You never really know your friends from your enemies until the ice breaks


Eskimo Proverb

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What your enemies know can hurt you,
but what your friends know can destroy you.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.
ORSON SCOTT CARD
Never explain―your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
ELBERT HUBBARD
Never explain -- your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
ELBERT HUBBARD
Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
ELBERT HUBBARD
Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
ELBERT HUBBARD
Love your enemies and hate your friends, your enemies remain the same your friends always change
50 CENT
Your enemies follow you more ,than your friends .
KOWSALAPATHY
You remembered your friends but what you didn't know was that "friends" are just as close as enemies
JUSTIN JONES
Never Explain - your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway. -Elbert ...
ELBERT HUBBARD
Friends never turn as enemies. If they did, they were never your friends at all.
HARK HERALD SARMIENTO
Never explain yourself. Your friends don’t need it and your enemies won’t believe it
ZIAD K ABDELNOUR
Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway.
ELBERT HUBBARD
You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.
JURGEN SCHREMPP
Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.
MARIO PUZO
Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.
SUN-TZU
Keep your friends close - hold your enemies closer
ARABIAN PROVERB
Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer.
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI
Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.
TIM FARGO
The enemies of your enemies are not always your friends, but they can still be useful.
JAMES D. SASS
Choose your friends carefully but don’t worry about your enemies, they will choose you
CARL HENEGAN
The sea is a lonely and hostile place, Captain,' Jansen said coldly. 'It is always best not to make ...
JOCELYN MURRAY
Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be you...
SARA SHEPARD
Today's enemies can be your friends tomorrow. And today's friends can be tomorrow's enemies.
SUZY KASSEM
If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
DESMOND TUTU
If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
MOSHE DAYAN
If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
MOSHE DAYAN
If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA
If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
MOSHE DAYAN
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS
Don't explain. Your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you
PAULO COELHO
YOU will never know your STRENGTH until you overcome the WORST
SARVESH
I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
ANN RICHARDS
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've wa...
NICHOLSON BAKER
Keep your friends close, your enemies closer and your wallets even closer.
JOETTE ROCKOW
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watche...
NICHOLSON BAKER
Your father you esteem.
Your mother you pamper.
Your relatives you regard.
Your frien...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
You never know what you have, until you clean your closet.
ANONYMOUS
You have friends and you have enemies, the trick is mastering that the only difference between the t...
KEYSHA JADE
Assume Nothing!
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer!
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Live e...
J.K. KELLY
You can make only enemies and not friends out of your money.
KOWSALAPATHY
Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.
E. W. HOWE
Talk well of your friends and of your enemies say nothing.
PROVERB
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE
Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.
EDWARD W. HOWE
Warning!!! Very important, please read!!! Vodka and ice will ruin your kidneys. Rum and ice will rui...
RICHARD SCHANBERGER
When the (expletive) hits the fans, you really know who your friends are.
ANSON FUNDERBURGH
Enemies can't break your spirit, only friends can.
ARUNDHATI ROY
The nearest I can make it out, "Love your Enemies" means, "Hate your Friends"
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Love your friends with your eyes closed, but love your enemies with both eyes open.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
You will never really think hard about your life until your oxygen mask is taken away from you when ...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
If this is how you treat your friends, no wonder you have so many enemies.
TERESA OF ÁVILA
Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be bastards.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
It is easy to remember your enemies, its easy to forget your friends
AUSTRALIAN PROVERB
Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be bastards.
BERNARD MELTZER
Be careful, you are not in Wonderland. I’ve heard the strange madness long growing in your soul. B...
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DEEKSHITH SHETTY
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WALTER KIRN
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.
MARIO PUZO
You have so many friends around the league but when you step on the ice, it's forgotten. We're all g...
AKI BERG
You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.
BOB MARLEY
You will never know true happiness until you have faced the true sadness in your life.
GRANT FAIRLEY
When you look back from your Olympic experience, you never want to question whether you could have d...
ANGELA RUGGIERO
Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemi...
