Foe Quotes

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

A friend to honesty and a foe to crime.

I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

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

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

His foe was folly and his weapon wit.

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

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

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!

Radical Islam has been the foe of Christendom for centuries.

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw.

The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.

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.

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.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

The history of England, who has always dealt most harshly with her vanquished foe in the few European wars in which she has taken part in modern times, gives us Germans an idea of the fate in store for us if defeated.

Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

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

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.

As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.

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.

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

He makes no friends who never made a foe.

Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.