Quotes about Foe

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge. Votes: 4

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe. Votes: 4

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

The ancient feud between cat and dog is not forgotten in the north, for the Lynx is the deadly foe of the Fox and habitually kills it when there is soft snow and scarcity of easier prey. Votes: 4

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. Votes: 4

I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place. Votes: 4

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes. Votes: 4

Foe unvanquished, I will not perish in the field; I will be born again to take up the halberd seven more times. Votes: 3

Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That's part of the normal diplomatic relations. Votes: 3

I'm looking forward to locking swords with Douglas Henshall and working against the stunning backdrop of Shetland. I came to Scotland a lot in the 70s and 80s in various theatre productions and of course to film Hallam Foe but this is the furthest I've ever been. Votes: 3

Scratch a lover, and find a foe. Votes: 2

Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe. Votes: 2

Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity. Votes: 2

He makes no friends who never made a foe. Votes: 2

A strong foe is better than a weak friend. Votes: 2

Call no man a foe, but never love a stranger. Votes: 2

Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe. Votes: 2

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. Votes: 2

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within. Votes: 2

The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. Votes: 2

It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe. Votes: 2

It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe. Votes: 2

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself. Votes: 2

I wish my deadly foe no worse Than want of friends, and empty purse. Votes: 2

I wish my deadly foe, no worse than want of friends, and empty purse. Votes: 2

Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw. Votes: 2

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe. Votes: 2

Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail. Votes: 2

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. Votes: 2

Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed. Votes: 2

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence. Votes: 2

We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us. Votes: 2

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me. Votes: 2

If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me. Votes: 2

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! Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes. Votes: 2

The lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis is plain: Strength prevents war; weakness invites it. We need a commander-in-chief who understands that - and who won't leave us facing a foe who thinks he doesn't. Votes: 2

Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach. Votes: 2

Up from the grave He arose, with a mighty triumph o'er his foes. He arose the victor from the dark domain and He lives forever with his saints to reign. He arose! He arose! Hallelujah..,Ch rist arose! Votes: 2

The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart. Votes: 2

By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on a new and more respectable footing, both with regard to the operations of war or negotiations with foreign powers Votes: 2

Where I would fault President Bush the most was that, in the wake of 9/11, he motivated our military, but he didn't call the nation into a state of war. And he didn't explain that this would take though a communal effort against common foe. Votes: 2

Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ. Votes: 2

Liberty's chief foe is theology. Votes: 0

A conquered foe should be watched. Votes: 0

Concealment is the foe of tranquility. Votes: 0

Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration. Votes: 0

Luxury is more deadly than any foe. Votes: 0

Reality is always the foe of famous names. Votes: 0

None but yourself who are your greatest foe. Votes: 0

I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. Votes: 0

Death is not a foe, but an inevitable adventure. Votes: 0

And children know, Instinctive taught, the friend and foe. Votes: 0

An ignorant friend is worse than a learned foe. Votes: 0

As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe. Votes: 0

Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with. Votes: 0

He makes no friend who never made a foe. Votes: 0

A friend to honesty and a foe to crime Votes: 0

The battle is over when the foe has fallen. Votes: 0

Call no man foe, but never love a stranger. Votes: 0

He wants worth who dares not praise a foe. Votes: 0

Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled. Votes: 0

Radical Islam has been the foe of Christendom for centuries. Votes: 0

Folded hands may conceal a dagger --Likewise a foe's tears. Votes: 0

Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe. Votes: 0

I am a foe to tyrants, and my country's friend. Votes: 0

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication. Votes: 0

The laws allow arms to be taken against an armed foe. Votes: 0

He is wise that can make a friend of a foe. Votes: 0

The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe. Votes: 0

Gratitude is twin sister to humility; Pride is foe to both. Votes: 0

Woman -a foe of friendship, an inescapable punishment, a necessary evil. Votes: 0

Complacency is easy...and it is a deadly foe of spiritual growth. Votes: 0

The treachery of a friend is worse than that of a foe. Votes: 0

If I rise up again against the foe, dare I stand alone? Votes: 0

The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason. Votes: 0

ashes or diamonds foe or friend we're all equal in the end Votes: 0

...sadness is a powerful foe, maybe harder to keep down than happiness... Votes: 0

You do not pursue potential conflict unless you hold power over your foe. Votes: 0

