This is sweet to see your foe, perish and pay to justice…

Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with.

— Euripides

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…

— Euripides

The tree can teach you forbearance and tolerance. It offers shade to all, irrespective of age, sex or religion, nationality or status. It helps…

— Anonymous

The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

Under the Mountain dark and tall The King has come unto his hall! His foe is dead, the Worm of Dread, And ever so…

— Anonymous

I have not the particular shining bauble or feather in my cap for crowds to gaze at or kneel to, but I have power…

— Oliver Cromwell

“A good enemy can be better than the best of friend.”

— Simona Panova

THE POISON TREE I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe; I…

— William Blake

During his presidency, Truman and the Republicans were locked in a series of furious assaults on each other that outraged him and made Truman…

— Robert Dallek

If our inward griefs were written on our brows, how many who are envied now would be pitied. It would seem that they had…

— Pietro Metastasio

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our god alone. I enquire after no man's and trouble none with mine;…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

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

— Bill Vaughan

No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.

— William Jennings Bryan