<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Enemy - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Let my enemies devour each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let my enemies devour each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64652]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64464]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64110]]></link><description><![CDATA[When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63629]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63627]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63416]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have met the enemy and he is us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13866]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have met the enemy and he is us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have no enemies, you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13867]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have no enemies, you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled down into the quicksand of smugness and self-satisfaction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13870]]></link><description><![CDATA[You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: viz., avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. If those enemies were to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: viz., avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13872]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is his own worst enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is his own worst enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's greatness can be measured by his enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13874]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's greatness can be measured by his enemies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To mortify and even to injure an opponent, reproach him with the very defect or vice ... you feel ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13876]]></link><description><![CDATA[To mortify and even to injure an opponent, reproach him with the very defect or vice ... you feel ... in yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish my deadly foe no worse, Than want of friends, and empty purse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13877]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish my deadly foe no worse, Than want of friends, and empty purse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no little enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13878]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no little enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woe to those who spit on the beat generation, the wind will blow it back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woe to those who spit on the beat generation, the wind will blow it back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend. Abraham Lincoln  There is no little enemy. •Benjamin Franklin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13861]]></link><description><![CDATA[I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend. Abraham Lincoln  There is no little enemy. •Benjamin Franklin  The friend of my enemy is my enemy. •Anonymous   With friends like this, who needs enemies? •Henny Youngman   It is impossible for one person to know another so well that he can dispense with belief. •Friedrich Durrenmatt   The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes. •Aesop   The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. •Sam Levenson  It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. •William Blake  He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him. •Eddie Cantor  You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. •Eric Hoffer  I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business. •Bette Davis  It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. •Sally Kempton  We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection. •Ricther  Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work. •Anonymous  Enemies promises were made to be broken. •Aesop   The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts. •William Ellery Channing   You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends. •Joseph Conrad   Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards. •R A Dickson   I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people. •Benjamin Franklin   A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends. •Baltasar Gracian   I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends. They're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights! •Warren Gamaliel Harding   Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him. •Ernest Jones   Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. •John F. Kennedy   Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. •Stephen King   Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves. •Francois De La Rochefoucauld   There is no stronger bond of friendship than a mutual enemy. •Frankfort Moore   He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life. •Friedrich Nietzsche   Bear patiently with a rival. •Ovid   Talk well of your friends and of your enemies say nothing. •Proverb   Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies? Nay, who but infants question in such wise, 'twas one of my most intimate enemies. •Dante Gabriel Rossetti   Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy. •N. F. Simpson   Convince an enemy, convince him that he's wrong. To win a bloodless battle, the victory is long. A simple act of faith, reason over might. To blow up his children would only prove him right. •Gordon Sumner   One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good. •Jonathan Swift   In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13862]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13863]]></link><description><![CDATA[One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13864]]></link><description><![CDATA[An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13865</guid></item></channel></rss>