Top 100 Quotes About Foe
#2. 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
#3. 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.
John Quincy Adams
#4. Heroism is not fighting some big battle. It is not standing up to some fearsome foe ... Heroism is every day getting up with a mission to show this world that you are going to light it up with your spirit, to make the best out of yourself.
Cory Booker
#5. 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
#6. To not give your foe the respect that he is due gives him an opening in your defenses that he can exploit.
Terry Mancour
#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. God dramatically slew one monstrous opponent and then threw us into the arena against a stronger and more vicious foe.
K. Howard Joslin
#9. Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
Alexander Pope
#10. His love for me seemed to overflow my limits by its flood of wealth and service. But my necessity was more for giving than foe receiving; for love is a vagabond, who can make his flowers bloom in the wayside dust, better than in the crystal jars kept in the drawing-room.
Rabindranath Tagore
#11. If our inward griefs were written on our brows, how many who are envied now would be pitied. It would seem that they had their deadliest foe in their own breast, and their whole happiness would be reduced to mere seeming.
Pietro Metastasio
#13. Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. Folded hands may conceal a dagger --
Likewise a foe's tears.
Thiruvalluvar
#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. 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
#19. Fear is not only a leaden foe, but a liar as well. It was not as bad as I thought it would be, sitting there in a London department store on an ordinary Saturday.
Susan Meissner
#20. Soldiers in arms! Defenders of our soil!
Who from destruction save us; who from spoil
Protect the sons of peace, who traffic or who toil;
Would I could duly praise you, that each deed
Your foe's might honor, and your friends might read.
George Crabbe
#21. It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.
Zachary Taylor
#22. 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
#23. Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.
William Shakespeare
#24. By the time she lay down, the darkness was a friend not a foe.
Sarah McCoy
#26. Each one's no longer conscious
Of the high wall, or the rest:
Since the one enduring fortress,
Is the soldier's iron breast.
If you'd live unconquered,
Quickly arm, and fight the real foe:
Every wife an Amazon bred,
And every child a hero.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#27. these guys had been utterly defeated, not by mortal combat, but by a far more formidable foe - human bureaucracy.
R.E. Vance
#29. 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.
Ciaran Hinds
#30. Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
Juvenal
#31. The most convincing and enduring foe of the global financial economy ultimately is the global financial economy itself. - Ulrich Beck
Richard Swift
#32. In Reagan's world, we have to be geared up to fight a foe that could barely feed its own people. And meanwhile, our real troubles have to be mocked. Global warming. Nuclear proliferation. Corrupt governments supported by my tax dollars and everyone's complacency.
Robert Reed
#33. 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.
Peter Schiff
#34. To be selfless, you would give charity anonymously, walj softly on the earth, and look out for others-even total strangers-before you look out for yourself. For the Arab mind, the self is an obstacle, an impediment, in humanity's quest foe real progress.
Tahir Shah
#36. During the first quarter of the last century, seaside resorts became the fashion, even in those countries of Northern Europe within the minds of whose people the sea had hitherto held the role of the devil, the cold and voracious hereditary foe of humanity.
Isak Dinesen
#37. Superficial views of God and His holiness will produce superficial views of sin and atonement. God hates sin. It is His uncompromising foe. Sin is vile and detestable in the sight of God ... The sinner and God are at opposite poles of the moral universe.
Billy Graham
#38. Exhaustion has a way of parting the veils between men, not so much because the effort of censoring their words exceeds them, but because weariness is the foe of volatility. Oft times insults that would pierce the wakeful simply thud against the sleepless and fatigued.
R. Scott Bakker
#39. 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
#40. 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
#42. To take the measure of a man, watch not how he treats his friends, watch how he treats a conquered foe.
Aleksandr Voinov
#43. Do not let fear and anger conquer you. You must conquer them. If you don't, you give your enemy all power over you, and you will never overcome him. Anger uncontrolled flames up fast and hot, and even though you direct this fire at your foe, it is you it burns. Hamiel
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#44. 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.
Frank Miller
#45. Fee, fie, foe, fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman. Be he alive or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread." Ballimore shook her head. "Nonsense, dear. It's just Princess Cimorene and the King of the Enchanted Forest." "And neither of us is English," Cimorene added. The
Patricia C. Wrede
#46. Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
John Milton
#47. I am but a miserable sinner, but I have found, in my long life, that the cenobite has no foe worse than sadness.
Anatole France
#48. When we're most exhausted, we're expending more energy fighting the enemy than we are seeking God's presence. More than you seek to win, seek Christ! More than you seek to defeat the enemy, seek his foe! More than you seek victory, seek the Victor!
Beth Moore
#49. Gratitude is twin sister to humility; Pride is foe to both.
James E. Talmage
#50. Every man with a vote was considered a foe to woman suffrage unless he was prepared to be actively a friend.
