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Fire, fear, foes! Awake!
— J.R.R. Tolkien
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
— Thomas Jefferson
Prayer is the condition by which all foes are to be overcome and all the inheritance is to be possessed.
— E. M. Bounds
So foes persue, and cold alliesmistrust me, every one:
let me be false in others' eyes
if faithful in my own — Emily Bronte
Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends; He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
— Charles Churchill
If you are foe, we do not fear you. If you are friend, your foes will be taught the fear of us.
— C.S. Lewis
Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.
— Friedrich Schiller
My candle burns at both ends;It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends
It gives a lovely light! — Edna St. Vincent Millay
The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy.
— Elizabeth I
Keep friends at your back and foes where you can see them.
— George R R Martin
The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.
— Thomas Huxley
There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes.
— James F. Cooper
Innovation keeps me ahead of my competition. It means that my foes must adapt to me, not the other way around.
— Georges St-Pierre
If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.
— George R R Martin
What could be more natural for this man than to draw to his bosom all with whom he shared that time, even his foes? Perhaps his foes more than any.
— Steven Pressfield
History and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.
— George Washington
Art thou deaf when friends are banned as foes?
— Sophocles
The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
— Elbert Hubbard
Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
— William Wycherley
I burned my candle at both ends, And now have neither foes nor friends.
— Samuel Hoffenstein
Women always find their bitterest foes among their own sex.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
When migraines briefly became a campaign issue for me, it appeared that political foes were maybe playing the gender card.
— Michele Bachmann
Nothing is more disreputable than wasting a reputation where it cannot be flaunted, for fame fades fast in fighting filthy foes.
— Andrew Chugg
If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.
— William Allingham
So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Count your joys instead of your woes; Count your friends instead of your foes." - Irish Saying
— Cedric Kelly
Advance our standards, set upon our foes;Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George,
Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons! — William Shakespeare
It is always better to admire the best among our foes rather than the worst among our friends
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.
— William Jennings Bryan
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The person who builds a character makes foes.
— Neil Young
I am a leg of the death tripod that will destroy our foes.
— Frank Herbert
Against her foes Religion well defends Her sacred truths, but often fears her friends.
— George Crabbe
We are fighting Germany, Austria and drink, and as far as I can see, the greatest of these three deadly foes is drink.
— David Lloyd George
Not all of your foes will appear in their true form. You must learn to trust your instincts.
— Kristin Cast
As flattering friends mislead, quarreling foes can often correct
— Augustine Of Hippo
I have two foes in the world, twins inextricably interrelated -- the hunger of the hungry and the glut of the glutted!
— Marina Tsvetaeva
After all, friends make for frightening foes.
— Romina Russell
Friends or foes, they are all instruments in Her hands to help us work out our own karma, through pleasure or pain. As such, 'Mother' bless all.
— Swami Vivekananda
Matthew 10:36," he'd said. "And a man's foes shall be they of his own household. Never forget that, Agent Lacoste.
— Louise Penny
Because people aren't always as they seem and the moral of the story is the apple isn't always sweet.
— Jasmine Sandozz
For our Hogwarts is in danger from external, deadly foesAnd we must unite inside her or we'll crumble from within — J.K. Rowling
When, on your dangerous mission gone,You underrate our foes as dunces,
Be wary, not of sudden gun,
But of your partner at the dances. — Stanley Kunitz
One would like to know, what were foes made for except to be used?
— Herman Melville
Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.
— John Podhoretz
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
Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
— Miguel De Cervantes
If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.
— Saskya Pandita
You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
— Joseph Conrad
An enemy forgiven is more dangerous than a thousand foes.
— Rodolfo Graziani
He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done.
— Charles Mackay
You shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: you must be proud of your foes. Thus have I already taught.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
There is no night as deep as thisInevitable mind's abyss
Where I now dwell with foes alone — Olive Fraser
Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
Are we friends? or are we foes? ... That kind of thing ... You decide ... For yourselves!!!
— Eiichiro Oda
The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war.
— Theodore Roosevelt
There was never a finer character - charitable and friendly to his foes and ever willing to help a youngster breaking in.
— Johnny Evers
It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls
— Aristophanes
The Goblins were the foes of all, and at their coming all other quarrels were forgotten.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Foes of what's cooking see no worth behind it. Those that are looking for nothing will find it.
— Piet Pieterszoon Hein
Under the Mountain dark and tall The King has come unto his hall! His foe is dead, the Worm of Dread, And ever so his foes shall fall.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Tis time to die when we are ourselves our foes.
— Thomas Middleton
Better confide and be deceiv'd,A thousand times, by treacherous foes,
Than once accuse the innocent,
Or let suspicion mar repose. — Frances Sargent Osgood
Make foes of bowmen if you must,Never of penmen. — Thiruvalluvar
The reconciling grave swallows distinction first, that made us foes; there all lie down in peace together.
— Thomas Southerne
Only you must have worthy foes hate, but not enemies worthy of contempt. You must be proud of your enemy.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Dreams so often become nightmares. Family can so easily become foes. And people are always more stupid than you give them credit for.
— Mike A. Lancaster
Only the king that has succeeded in subduing his senses is competent to resist his foes.
— Meera Uberoi
Ah! poor religion, thou hast been sorely shot at by cruel foes, but thou hast not been wounded one-half so dangerously by thy foes as by thy friends.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
— Joseph Conrad
A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes.
— Oliver Goldsmith
The man that makes a character, makes foes.
— Edward Young
That is Lord Foul's way in all things - to force his foes to become that which they most hate, and to destroy that which they most love.
— Stephen R. Donaldson
When we our betters see bearing our woes,We scarcely think our miseries our foes. — William Shakespeare
Two names on the page, his and hers, side by side. Two in a bed, lovers no longer but foes.
— J.M. Coetzee
O saving Victim, opening wide The gate of heaven to man below, Our foes press on from every side, Thine aid supply, Thy strength bestow.
— Thomas Aquinas
Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst
— William Shakespeare
