Jason David Frank Quotes

It takes years to turn enmity to amity.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Enmity immediately tumbles away when one side lets it fall.

Love is a rare herb that makes a friend even of a sworn enemy and this herb grows out of nonviolence.

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

Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

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.

A close friend can become a close enemy.

Eventually, I moved from a place of anger toward the Jews of Israel toward a place of embrace.

If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.

The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.

Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.

I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.

By intensity of hatred, nations create in themselves the character that they imagine in their enemies. Hence it comes that all passionate conflicts result in an interchange of characteristics. We might say with truth, those who hate open a door by which their enemies enter and make their own the secret places of the heart.

May peace rule the universe, may peace rule in kingdoms and empires, may peace rule in states and in the lands of the potentates, may peace rule in the house of friends and may peace also rule in the house of enemies.

The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with all.

War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.