"Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind."

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"'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Enemy,

"A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy."

Early Wynn, American Athlete

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"Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law."

Demosthenes, Greek Statesman

Enemy, Freedom, Law

"If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Enemy,

"Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation."

Francis Parker Yockey, American Writer

Enemy, Hatred, Public, Thinking

"It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak."

Morley Safer, Canadian Journalist

Enemy,

"It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him."

Olin Miller, American Columnist

Enemy,

"This stuff on enemy combatants, the Bush Administration has fought like a tiger to avoid having to produce any evidence to a judge to show why somebody is locked up in perpetuity. Another example of that is the torture scandal."

James Bovard, American Author

Enemy, Example, Scandal

"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Enemy, Man, Revenge

"I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers."

George Armstrong Custer, American Soldier

Enemy, March

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"It is easier to believe than to doubt."

Doubt

"I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down."

Humor

"Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running."

Running

"What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins."

Success

"Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead."

Blood

"Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief."

Water

"Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth."

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"'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems."

"A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy."

"Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law."

"If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril."

"Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation."

"It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak."

"It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him."

"This stuff on enemy combatants, the Bush Administration has fought like a tiger to avoid having to produce any evidence to a judge to show why somebody is locked up in perpetuity. Another example of that is the torture scandal."

"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior."

"I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers."

Explore more quotes by Gene Fowler

"It is easier to believe than to doubt."

"I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down."

"Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running."

"What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins."

"Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead."

"Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief."

"Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth."

"Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application."

"I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right."

"Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves."