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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

Fee fi foe fum, she's scratching on my back. Oh, here she comes. — Eazy-E

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 friend
yet from my foe, as from my friend, comes good:
My friend shows what I can do, and my foe what I should. — Friedrich Schiller

Fucking family. Feeble and forlorn and floundering and foolish and frustrating and functional and sad, sad. Fucking family. Fiend or foe. — Rick Moody

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

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse. — John Gay

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

This is sweet to see your foe, perish and pay to justice all he owes. — Euripides

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

The legends say that the god Mars was the parent of tears, foe to dance and lute. — Pierce Brown

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

Yet Lillian is all heart and love, but fearless in the face of foe. — Morrissey

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

It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe. — Anne Bronte

The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason. — Charles Caleb Colton

Whoever has his foe at his mercy, and does not kill him, is his own enemy — Saadi

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

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. — Gautama Buddha

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

A foe to God ne'er was true friend to man, Some sinister intent taints all he does. — Edward Young

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

Remember that all is One ... and what you do to your neighbor, your friend or your foe, is a reflection of what you think of your Creator. — Edgar Cayce

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

Concealment, my dear Maria, is the foe of tranquility: however I may err in future, I will never be disingenuous in acknowledging my errors. To — Fanny Burney

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

Wait not while your foe fits arrow to bowstring when you can send your own arrow into him. — Babur

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

Nothing excites compassion, in friend and foe alike, as much as the sight of you ker-splonked on the Tarmac with your propeller buried six feet under. — Boris Johnson

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

By the time she lay down, the darkness was a friend not a foe. — Sarah McCoy

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

Whenever thy hand can reach it, tear out the foe's brain, for such an opportunity washes anger from the mind. — Saadi

I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow. — William Blake