Matthew Henry Quotes

The fool is his own enemy. Seeking wealth, he destroys himself. Seek rather the other shore.

There is only one element that can break the Afrikaner, and that is the Afrikaner himself. It is when the Afrikaner, like a baboonshot in the stomach, pulls out his own intestines. We must guard against that.

Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

A man that is a friend to everyone is an enemy to himself.

A Tyrant is most tyrant to himselfe.

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.

He dies twice who perishes by his own weapons.

I wanted to get punished, and I took unnecessary punishment when I was fighting.

He has no worse enemy than himself.

No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.

Nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves.

A pill to make you numb A pill to make you dumb A pill to make you anybody else But all the drugs in this world Won't save her from herself.

The only person I have hurt is myself.

A man's venom poisons himself more than his victims.

Man is his own worst enemy.

Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.

Self-inflicted misery smirks under its crown of thorns.

The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.

Don't cut off your nose yourself.

I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.

There is no power on earth that can loosen a man's grip on his own throat

So many means of self-destruction, so little time.

Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.