A Quote by Frank Herbert

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

Frank Herbert

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Allies Enemies Make Stronger Weaker

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Frank Herbert
American - Writer
October 8, 1920 - February 11, 1986

We are in perilous territory the stronger Iran gets. And they're getting stronger. We should make them weaker.

Ron Johnson

We must make this campaign an exceedingly active one. Only thus can a weaker country cope with a stronger; it must make up in activity what it lacks in strength.

Stonewall Jackson

In war, the stronger overcomes the weaker. In business, the stronger imparts strength to the weaker.

Frederic Bastiat

Enemies make better allies than frenemies.

Adam Grant

What doesn't kill you, if you use it to make yourself stronger, then you will get stronger. But if you let it beat you down, then you will be weaker.

Brett Gelman

Ironically, the main task of chess software companies today is to find ways to make the program weaker, not stronger, and to provide enough options that any user can pick from different levels and the machine will try to make enough mistakes to give him a chance.

Garry Kasparov

He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.

William Shakespeare

In relationship there are always two types of person: one weaker and the other stronger one. It's never easier to live being as weaker one!

Chetan Bhagat

Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker... there is no escape... people drag others or lift others up.

Booker T. Washington

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

Alexander Pope

Woodrow Wilson says that if you want to make enemies, try to change something! Well, I think there is an easier way to make enemies: Tell the truths!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

When your true enemies are too strong, you have to choose weaker enemies.

Umberto Eco

If a weaker baboon be attacked by a stronger baboon the weaker baboon will either (a) present his hrump fanny I believe is the word, gentlemen, heh heh for passive intercourse or (b) if he is a different type baboon more extrovert and well-adjusted, lead an attack on an even weaker baboon if he can find one.

William S. Burroughs

The root of masculine is stronger, and of feminine weaker. The sun is a governing planet to certain planets, while the moon borrows her light from the sun, and is less or weaker.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Between a man and a woman there was always one person who was stronger than the other one. That doesn’t mean the weaker one doesn’t love the stronger.