Top 100 Quotes About Foes
#1. Enjoy the blessings Heaven bestows, Assist his friends, forgive his foes; Trust God, and keep his statutes still, Upright and firm, through good and ill; Thankful for all that God has given, Fixing his firmest hopes on heaven; Knowing that earthly joys decay, But hoping through the darkest day.
Charlotte Bronte
#2. Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war; and this lesson saves their children, their homes, and their properties.
Aristophanes
#3. The man that makes a character, makes foes.
Edward Young
#4. And for yourself, may the gods grant you your heart's desire, a husband and a home, and the blessing of a harmonious life. For nothing is greater or finer than this, when a man and woman live together with one hear and mind, bringing joy to their friends and grief to their foes.
Homer
#5. Peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment;
And then, if thou endure it well, God shall exalt thee on high; thou shalt triumph over all thy foes.
Thy friends do stand by thee ... '
-Jesus the Christ
Joseph Smith Jr.
#6. We don't yet know the state of the naturals. Are they friends or foes? None of us can say. We ought to anchor in the bay, as near as we might come to the shore, and bide our time. The naturals will show themselves, soon or late. They know we are here already, or else I'm a virgin girl.
Libbie Hawker
#7. Courage is not the absence of fear; true courage is manifest in bravely doing what has to be done in spite of fears or foes or the foolishness of the crowd or the taunts of the group. True courage is doing the right thing in spite of the odds or opposition or apprehension.
Emerson Roy West
#8. Although you may spend your life killing, you will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
Nagarjuna
#9. The reconciling grave swallows distinction first, that made us foes; there all lie down in peace together.
Thomas Southerne
#10. The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy.
Elizabeth I
#11. No human mind may measure the blessings conferred by the game of base ball on the soldiers of the Civil War. It had its earliest evolution when soldiers, North and South, were striving to forget their foes by cultivating, through this grand game, fraternal friendships with comrades in arms.
Albert Goodwill Spalding
#12. Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#13. 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.
Mercy Otis Warren
#14. Innovation keeps me ahead of my competition. It means that my foes must adapt to me, not the other way around.
Georges St-Pierre
#15. Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.
Robert Burns
#16. (As are all living things. All are caught in the river of power that is the Force, trapped by its currents. Only those who wield the dark side of the Force are capable of changing those currents; they are riverbreakers. They do not surrender to fate. They are its foes.) The
Chuck Wendig
#17. Nay! At least you are valiant. Beyond all whom I have met. And they lie who say that we of our part do not honour the valour of foes. See now! I offer you freedom.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#18. When cowards hide behind great walls, it is they who are defeated, Khaleesi," Ko Jhogo said. Her other bloodriders concurred. "Blood of my blood," said Rakharo, "when cowards hide and burn the food and fodder, great khals must seek for braver foes. This is known.
George R R Martin
#19. Israel is now sustaining a war for its own existence. A nation defending its citizens against terrorist bombings and a military and diplomatic onslaught by an array of Arab foes is practicing survival, not genocide.
Jack Schwartz
#20. There is no night as deep as this
Inevitable mind's abyss
Where I now dwell with foes alone
Olive Fraser
#21. A noble mind disdains to hide his head, And let his foes triumph in his overthrow.
Robert Greene
#22. Yet much remains To conquer still; peace hath her victories No less renowned then war, new foes arise Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains: Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves whose gospel is their maw.
John Milton
#23. 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
#24. Strong faith enables the servants of God to look with calm contempt upon their most haughty foes. We know that our enemies are attempting impossibilities.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#25. I have not the particular shining bauble or feather in my cap for crowds to gaze at or kneel to, but I have power and resolution for foes to tremble at.
Oliver Cromwell
#26. Let us feel love, in the sight of our foes.
Let our hearts melt, of the sight of hungry ones.
Let us sing the music of forgiveness,
the melody of love.
M.Padua
#27. Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.
Jean Paul
#28. Bereft of vision to guide the city's citizens forward, he could only draw them inward and backward, to encourage them to fight over imagined foes and manufactured hurt.
