“If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you.”
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Hunter S. Thompson 268
American journalist and author 1937–2005Related quotes

“If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”
As quoted in Newsweek (17 October 1977)

“If you make friends with yourself, you'll never be alone.”
Variant: If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.

Gift Of A Friend
Lyrics, Here We Go Again (2009)

Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 42, “Beneath the Uduntree” (p. 718).
Context: “Never make your home in a place,” the old man had said, too lazy in the spring warmth to do more than wag a finger. “Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You’ll find what you need to furnish it—memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things.” Morgenes had grinned. “That way it will go with you wherever you journey. You’ll never lack for a home—unless you lose your head, of course...”
Source: The Goblin Quest Series, Goblin Hero (2007), Chapter 7 (p. 117)
“If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you.”
How to Win Friends and Influence People