Anger kills both laughter and joy;What greater foe is there than anger? Votes: 0

Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist. Votes: 0

The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere. Votes: 0

Thou wine art the friend of the friendless, though a foe to all. Votes: 0

Fee fi foe fum, she's scratching on my back. Oh, here she comes. Votes: 0

There will be no fraternal strife while the foe is at the gate. Votes: 0

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse. Votes: 0

Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking. Votes: 0

Change is your friend not your foe, change is a brilliant opportunity to grow. Votes: 0

Four things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Votes: 0

This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe. Votes: 0

This is sweet to see your foe, perish and pay to justice all he owes. Votes: 0

ISIS and radical Islamic terrorism will face no more determined foe than I will be. Votes: 0

The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe! Votes: 0

A fop of fashion is the mercer's friend, the tailor's fool, and his own foe. Votes: 0

Time well employed is Satan's deadliest foe; it leaves no opening for the lurking fiend. Votes: 0

Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends. Votes: 0

A witty writer is like a porcupine; his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe. Votes: 0

Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe, and make themselves the common enemies of mankind. Votes: 0

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe. Votes: 0

Jack leaped over the gate, his sword aflame. To vanquish his foe and rescue his love. Votes: 0

It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe. Votes: 0

Insane!... Ask the tyrant who is his most dangerous foe, the sane man or the insane? Votes: 0

If thou wilt think evil of thy neighbour, soon shalt thou have him for thy foe. Votes: 0

Whoever has his foe at his mercy, and does not kill him, is his own enemy Votes: 0

A foe to God ne'er was true friend to man, Some sinister intent taints all he does. Votes: 0

Truth ever lovely - since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man. Votes: 0

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know. Votes: 0

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard. Votes: 0

Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed, we must destroy the Judeo-Christian religious tradition. Votes: 0

Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe. Votes: 0

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. Votes: 0

When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents. Votes: 0

What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe? Votes: 0

Wait not while your foe fits arrow to bowstring when you can send your own arrow into him. Votes: 0

As with ships, so with men; he who turns his back to his foe gives him an advantage. Votes: 0

It was one thing to go into battle with confidence, another to believe the foe so easily defeated. Votes: 0

Those who would wage war, should first eliminate all domestic enemies before proceeding to attack the external foe. Votes: 0

I'm a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water. Votes: 0

We cannot let external criticism, even if it's true, fortify our internal foe. That foe is strong enough already. Votes: 0

Bravery is not strength in the face of a far lesser foe. Bravery is the exact opposite of that. Votes: 0

Martin Luther King was a radical democrat, by which I mean someone who is a foe of wealth inequality. Votes: 0

Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe. Votes: 0

God dramatically slew one monstrous opponent and then threw us into the arena against a stronger and more vicious foe. Votes: 0

Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us. Votes: 0

Time, the foe of man's dominion, Wheels around in ceaseless flight, Scattering from his hoary pinion Shades of everlasting night. Votes: 0

The bold sympathize with the bold; and in great hearts, there is always a certain friendship for a gallant foe. Votes: 0

Whenever thy hand can reach it, tear out the foe's brain, for such an opportunity washes anger from the mind. Votes: 0

The earth yields up her stores, of every ill The instigators; iron, foe to man, And gold, than iron deadlier. Votes: 0

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them. Votes: 0

Where's the point in fighting and slaying if you can make a friend out of anybeast instead of a foe? Votes: 0

There is no occasion for our rejoicing at a foe's death, because our own life will also not last forever. Votes: 0

FACE A SINGLE FOE as if you are facing ten thousand enemies; face ten thousand enemies as a single foe. Votes: 0

Humans have reason to hate us dragons. If one dragon turns against humankind, he is a great and terrible foe. Votes: 0

The most convincing and enduring foe of the global financial economy ultimately is the global financial economy itself. - Ulrich Beck Votes: 0

Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk. Votes: 0

Great happiness, and mingled therefor with bitter sorrow. It is not by enthusiasm but by tactics that we defeat a foe. Votes: 0

Bring war material with you from home, but forage on the enemy... use the conquered foe to augment one's own strength. Votes: 0

Man invents the most inhuman armaments to assault others so like himself that uniforms are needed to distinguish between friend and foe. Votes: 0

American credibility in the war on terrorism depends on a strong stand against all terrorist acts, whether committed by foe or friend. Votes: 0

Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom. Votes: 0

... Virtue owns a more eternal foe Than Force or Fraud: old Custom, legal Crime, And bloody Faith the foulest birth of Time. Votes: 0

Persecution is an enemy the Church has met and mastered many times. Indifference could prove to be a far more dangerous foe. Votes: 0

Blessed, blessed is the Knower of the Lord, my True Guru, He has taught me to look upon friend and foe alike. Votes: 0

