Top 74 Friend Or Foe Sayings
#1. 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.
Hasdai Ibn Shaprut
#3. Nobody will be allowed to use Pakistan soil for any form of aggression toward any friend or foe.
Asif Ali Zardari
#4. Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space. It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe. It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished.
Michael Strassfeld
#5. Do not look at anybody in terms of friend or foe, brother or cousin; do not fritter away your mental energies in thoughts of friendship or enemity. Seeking the Self everywhere, be amiable and equal-minded towards all, treating all alike.
Adi Shankara
#6. Only in the worst moment will you know: Friend or Foe!
Hanna Jansen
#7. What do you think of all this? Am I a friend or foe - or a little of each? Are the important things black and white, or maybe a little gray?
Svetlana Chmakova
#8. 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
#9. War is an unpredictable beast. Once unleashed, it runs like a rabid dog, ravening friend or foe alike. It can drag on for years, a slow attrition of nerve and fortitude, or be over in one brilliant flash, an extravagant conflagration of flame and blood and waste.
Kate Forsyth
#10. Every man with a vote was considered a foe to woman suffrage unless he was prepared to be actively a friend.
Emmeline Pankhurst
#11. And children know,
Instinctive taught, the friend and foe.
Walter Scott
#14. By the time she lay down, the darkness was a friend not a foe.
Sarah McCoy
#15. 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
#16. 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!
Alfred The Great
#17. 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
#18. Just so. And wonder, my friend, is the intellect's most feared foe. Its path is love, and love is the language of humility. The rational mind would stand over it with a bloodstained sword, and in the empty bleakness of its eyes you will see its triumph.
Steven Erikson
#19. 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.
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
#20. Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
Alexander Pope
#21. Some of my favorite moments from The Vampire Diaries were from season 3. I found the storyline between Stefan and Klaus to be extremely compelling. It was a friend/foe type friendship, rooted in depth that took us back to the 1920s.
Paul Wesley
#22. 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
Andrew Jackson
#23. In criticism, I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
Edgar Allan Poe
#24. When the world was flat on its back, what brought it back? American money and American energy, our humanitarianism and our sense of social responsibility for friend and foe alike.
Scott Eyman
#25. These were the companions who justified my principles, who gave me the strength to continue against any foe, real or imagined. These were the companions who fought the helplessness, the rage, and frustration.
These were the friends who gave me my life.
R.A. Salvatore
#26. Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.
Quintus Ennius
#27. Man invents the most inhuman armaments to assault others so like himself that uniforms are needed to distinguish between friend and foe.
Thor Heyerdahl
#28. Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.
William Arthur Ward
#29. Ashes or diamonds
foe or friend
we're all equal in the end
Roger Waters
#30. A foe to God ne'er was true friend to man, Some sinister intent taints all he does.
Edward Young
#31. Pride can be friend, ego can be foe ... depending on which one we choose, or not, to conquer.
T.F. Hodge
#33. A man's most useful friend and fearsome foe is the poet.
John Barth
#34. He that is thy friend indeed,
He will help thee in thy need:
If thou sorrow, he will weep;
If thou wake, he cannot sleep:
Thus of every grief in heart
He with thee doth bear a part.
These are certain signs to know
Faithful friend from flattering foe.
William Shakespeare
#35. Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life; Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign, Distils from thence the tears of wrath and strife, And so turns wine to water back again.
Richard Crashaw
#36. Truth ever lovely - since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man.
Thomas Campbell
#37. Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
Alexander Pope
#38. American credibility in the war on terrorism depends on a strong stand against all terrorist acts, whether committed by foe or friend.
Arlen Specter
#39. As Xenophon said, your obstacles are not rivers or mountains or other people; your obstacle is yourself. If you feel lost and confused, if you lose your sense of direction, if you cannot tell the difference between friend and foe, you have only
Robert Greene
#40. 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.
Euripides
#41. Let me not hurt, by any selfish deed Or thoughtless word, the heart of foe or friend; Nor would I pass, unseeing, worthy need, Or sin by silence when I should defend ... "The world is better that I lived to-day."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#42. I have argued with him on almost every subject in the world, and we have always been on opposite sides, without affectation or animosity ... It is necessary to disagree with him as much as I do, in order to admire him as I do; and I am proud of him as a foe even more than as a friend.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#44. When my father was vigorous and lucid, (my mother) regarded medicine as her wily ally in a lifelong campaign to keep old age, sickness, and death at bay. Now ally and foe exchanged masks. Medicine looked more like the enemy, and death the friend. (p. 184)
Katy Butler
#45. He is wise that can make a friend of a foe.
John Ray
#46. The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff; the ploughman, the plough, and the furrow, are of one stuff; and the stuff is such, and so much, that the variations of form are unimportant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#47. 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
#48. We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty
John F. Kennedy
#49. Seek to know thyself by means of thyself, keeping thy mind, intellect and senses, under control; for self is thy friend as it is also thy foe.
Anonymous
#50. An ignorant friend is worse than a learned foe.
Brian Herbert
#51. 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
#52. Your path is not my path. Should we meet at the crossroads and ye be a friend, tarry a while, drink some wine and let us laugh for a while. If ye be foe, continue on your merry way and may our paths never cross again.
Virginia Alison
#53. Peter Kropotkin ... was recognized by friend and foe as one of the greatest minds ... of the nineteenth century ... The lucidity and brilliance of his mind combined with his warm-heartednes s into the harmonious whole of a fascinating and gracious personality.
Emma Goldman
#54. Never back a woman you defend, never get quit of a friend on whom you depend, never make face to a foe till he's rife and never get stuck to another man's pfife.
James Joyce
#55. In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of his friend's evil deeds, he disapproves his friend's good deeds, he praises him in his presence, he speaks ill of him in his absence.
Gautama Buddha
#56. As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.
Friedrich Schiller
#57. What is interesting is that elephants can accurately and reliably figure out who is friend and who is foe. Compare this to us humans, who still walk down dark alleys at night, fall for Ponzi schemes, and buy lemons from used-car salesmen.
Jodi Picoult
#58. If you need to find out who is your friend
among many, stimulate a resolutive conflict.
Toba Beta
#60. 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
#62. Wouldst thou wisely, and with pleasure,
Pass the days of life's short measure,
From the slow one counsel take,
But a tool of him ne'er make;
Ne'er as friend the swift one know,
Nor the constant one as foe.
Friedrich Schiller
#63. Where's the point in fighting and slaying if you can make a friend out of anybeast instead of a foe?
Brian Jacques
#64. 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
#65. Though the Christian has no immunity from death and no claim to perpetual life on this planet, death is to him a friend rather than a foe, the beginning rather than the end, another step on the pathway to heaven rather than a leap into a dark unknown.
Billy Graham
#66. I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
Rand Paul
#67. 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
#68. Oh! Your poverty, ye men, and your sordidness of soul! As much as ye give to your friend, will I give even to my foe, and will not have become poorer thereby.
There is comradeship: may there be friendship!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#69. Four things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Dorothy Parker
#71. Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.
Nicholas Breton
#72. Change is your friend not your foe, change is a brilliant opportunity to grow.
Simon T. Bailey
#74. 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.
E. Stanley Jones
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