Foe Quotes
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Love is a funny thing, isn't it? The presence of it can bring you to save a foe, the absence of it can make you hurt your own flesh.
— Stefanie Schneider
Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
— Alexander Pope
Scratch a lover, and find a foe.
— Dorothy Parker
The best way to destroy your enemies is to make them adopt your worldview
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.
— Bertrand Russell
Then if my friendships break and bend, There's little need to cry The while I know that every foe Is faithful till I die.
— Dorothy Parker
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
— Henry David Thoreau
There will be no fraternal strife while the foe is at the gate.
— Menachem Begin
But evil fortune has decreed, (The foe of mice as well as men) The royal mouse at last should bleed, Should fall ne'er to arise again.
— Michael Bruce
As with ships, so with men; he who turns his back to his foe gives him an advantage.
— Herman Melville
Dear is my friendyet from my foe, as from my friend, comes good:
My friend shows what I can do, and my foe what I should. — Friedrich Schiller
Time well employed is Satan's deadliest foe; it leaves no opening for the lurking fiend.
— Carlos Wilcox
His foe was folly and his weapon wit.
— Anthony Hope
Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies; Nay, who but infants question in such wise, twas one of my most intimate enemies.
— Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.
— Bill Moyers
Blessed, blessed is the Knower of the Lord, my True Guru, He has taught me to look upon friend and foe alike.
— Guru Gobind Singh
Darkness is not always a foe.
— Susan Dennard
Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free.
— John Piper
Christ broke the bonds of death by His resurrection, and from that moment on, Satan was a defeated foe.
— Billy Graham
Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth.
— A.W. Tozer
A fop of fashion is the mercer's friend, the tailor's fool, and his own foe.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess.
— Tallulah Bankhead
I burned my candle at both ends, And now have neither foes nor friends.
— Samuel Hoffenstein
The power of the night, the press of the storm, the post of the foe; where he stands, the Arch Fear in a visible form, yet, the strong man must go.
— Robert Browning
Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Woman -a foe of friendship, an inescapable punishment, a necessary evil.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Complacency is easy ... and it is a deadly foe of spiritual growth.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
How exactly does a steam-powered gun turret differentiate between friend and foe? I wasn't aware that boiled water could form allegiances.
— Yahtzee Croshaw
Know your foe, Ser Rodrik had taught him once.
— George R R Martin
The whole history of Christianity proves that she has little indeed to fear from persecution as a foe, but much to fear from persecution as an ally.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
What was to fear from a foe that could be defeated by a few potholes and the heat of the sun?
— Esther Spurrill Jones
Only in the worst moment will you know: Friend or Foe!
— Hanna Jansen
Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.
— Quintus Ennius
If nobody will be so kind as to become my foe, I shall need no more fleets nor armies, and shall be forced to reduce my taxes.
— Thomas Paine
It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.
— Henry David Thoreau
Since the foe of the human race was vanquished not as by God but as by man, as Pope Leo says
— Peter Kreeft
The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.
— Emily Bronte
And though a sworn foe to human bloodshed, yet had he in his straight-bodied coat, spilled tuns upon tuns of leviathan gore.
— Herman Melville
I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.
— Abraham Lincoln
He wants worth who dares not praise a foe.
— John Dryden
Foes of what's cooking see no worth behind it. Those that are looking for nothing will find it.
— Piet Pieterszoon Hein
The most convincing and enduring foe of the global financial economy ultimately is the global financial economy itself. - Ulrich Beck
— Richard Swift
Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.
— William Shakespeare
Withhold no sacrifice, grudge no toil, seek no sordid gain, fear no foe. All will be well.15
— Winston S. Churchill
Death is not a foe, but an inevitable adventure.
— Oliver Lodge
Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends.
— Winston Churchill
But you neither friend nor foe, though I can't seem to let you go, the one thing that I still know is that your keeping me DOWN!
— Sara Bareilles
Great. "So not only am I not-human, but Death is my arch foe?" Who, me? Panic? "Anything else you want to tell me, while we're confessing?
— Rachel Vincent
May you always have ale enough to wet your tongues, wit enough to know friend from foe, and strength enough for every fight.
— Stephen R. Lawhead
Where's the point in fighting and slaying if you can make a friend out of anybeast instead of a foe?
— Brian Jacques
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
— William Shakespeare
And children know,Instinctive taught, the friend and foe. — Walter Scott
Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.
— Nicholas Breton
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
— Aristophanes
I'm a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water.
— Gore Vidal
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
— Juvenal
Alone. "A military unit is a fine thing when it works," he said. "But it usually don't work. A solitary feat of arms is better, if the foe is worthy.
— Larry McMurtry
Liberty's chief foe is theology.
— Charles Bradlaugh
Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, and he who saith thou shalt to me is my mortal foe!
— Anton Szandor LaVey
Bravery is not strength in the face of a far lesser foe. Bravery is the exact opposite of that.
— Hank Green
We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.
— William E. Gladstone
Radical Islam has been the foe of Christendom for centuries.
— Tom Tancredo
God dramatically slew one monstrous opponent and then threw us into the arena against a stronger and more vicious foe.
— K. Howard Joslin
To not give your foe the respect that he is due gives him an opening in your defenses that he can exploit.
— Terry Mancour
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
— John Dryden
Is that the secret meaning of the word story, do you think: a storing place of memories?
— J.M. Coetzee
One would like to know, what were foes made for except to be used?
— Herman Melville
Courage, ne'er by sorrow broken! Aid where tears of virtue flow; Faith to keep each promise spoken! Truth alike to friend and foe!
— Friedrich Schiller
Man invents the most inhuman armaments to assault others so like himself that uniforms are needed to distinguish between friend and foe.
— Thor Heyerdahl
Thank Fate for foes! I hold mine dear As valued friends. He cannot know The zest of life who runneth here His earthly race without a foe ...
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Adversity is neither friend nor foe. It is a common acquaintance that is desired less and rewarded most when embraced.
— Carolyn Wells
to the foe in the field you need not yield"
— Leo Tolstoy
Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
— Alexander Pope
Never wound a foe when you can kill him. Dead men don't claim vengeance.
— George R R Martin
I am a foe to tyrants, and my country's friend.
— Seth Grahame-Smith
Time, the foe of man's dominion,Wheels around in ceaseless flight,
Scattering from his hoary pinion
Shades of everlasting night. — Thomas Love Peacock
There is no occasion for our rejoicing at a foe's death, because our own life will also not last forever.
— Bill Vaughan
An honest hand and a true heart may hew amiss; and the harm may be harder to bear than the work of a foe.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
I wish my deadly foe no worse Than want of friends, and empty purse.
— Nicholas Breton
Virtue owns a more eternal foe Than Force or Fraud: old Custom, legal Crime, And bloody Faith the foulest birth of Time.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Call no man a foe, but never love a stranger.
— Stella Benson