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You really won't know where your home is until you meet your own kind and realize you're both playin...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Friends is all you need until the time of your death
EINSTINE ORLINE G. NERCUIT
It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you...
LANA TURNER
You have so much to learn from your enemies.
ECKHART TOLLE
Never get close to your enemies, you might start liking them.
CRISTIAN L. MARTINEZ
Always see yourself as somebody. Your enemies see you as somebody, that‘s why they attack you. You...
VICTOR ONAOLA
Keep your friends close, your enemies closer, and your family even closer because one of them is a b...
FIGHTIUM
Keep your friends close, your enemies close and your family damn close because one of them is a back...
FIGHTIUM
Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.
R A DICKSON
Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.
R A DICKSON
Never love with all your heart, it only ends in breaking. English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB
Never love with all your heart, it only ends in breaking. English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB
It is not necessary to have enemies if you go out of your way to make friends hate you.
FRANK DANE
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS
Once you raise your own child and you will comprehend the hardship of your parents. – Chinese prov...
CHINESE PROVERB
My father said to remember your enemies as well as your friends, and don't trust either of them.
STEVEN HERRICK
What you know is dangerous to your enemies. What you think you know is dangerous to yourself.
JARVIS DUVEL GAYDEN
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, ...
ORSON SCOTT CARD
Learn from your mistakes but expect your enemies to learn from theirs.
SALLY GREEN
You will never know how much you can accomplish until you try. Never stop trying. Your miracle will ...
LAILAH GIFTYAKITA
Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
MARGARET MITCHELL
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Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends withou...
FRANCIS MACDONALD CORNFORD
Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends withou...
FRANCES CORNFORD
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ANNIE DILLARD
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ANNIE DILLARD
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
THOMAS A KEMPIS
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.
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From small beginnings come great things.
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Some will, some don't, so what!
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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.
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Make peace with man and war with your sins.
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A sin confessed is half forgiven.
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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.
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It is better to be safe than sorry.
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Better to be safe than sorry.
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A soft answer turneth away wrath.
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Cunning surpasses strength.
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The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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A good speaker makes a good liar.
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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.
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When at a loss how to go on, cough.
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Speak when you are spoken to.
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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.
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The less people think the more they talk.
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Speak little and to the purpose.
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Speak and the man shall be shown.
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The soul is not where it lives, but where it loves.
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A little body often harbors a great soul.
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Life without a friend is death without a witness.
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Vengeance is a dish best eaten cold.
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He has hard work who has nothing to do.
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Rest breeds rust.
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Private reproof is the best grave for private faults.
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By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.
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The one who pleased everybody died before they were born.
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Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.
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A wicked book cannot repent.
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The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
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Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood.
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Nothing weights lighter than a promise.
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He loses his thanks who promises and delays.
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There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give.
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One of these days, is none of these days.
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Short prayers reach heaven.
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Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.
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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
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Practice is the best master.
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When poverty comes in the door love flies out the window.
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Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.
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When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.
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Visits always give pleasure; if not the arrival, the departure.
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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.
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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.
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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.
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Forever is a long bargain.
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Time and I against any two.
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Soon enough is well enough.
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If you wish for peace be ready for war.
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When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.
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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.
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Peace with a club in hand is war.
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Rome was not built in a day.
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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.
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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.
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Dios tarda pero no olvida -- God delays but doesn't forget.
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Patience is the key to paradise.
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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.
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Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten.
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Maternity is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion.
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That which is escaped now is pain to come.
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A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.
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Nothing is more elegant than ready money!
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It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.
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Riches have wings.
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A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.
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As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.
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You can't take it with you when you go.
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After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.
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To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
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The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old.
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Great is the victory that is gained without bloodshed.
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Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom.
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The gods sell all things at a fair price.
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Something you don't want is dear at any price.
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Necessity unites.
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Time tries truth.
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Tell the truth and then run.
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Truth is the daughter of time.
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Truth fears nothing but concealment.
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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.
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If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
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Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.
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The Devil finds work for idle hands.
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