Weekend Words: Enemy
This week Bradley Manning was acquitted of charges of aiding the enemy. But in the immortal words of the prophet Pogo, "We have met the enemy and he is us."
This week Bradley Manning was acquitted of charges of aiding the enemy. But in the immortal words of the prophet Pogo, “We have met the enemy and he is us.”
“It takes your enemy and friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.”
—Samuel Clemens, Following the Equator
“If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink; by doing so thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.”
—Proverbs
“Money could buy you friends but it did get you a better class of enemy.”
—Spike Milligan
“Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.”
—Elie Wiesel
“I don’t have a warm personal enemy left. They’ve all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.”
—Clare Boothe Luce
“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
—William Blake, Jerusalem
“O God,
that men should put an enemy in their mouths to
steal away their brains! that we should, with joy,
pleasance, revel and applause, transform ourselves
into beasts!”
—William Shakespeare, Othello
“Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.”
—Henry Miller
