOLTAIRE, letter (1767)

"A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies." - OSCAR WILDE, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway." - Hubbard, Elbert (1856-1915)

"This is no time to make new enemies." - Voltaire (1694-1778) when asked on his deathbed to forswear Satan

"Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much." - Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)