Foe Quotes

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

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.

A conquered foe should be watched.

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

He wants worth who dares not praise a foe.

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.

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.

I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess.

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

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

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

Liberty's chief foe is theology.

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

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

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

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

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.

The young among us are, as a general thing, allied to the world. But few maintain a special warfare against the internal foe. But few have an earnest, anxious desire to know and do the will of God.

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

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.

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.

Concealment is the foe of tranquility.

Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One would like to know, what were foes made for except to be used?

Fire, fear, foes! Awake!

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.

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.

As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.

Sadness is a powerful foe, maybe harder to keep down than happiness.

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

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

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.

The person who builds a character makes foes.

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

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.

Reality is always the foe of famous names.

Foes of what's cooking see no worth behind it. Those that are looking for nothing will find it.

I will smile at friend and foe alike and make every effort to find, in him or her, a quality to praise, now that I realize the deepest yearning of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

The battle is over when the foe has fallen.

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

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?