Foe Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Radical Islam has been the foe of Christendom for centuries.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with.

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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.

I burned my candle at both ends, And now have neither foes nor friends.

Call no man a foe, but never love a stranger.

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

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

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

Observe with both friend and foe the ordinary rules of courtesy.

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

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.

Against her foes Religion well defends Her sacred truths, but often fears her friends.

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!

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.

Gratitude is twin sister to humility; Pride is foe to both.

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

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.

Death is not a foe, but an inevitable adventure.

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.

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.

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

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

The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst, 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!

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!

An ignorant friend is worse than a learned foe.

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

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.

The mind can be our best friend and advocate in getting what we want in life, or it can pull the brakes on and be a nasty little foe – the choice is yours – choose your attitude.

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

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

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

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

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.