A Quote by C.J. Langenhoven

A man with no enemies is no good as a friend.

C.J. Langenhoven

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C.J. Langenhoven
August 13, 1873 - July 15, 1932

Whosoever formeth an intimacy with the enemies of his friends, does so to injure the latter. O wise man! wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies.

Saadi

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Oscar Wilde

It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.

Gary Busey

Once you best a man, never gloat. Be generous and find something in his actions to praise. He won't enjoy being bested but he'll make a good face about it. Show him you appreciate it. Praise can win you a friend. Gloating will only ever make enemies.

John Flanagan

No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.

Clarence Darrow

I'm down for you, so ride with me. My enemies your enemies, Cause you ain't ever had a friend like me.

Tupac Shakur

O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies.

Saadi

Bed is a good friend; book is a good friend; night is a good friend. Try to bring them all together.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

A man who has made no enemies is probably not a very good man.

Antonin Scalia

So, being a good man is not an exam or a qualification, it changes, and it incorporates being a good friend, a good father, a good employee, a good boss, a good neighbour and a good citizen.

A. A. Gill

Hillary, you're a strong woman, you're an intelligent woman - you're not a good woman. But if you want to do good, let the Black man go, and stop deceiving them, that you are really their "friend." If you were their friend, why did you kill Muammar Gadhafi?

Louis Farrakhan

The good man has his enemies. He would not be like His Lord if he had not. If we were without enemies we might fear that we were not the friends of God, for friendship of the world is enmity to God.

Charles Spurgeon

Dog becomes a good friend with man whether the man himself is good or not!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

The service a man renders his friend is trivial and selfish, compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him, alike before he had begun to serve his friend, and now also. Compared with that good-will I bear my friend, the benefit it is in my power to render him seems small.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.