Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.


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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.
SPANISH PROVERB
The habitude of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it ...
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets enmity.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbor.
G. K. CHESTERTON
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON
Much silence makes a powerful noise. -African proverb.
AFRICAN PROVERB
I'm a very tough guy, and I fight hard, and I don't give up. And that makes me friends and t...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ
Not all things have to be scrutinized, nor all friends tested, not all enemies exposed and denounced
SPANISH PROVERB
While friends are there to motivate us and keep us pleased. Our enemies are there to annoy us, which...
SIMON ZINGERMAN
It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.
CONFUCIUS
It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great
CONFUCIUS
A man who lies about beer makes enemies
STEPHEN KING
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
JACQUES DELILLE
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends
JACQUES DELILLE
Life's irony;The truth lovehate the lie because, the lie makes it exist & also makes it temporarily ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Life's Irony;The truth lovehates the lie because,the lie makes it exist & also makes it to temporari...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Love your enemies. It makes them so damned mad.
ANONYMOUS
I like to have powerful enemies. Makes me feel important.
LEIGH BARDUGO
You know, maybe we don't need enemies."
"Yeah, best friends aree about all I can take.
BILL WATTERSON
Prosperity makes few friends.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES
Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
STEPHEN KING
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
STEPHEN KING
Enemies disguise as friends and friends as enemies.
SOMAN CHAINANI
An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth, "He who has a thousand friends has not a ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
It is not courage that makes us speak the truth, but it is a hunger for truth that makes us courageo...
AGONA APELL
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS)
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
E. T. BELL
Great men look greater than yesterday.
TOBA BETA
The only thing that makes your enemies jealous is when they see you happy and enjoying yourself...
VARSHA RAMESH
I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
Today's enemies can be your friends tomorrow. And today's friends can be tomorrow's enemies.
SUZY KASSEM
'Tis not antiquity, nor author, That makes truth truth, altho' time's daughter.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
An enemy makes a true friends value apparent.
DAVID HOWELL
Tell the truth and make enemies, ...many enemies
TROY J. GAINEY
Trust without truth makes something with anything and everything as nothing.
ANUJ SOMANY
That's ridiculous. The only point in having enemies is so you can defeat them, kill them, brush them...
DEREK LANDY
He makes no friends who never made a foe.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
SHIRLEY MACLAINE
He makes no friends who never made a foe
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
He makes no friends who never made a foe.
ALFRED TENNYSON
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
LEWIS MUMFORD
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers
LEWIS MUMFORD
Yes, if truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the tru...
RAVI ZACHARIAS
Truth that is not undergirded by love makes the truth obnoxious and the possessor of it repulsive.
RAVI ZACHARIAS
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
SHANA ALEXANDER
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
PABLO PICASSO
He is the freeman whom the truth makes free.
WILLIAM COWPER
But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful (Proverbs 27:6).
BIBLE
Time is relative... The mind makes it slow, the heart makes it fast, our friends make it worth while...
UNKNOWN
Christina Aguilera and I are friends no matter what the media makes up.
BRITNEY SPEARS
There is no proverb without a grain of truth
RUSSIAN PROVERB
Arrogance makes one victim of self pride and inflicts with the fondness of selfishness to the degree...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.
MAX LERNER
Prosperity makes few friends. [Fr., La proserite fait peu d'amis.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES
Christina [Aguilera] and I are friends no matter what the media makes up.
BRITNEY SPEARS
Friends becomes enemies, enemies become friends, no matter what happpens stay focused and stay true ...
OLASOT
My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes ...
MARIAN KEYES
Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
GEORGE HERBERT
Don't make the mistake of underestimating your enemies.
BOHDI SANDERS
The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.
CARL REINER
The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh
CARL REINER
Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.
PABLO PICASSO
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
LUDWIG BORNE
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
LUDWIG BORNE
Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
PABLO PICASSO
When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them.
BIBLE
It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and idea...
NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ
Coming from a large family makes you feel protected - you have friends and allies.
PAUL MCGANN
Friends becomes enemies, enemies become friends, no matter what happpens the end justifies the means...
OLASOT
It is that truth sometimes feels like cruelty to hear, makes it no less the truth.
GILLIAN DUCE
He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides.
WILLIAM COWPER
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and f...
CHARLES PEGUY
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and f...
CHARLES PEGUY
Misfortune tests friends, and detects enemies
DOROTHY PARKER
Misfortune tests friends, and detects enemies
ESKIMO PROVERB
Friends come and go, enemies accumulate.
KEN NDARU
Misfortune tests friends, and detects enemies
DAVID TYSON GENTRY
Love your enemies and hate your friends, your enemies remain the same your friends always change
50 CENT
I'm not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.
TOM PETTY
He who does not bellow out the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars a...
CHARLES PEGUY
Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.
WERNER HERZOG
Such is human memory... you forget the truth and believe what makes you feel better.
RICK RIORDAN
There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.
DORIS LESSING
Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.
ARTHUR BLOCH
What makes creative people tingle are interesting problems, the chance to impress their friends, and...
ALEX STEFFEN
Enemies Teach. Friends Preach.
TAPAN GHOSH
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
HERBERT AGAR
We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
PABLO PICASSO
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN
The truth which makes me free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear
HERBERT AGAR
Treachery darkens the chain of friendship, but truth makes it brighter than ever.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
ANATOLE FRANCE
Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
Sundays are my biggest enemies because it technically makes me remind of someone i missed from my li...
MADHU RAJ GHUSAR
Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
David and I are good friends, so it should be nice out there tomorrow. This is a strong field, so it...
DAVID HOWELL
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
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