I.M. Savage
#29. 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
#30. Take your focus off how others see you. Cease being obsessed with the need to impress your friends and your foes. Keep your concern on the vision you see in the mirror. Don't allow the approval of others to obstruct your view of you.
Tavis Smiley
#31. To draw around the whole nation the strength of the General Government
as a barrier against foreign foes ... is [one of the] functions of the General Government on which [our citizens] have a right to call.
Thomas Jefferson
#32. On the subject of "personal beauty," for example, Lincoln merrily confided he felt fortunate that "'the women couldn't vote,' otherwise the monstrous portraits of him which had been circulated during the canvas by friends as well as by foes would surely defeat him.
Harold Holzer
#33. He stayed nearly an hour. Clare would have kissed him again just for the fact he'd given her kids such a great time. He'd never seemed bored or annoyed with a conversation dominated by superheroes, their powers, their partners, their foes.
Nora Roberts
#34. In male-driven [films], the protagonist is not the person who's necessarily in harms way. There's a sense that they're going to figure out how to persevere and take on the obstacles and foes and you don't necessarily know if that's going to happen with the subjects of love stories.
Todd Haynes
#35. 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
#36. I have seen the faces of our enemies!
I have looked into the eyes of our foes!
Do you know what I have seen?
[ ... ]
Faces and eyes, gentlemen. Faces and eyes.
Derek Landy
#37. Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation.
Vanna Bonta
#38. 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
#39. The ferocity we show our foes must be tempered by the lesson we hope to teach.
Frank Herbert
#40. Thou at the sight
Pleased, out of Heaven shalt look down and smile,
While by thee raised I ruin all my foes,
Death last, and with his carcass glut the grave.
John Milton
#41. There's been a deliberate and systematic effort to convey to countries around the world, friends and foes, that if they cross the United States there's a price to pay.
Sandy Berger
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. The Captain, so close as he was, didn't warrant their attention. Even a fly on a horse's hindquarters gets a tail whip. And that is the thick of it. We are less than flies to these foul foes.
Greever Williams
#45. 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
#46. If I work on a certain move constantly, then finally, it doesn't seem risky to me. The idea is that the move stays dangerous and it looks dangerous to my foes, but it is not to me. Hard work has made it easy.
Nadia Comaneci
#47. The moth unwitting rushes on the fire, Through ignorance the fish devours the bait, We men know well the foes that lie in wait, Yet cannot shun the meshes of desire.
Bhartrhari
#48. I will journey to the black heart of a corrupt empire to root out my foes. But Rome wasn't built in a day and it won't be restored by a lone Assassin. I am Ezio Auditore Da Firenze. This is my Brotherhood.
Oliver Bowden
#49. 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
#50. If you want to know a king, see how he treats his defeated foes. All are gracious to their equals; one in a thousand is gracious to an enemy he has conquered.
Gerald Morris
#51. 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
#52. In selfish men caution is as secure an armour for their foes as for themselves.
Bram Stoker
#53. Ahab's above the common; Ahab's been in colleges, as well as 'mong the cannibals; been used to deeper wonders than the waves; fixed his fiery lance in mightier, stranger foes than whales.
Herman Melville
#54. Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends; He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
Charles Churchill
#55. He likes to humble our foes by making them seem ridiculous. As he said to me the other day, 'Kill a man, and you cede him honor in the eyes of the gods. Laugh at him and you shame him'.
Raymond E. Feist
#56. Upon his tomb the Elvenking then laid Orcrist, the elvish sword that had been taken from Thorin in captivity. It is said in songs that it gleamed ever in the dark if foes approached, and the fortress of the dwarves could not be taken by surprise.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#57. There was never a finer character - charitable and friendly to his foes and ever willing to help a youngster breaking in.
Johnny Evers
#58. They were savages, yet they were ghosts. The two most terrible and dreaded foes of civilised experience seemed combined at once in them.
Grant Allen
#60. We are seekers of the truth, but we do not embody the truth. And in humility, we should recognize that the same can be said about our most ardent foes.
John C. Danforth
#61. The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.
Thomas Huxley
#62. My aversion to them ... springs from the perniciousness of that sect to society-I hate Papists, as a man, not as a Protestant. If Papists were only enemies to the religion of other men, I should overlook their errors. As they are foes to liberty, I cannot forgive them.
