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  •    The L ismy shepherd; Ishall not want.He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.Yea, though I walk through the valleyof theshadow of death,I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the L for ever.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDORDPsalms 23:1^6.

  • The L said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDPsalms110:1.

  • Lo, children are an heritage of the L: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDPsalms127:3^5.

  • Ye have heard that it hath been said,Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hatethineenemy.But Isayuntoyou,Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to themthat hate you, and pray for them whichdespitefully use you, and persecute you.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St Matthew 5:43^4.

  • He must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Corinthians15:26.

  • My bones are smitten asunder as with a sword: while mine enemies that trouble me cast me in the teeth; Namely, while they say daily unto me: Where is now thy God?

    -Book of Common Prayer
    Psalm 42:12^13.

  • A legal gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies, and keeps it himself.

    -Vaux
    His definitionof a lawyer. Quoted in Richard Fountain The Wit of the Wig (1968).

  • All the friends that I loved and wanted to reward are dead, and all the enemies that I hated and I had marked out for punishment are turned to my friends.

    -James Buchanan
      Onfinally achieving his country's highest politicaloffice at the age of 65.

  • People crushed by law have no hope but from power. If laws are theirenemies, they will be enemiesto laws; and those, who have much to hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous, more or less.

    - Edmund Burke
      Letter to Charles  James Fox, 8 Oct.

  •    Whether we bringourenemiestojustice, orbring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.

    - GeorgeW(alker) Bush
    Address to a joint session of Congress, 20 Sep.

  • I've inherited100 percent of his enemies and only50 per cent of his friends.

    - GeorgeW(alker) Bush
      Of the influence of his father, former President George Bush, on his campaign for governor. In the Washington Times, 12 Oct.

  •    Those enemies to Irelandthose cruel absentees!

    - Maria Edgeworth
      Count O'Halloran. The Absentee, ch.8.

  •    Happiness lies in conquering one's enemies, in driving them in front of oneself, in taking their property, in savouring their despair, in outraging their wives and daughters.

    -Genghis Khan originally Temujin
    c.1210  Quoted in Witold Rodzinski The Walled Kingdom:  A History of China (1979).

  • The Huns†chanted a funeral song to the memory of a hero, glorious inhis life, invincible in his death, the father of his people, the scourge of his enemies, and the terror of the world.

    - Edward Gibbon
    ^88  Description of the funeralof  Attila the Hun. TheDecline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ch.35.

  • You are honored by your friends†distinguished by your enemies. I have been very distinguished.

    -J(ohn) Edgar Hoover
    Address to the House Sub-Committee on  Appropriations. Quoted in Curt Gentry  J Edgar Hoover (1991).

  • For a politician rises on the backs of his friends (that's probably all they're good for), but it's through his enemies he'll have to govern afterwards.

    - Richard Arthur Warren Hughes
    The Fox in the Attic, bk.2, ch.20.

  • The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.

    -William Ralph Inge
      The End of an  Age, ch.4.

  • With a heavy step Sir Matthew left the room and spent the morning designing mausoleums for his enemies.

    - Eric Robert Linklater
    Juan in  America, prologue.

  • O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies,O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age! Light the prime work of God to me is extinct, And all her various objects of delight Annull'd, which might in part my grief have eas'd, Inferior to the vilest now become Of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, They creep, yet see, I dark in light expos'd To daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, 586 Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.

    -John Milton
    Samson  Agonistes, l.67^79.

  •    Uberzeugungen sind gef a« hrlichere Feinde der Wahrheit als Lu«  gen. Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

    - FriedrichWilhelm Nietzsche
      Menschliches,  Allzumenschliches (Human,  All Too Human), section 483 (translated by R  J Hollingdale).

  • We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies.Our interests are eternal, and it is our duty to follow them.

    - HenryJohnTemple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
      Speech, House of Commons,1 Mar.

  • I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

    -Will Rogers
    Quoted in Michael HobbsThe Golf Quotation Book (1992).

  • War, then, is not a relationship between man and man, but between State and State, in which private persons are only enemies accidentally.

    -JeanJacques Rousseau
    Quoted in A J P Taylor From the BoerWar to the ColdWar: Essays onTwentieth-Century Europe (1995),'War and Peace', p.15.

  • Por las verdades se pierden los amigos, e per las non dezir se fazen desamigos. Telling the truth loses you friends; not telling it gains you enemies.

    -Juan Ruiz
    c.1330  Libro de Buen Amor, stanza165.

  • Je combattrai pour l'Homme. Contre ses ennemis. Mais aussi contre moi-me"  me. I shall fight for mankind. Against his enemies.But also against myself.

    - Antoine de Saint-Exupe  ry
      Pilote de guerre.

  • He was in a few hours of giving his enemies the slip for ever.

    - Laurence Sterne
    ^67  Of Eugenis.Tristram Shandy, bk.1, ch.12.

  •    A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

    - Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills Wilde
    The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch.1.

  • Mr Bernard Shaw has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by all his friends.

    - Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills Wilde
    Quoted inW B Yeats Autobiographies (1955).

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