The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue. Votes: 0

Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than nineteen years of dealing with him across the desk. Votes: 0

The peril of this Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope. Votes: 0

Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or a foe to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to you even worse. Votes: 0

Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free. Votes: 0

Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, and he who saith thou shalt to me is my mortal foe! Votes: 0

Courage, ne'er by sorrow broken! Aid where tears of virtue flow; Faith to keep each promise spoken! Truth alike to friend and foe! Votes: 0

Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe. Votes: 0

Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open foes. The debt habit is the twin brother of poverty. Votes: 0

As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe. Votes: 0

It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I am a great foe of favoritism in public life, in private life, and even in the delicate relationship of an author to his works. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Doom very evenly! Do not doom one doom to the rich; another to the poor! Nor doom one doom to your friend; another to your foe! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In extreme situations, the entire universe becomes our foe; at such critical times, unity of mind and technique is essential - do not let your heart waver! Votes: 0

I lost the love of heaven above I spurned the lust of earth below I felt the sweets of fancied love And hell itself my only foe. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A Wolf eats sheep but now and then; Ten thousands are devour'd by men. An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretend friend is worse. Votes: 0

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... Votes: 0

Your son at five is your master, at ten your slave, at fifteen your double, and after that, your friend or foe, depending on his bringing up. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is remarkable that this people, though unarmed, dares attack an armed foe; the infantry defy the cavalry, and by their activity and courage generally prove victors. Votes: 0

They saw their injured country's woe; The flaming town, the wasted field; Then rushed to meet the insulting foe; They took the spear, - but left the shield. Votes: 0

My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me. Votes: 0

The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it; and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more. Votes: 0

To friends and eke to foes true kindness show; No kindly heart unkindly deeds will do; Harshness will alienate a bosom friend. And kindness reconcile a deadly foe. Votes: 0

The hostile multitudes are vast as spaceWhat chance is there that all should be subdued? Let but this angry mind be overthrownAnd every foe is then and there destroyed Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Now piercèd is her virgin zone; She feels the foe within it. She hears a broken amorous groan, The panting lover's fainting moan, Just in the happy minute. Votes: 0

Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing. Votes: 0

Who then will dare to say I'm weak or timid? No, they'll say I'm loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much like a hero destined for glory. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We have usually made our best purchases when apprehensions about some macro event were at a peak. Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist. Votes: 0

But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel. Votes: 0

This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For Freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle peace in Freedom's hallowed shade. Votes: 0

This truth: that he, the avatar of light, Supreme Master of the Jedi Order, the fiercest, most impeccable, most devastatingly powerful foe the darkness had ever known... just- didn't- have it. Votes: 0

Oh, Conscience! Conscience! man's most faithful friend, Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend; But if he will thy friendly checks forego, Thou art, oh! woe for me, his deadliest foe! Votes: 0

Never in these long years have we offered any other prayer but this: Lord, grant to our people peace at home, and grant and preserve to them peace from the foreign foe! Votes: 0

Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy. Votes: 0

His friends he loved. His direst earthly foe - Cats-I believe he did but feign to hate. My hand will miss the insinuated nose, Mine eyes the tail that wagged contempt at Fate. Votes: 0

I always knew there was power in the earth, but it must be much stronger than I imagined to resist such a relentless foe, day after day, night after night, year after year. Votes: 0

And if the worst, or best, happens, and Death comes for you in the snow, he comes disguised as Sleep, and you greet him rather as a welcome friend than a gruesome foe. Votes: 0

I'm trying to stay open to the idea that the Internet is not the evil foe of publishing but the handmaiden that will turn out to be a blessing for poets and writers. Votes: 0

I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, 'I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.' Votes: 0

The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his government deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and a friend to her foe Votes: 0

In times of war or crisis, power is easily stolen from the many by the few on a promise of security. The more elusive the or imaginary the foe, the better for manufacturing consent. Votes: 0

Hidden in the hollow Of His blessed hand, Never foe can follow, Never traitor stand; Not a surge of worry, Not a shade of care, Not a blast of hurry Touch the Spirit there. Votes: 0

I don't know the fitness that Donald Trump possesses to be commenting on other people's heroism. The most lethal foe that he is ever faced in his own life, I think was Rosie O'Donnell. Votes: 0

There live a great man named Joe / who was belittled by a loudmouth foe / While his rival would taunt and tease / Joe silently bore the stings / And then fought like gladiator in the ring Votes: 0

We are an indebted family going out for an expensive meal to celebrate getting approved foe a new credit card. It might feel good (at the time), but we're still simply delaying the inevitable. Votes: 0