Horace Walpole
#63. Among the old Norse, it was the custom for certain warriors to dress in the skins of the beasts they had slain, and thus to give themselves an air of ferocity, calculated to strike terror into the hearts of their foes.
Sabine Baring-Gould
#65. Without one friend, above all foes, Britannia gives the world repose.
William Cowper
#66. It's our own small voice within that is our oppressor; it says we are not worthy and not powerful enough. Our limited beliefs are the real foes we need to fight and conquer.
Yehuda Berg
#67. A man who is truthful and does not mean ill even to his adversary will be slow to believe charges even against his foes. He will, however, try to understand the viewpoints of his opponents and will always keep an open mind and seek every opportunity of serving his opponents.
Mahatma Gandhi
#68. 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
#70. 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
#73. The person who builds a character makes foes.
Neil Young
#74. Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
William Wycherley
#75. True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him.
Jonathan Edwards
#76. You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
Joseph Conrad
#77. 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
#78. No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.
William Jennings Bryan
#79. 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
#80. Marry, sir, they praise me and make an ass of me, now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass. So that by my foes, sir I profit in the knowledge of myself, and by my friends, I am abused. So
William Shakespeare
#81. To ruminate upon evils, to make critical notes upon injuries, and be too acute in their apprehensions, is to add unto our own tortures, to feather the arrows of our enemies, to lash ourselves with the scorpions of our foes, and to resolve to sleep no more.
Thomas Browne
#82. Despite the raging wrath of our foes the holy souls of your brothers and sisters will remain alive. These evil ones scheme to blot out their names from the face of the earth; but a man cannot destroy letters. For words have wings; they mount up to the heavenly heights and they endure for eternity.
Neil Gaiman
#83. Prayer is the condition by which all foes are to be overcome and all the inheritance is to be possessed.
E. M. Bounds
#85. He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons which are strong.
Charles Caleb Colton
#86. Our lives were short, no more than a blink to the foes we fought, but we were fertile. Fathers fought our battles, but it was our mothers who won the war.
Brian Staveley
#87. The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion in war.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#88. Now it hits me. This is it. This is the end. Martial tradition says a soldier who dies well dances among the stars, battling foes for all eternity. Is that what awaits me? Or will I slip into endless darkness, unbroken and quiet?
Sabaa Tahir
#89. I have two foes in the world, twins inextricably interrelated -- the hunger of the hungry and the glut of the glutted!
Marina Tsvetaeva
#90. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life,
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Doth with their death bury their parents' strife ...
O, I am fortune's fool! ...
Then I defy you, stars.
William Shakespeare
#91. Not all of your foes will appear in their true form. You must learn to trust your instincts.
Kristin Cast
#92. One of the greatest foes of the Christian is religious complacency.. Orthodox Christianity has fallen to its present low estate from lack of spiritual desire. Among the many who profess the Christian faith, scarcely one in a thousand reveals any passionate thirst for God.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#93. Better that only a few Catholics should be left, staunch and sincere in their religion, than that they should, remaining many, desire as it were, to be in collusion with the Church's enemies and in conformity with the open foes of our faith.
Peter Canisius
#94. It is not the foes who curse you to your face that you must fear, but those who smile when you are looking and sharpen their knives when you turn your back.
George R R Martin
#95. Of months, he began encouraging people to talk to me, even foes and former girlfriends. Nor did he try to put anything off-limits. "I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was twenty-three and the way I handled that," he said. "But I don't have any
Walter Isaacson
#96. The skin of frozen snow crunched satisfyingly beneath my boots as I smashed each step into the ground just as I planned to smash my foes.
Kate Elliott
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. Let us have love and more love; a love that melts all opposition, a love that conquers all foes, a love that sweeps away all barriers, a love that aboundeth in charity, a large-heartedness, tolerance, forgiveness and noble striving, a love that triumphs over all obstacles.
Abdu'l- Baha
#100. When we our betters see bearing our woes,
We scarcely think our miseries our foes.
William Shakespeare
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