Emmeline Pankhurst
#51. Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.
Quintus Ennius
#52. To set the cause above renown, To love the game beyond the prize, To honor, while you strike him down, The foe that comes with fearless eyes To count the life of battle good and dear the land that gave you birth, And dearer yet the brotherhood ...
Henry Newbolt
#53. Our guns do not strip the foe of life with surgical strokes. They take them in a holocaust.
Steven Pressfield
#54. But O the exceeding grace
Of highest God, that loves his creatures so,
And all his works with mercy doth embrace,
That blessed angels, he sends to and fro,
To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.
Edmund Spenser
#55. Man invents the most inhuman armaments to assault others so like himself that uniforms are needed to distinguish between friend and foe.
Thor Heyerdahl
#56. Katsa now sat calmly on the stomach of her vanquished foe. "He was handsome," said said.
Po moaned. "Was he beat-to-a-pulp handsome, or perhaps just push-down-a-flight-of-stairs handsome?"
"I would not push a seventy six year old man down a flight of stairs," said Katsa indignantly.
Kristin Cashore
#57. Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.
William Arthur Ward
#58. 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
#60. This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe.
Phyllis McGinley
#61. 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!
Morihei Ueshiba
#62. Whoever has his foe at his mercy, and does not kill him, is his own enemy
Saadi
#63. 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
#64. 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.
Giraldus Cambrensis
#65. Ashes or diamonds
foe or friend
we're all equal in the end
Roger Waters
#66. What was to fear from a foe that could be defeated by a few potholes and the heat of the sun?
Esther Spurrill Jones
#67. We are to vigorously and violently demolish all the fortifications of the foe, winning the battle and talking him captive for Christ. The Church is not to assume a defensive posture, but may take aggressive action to overcome evil by means of good.
Jay E. Adams
#68. 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.
Ernest Hemingway,
#69. This is sweet to see your foe, perish and pay to justice all he owes.
Euripides
#70. Oxigen [oxygen], as you well know, is my hero as well as my foe, and being not only strong but inexhaustible in strategies and full of tricks, I was obliged to call up all my forces to lay hold of him, and make the subtle Being my prisoner.
Christian Friedrich Schonbein
#71. When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.
William Shakespeare
#72. A foe to God ne'er was true friend to man, Some sinister intent taints all he does.
Edward Young
#73. Radical Islam has been the foe of Christendom for centuries.
Tom Tancredo
#74. 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
Shantideva
#75. Our enemies-my enemies-wouldn't win. The demon lizards had hurt me for the last time. Now, they had a new foe, and I would make sure they remembered my name when I destroyed them on the battlefield.
I would work hard.
I would excel.
I would become the perfect soldier.
Julie Kagawa
#76. Pride can be friend, ego can be foe ... depending on which one we choose, or not, to conquer.
T.F. Hodge
#79. A man's most useful friend and fearsome foe is the poet.
John Barth
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. Truth ever lovely - since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man.
Thomas Campbell
#83. 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
#84. Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
Alexander Pope
#85. By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction.
William Osler
#86. While yet we live, scarce one short hour perhaps,
Between us two let there be peace, both joining,
As joined in injuries, and enmity
Against a foe by doom express assigned us,
That cruel serpent.
John Milton
#87. It is in a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that leads him to evil ways.
Gautama Buddha
#88. The flag of our stately battles, not struggles of wrath and greed,
Its stripes were a holy lesson, its spangles a deathless creed:
'T was red with the blood of freemen and white with the fear of the foe;
And the stars that fight in their courses 'gainst tyrants its symbols know.
Julia Ward Howe
#89. 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!
Adolf Hitler
#90. Fraugh!" cried the sleeper, as though he suddenly understood all.
"Braugh!" he cried, not liking at all what he suddenly understood.
"Sup-foe!" he said, saying in no uncertain terms what he was going to do about it.
"Floof!" he cried.
Kurt Vonnegut
#91. 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
#92. 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.
Ronald Wright
#93. 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
#94. Time, the foe of man's dominion,
Wheels around in ceaseless flight,
Scattering from his hoary pinion
Shades of everlasting night.
Thomas Love Peacock
#95. To devote oneself to vigilance when the enemy is an imaginary one is idle, and to congratulate oneself for looking long and well for a foe that is not coming is foolish and sinful. My life has been a waste.
Robert Silverberg
#96. You are small. Your foe is big. But your God is bigger still.
Sarah Arthur
#97. The U.S. should never get involved where we have no clear national interest. We should not intervene militarily in a country like Syria, where we can't separate friend from foe and might end up arming the very people who hate us the most.
Rand Paul
#98. 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
#99. If by 'foe' you mean a brutal killer, then I suppose I'd fall into the 'friend' category," I replied cynically. "Although in your case, we may have to find a secret option number three.
M.A. George
#100. 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
