#enemy

I can do nothing with the enemy save observe him. ↗

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#brain #enemy #flesh #last #long

The enemy now began to appear from the mast-head. ↗

— John Byng

#began #enemy #now

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#few #friends #his #indeed #life

The word was enough. It ran like fire along the line, from man to man, and rose into a shout, with which they sprang forward upon the enemy, now not 30 yards away. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

#away #enemy #enough #fire #forward

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#criminality #enemy #folly #gates #luxury

A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#distant #enemy #gate #preferable

A friend is nothing but a known enemy. ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#friend #known #nothing

There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall. ↗