Muhammad Iqbal Quotes

Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.

Aziraphale. The Enemy, of course. But an enemy for six thousand years now, which made him a sort of friend.

He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friend like him.

The light and the dark are the same. They share. They really do rub up against each other, and they are extraordinarily familiar with each other. They are actually friends.

Do not ask the definition of a friend. He/She is that one without whose company death and dying set in earlier and living is made more pleasurable.

We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.

Good and bad may not be dissevered; There is, as there should be, a commingling.

Only Jesus would be crazy enough to suggest that if you want to become the greatest, you should become the least. Only Jesus would declare God's blessing on the poor rather than on the rich and would insist that it's not enough to just love your friends. I just began to wonder if anybody still believed Jesus meant those things he said.

By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher levels until all our fellows ascend with us.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our own virtues.

The beginning of it starts at the end

Though it is a great mistake to make friends of the wicked and foolish, it is unwise to make enemies of them, for they are very numerous.

Doors are for those who lack enemies.

Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.

Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.

By humility, out of an enemy He has made a friend, which is more than to have created a new earth.

I don't want to lie. I can't tell the truth. So it's over.

Life is probably a tangle of love and hate permanently knotted together.

A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.

Bruno: We're not supposed to be friends, you and me. We're meant to be enemies. Did you know that?

Invite your friend to dinner; have nothing to do with your enemy.

God has given us speech in order that we may say pleasant things to our friends, and tell bitter truths to our enemies.

The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine.

Even enemies were an inch away from friendship.

It's funny how you can know your friends so well, but you still end up playing the same games with them.