Ethiopian Proverb Quotes

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

My eighty percent friend is not my twenty percent enemy.

Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never.

Be on guard against your friends.

Whoever said “Keep your enemies close” didn’t have many enemies.

No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend,and there are many more of these than one would suspect.

Know this, if someone has cheated on you who truly loves you, they have hurt themselves as much as they have hurt you.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.

I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.

If you're an enemy, I would love for you to be a fan, because I don't like enemies.

Never attempt to buy the favor of your enemies at the expense of your friends.

It takes years to turn enmity to amity.

A needle’s eye is wide enough for two friends; the whole world is too narrow for two foes.

it's easier to forgive your enemies than to forgive your friends.

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

He who loves his enemies betrays his friends; this surely is not what Jesus meant.

Because I had goodwill for all, I thought all were my friends. And then I learned of treachery, that some preferred my end. It wasn't the goodwill I felt that made someone a friend. What handy day, the one I learned the meaning of the word. How good to know my enemies (though their reasons are absurd!)

Friendship must never be buried under the weight of misunderstanding.

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

I heard my mother talking badly of me to people who were talking badly of me in her salon. That's probably the thing that I'm most sensitive of in all my friendships and my relationships. I just... I just can't take that. I'm comfortable with enemies, but I can't take it from friends.

I think maintaining relationships with my friends, my mother, my manager, they're all important.