The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

About Mark Twain

Portrait of Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature". Twain's novels include...

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

When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news.

One must desire something to be alive.

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

More quotations tagged with “enemies”

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.

—Joseph Heller

Now the trumpet summons us again—not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are—but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation"—a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself.

—John F. Kennedy

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

—John F. Kennedy

Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall—but don't rush to pick him up either.

—Jewish Proverb

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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