Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men to abstain from threats and insulting words toward anyone, for neither diminishes the strength of the enemy.
It is much safer to reconcile an enemy than to conquer him; victory may deprive him of his poison, but reconciliation of his will.
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.
We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.
Undue enmity with enemies does not serve the interests of the system. Enemies must be dealt with wisely and prudently.
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
I keep my enemies close/ I give 'em enough rope/ They put themselves in the air/ I just kick away the chair.
If you come from a wealthy country with open borders, unless you seriously believe you can kill, imprison or occupy all your enemies, you have to make a world with more friends and fewer enemies - with more partners and fewer terrorists.
In the restaurant business, you never want to have enemies, whereas it seems that many politicians judge their success by how high their enemies are and whether they can show that they can hold their ground and give a punch for every punch they take.
The idea is to go to bed every night with fewer enemies than you had in the morning.
Who, last time I'd checked, was still on our official archenemy list. (Yes, we have to keep a list. It's kind of sad.)
I'm not making an enemy; I'm keepin' one.
From the point of the view of the nation's power, it was obvious that while we were fighting the Sino-Japanese war, every effort was to be made to avoid adding to our enemies and opening additional fronts.
I can't afford a whole new set of enemies.
It is far better to keep the enemy close, by bribing him with stock options, than to have him out in the wild, foraging.
Though, if you think about it, hostile, dethroned pseudodeities probably make disagreeable neighbors. You'll have to figure out something to do with him.
