Foe Quotes

Fire, fear, foes! Awake!

— Anonymous

Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.

— William Shakespeare

Concealment is the foe of tranquility.

— Fanny Burney

Liberty's chief foe is theology.

— Charles Bradlaugh

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

— Dorothy Parker

None but yourself who are your greatest foe.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

— Edward Dahlberg

Reality is always the foe of famous names.

— Petrarch

Expose foes wit my hocus pocus flows, they froze now suckas idolize my chosen blows

— Tupac Shakur

Make foes of bowmen if you must, Never of penmen.

— Anonymous

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

— Aristophanes

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

— Carlos Wilcox

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Herman Melville

A noble mind disdains to hide his head, And let his foes triumph in his overthrow.

— Robert Greene

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

— Sun Tzu

But evil fortune has decreed, (The foe of mice as well as men) The royal mouse at last should bleed, Should fall…

— Michael Bruce

Though troubles assail And dangers affright, Though friends should all fail And foes all unite; Yet one thing secures us, Whatever betide,…

— John Newton

The world is made up, for the most part, of fools and knaves, both irreconcileable foes to truth.

— George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham

I am a great foe of favoritism in public life, in private life, and even in the delicate relationship of an author…

— Joseph Conrad

The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

FACE A SINGLE FOE as if you are facing ten thousand enemies; face ten thousand enemies as a single foe.

— Morihei Ueshiba

Nothing excites compassion, in friend and foe alike, as much as the sight of you ker-splonked on the Tarmac with your propeller…

— Boris Johnson

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

These were the companions who justified my principles, who gave me the strength to continue against any foe, real or imagined. These…

— R. A. Salvatore

I have argued with him on almost every subject in the world, and we have always been on opposite sides, without affectation…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

To set the cause above renown, To love the game beyond the prize, To honor, while you strike him down, The foe…

— Henry Newbolt

“In fact, if you are faced with the prospect of running across an open field in which lightning bolts are going to…

— Anonymous

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…

— Todd Haynes

To ruminate upon evils, to make critical notes upon injuries, and be too acute in their apprehensions, is to add unto our…

— Thomas Browne

Yelling a battle cry—more to motivate himself than frighten his foes—Lukel grabbed the table leg and swung it at a soldier. The…

— Brandon Sanderson

Evil, which is our companion all our days, is not to be treated as a foe. It is wrong to cocker vice,…

— Edward Dahlberg

Friends now fast sworn, Whose double bosoms seems to wear one heart, Whose hours, whose bed, whose meal and exercise Are still…

— William Shakespeare

Every day His servants are dying modestly and peacefully--not a word of victory on their lips; but Christ's deep triumph in their…

— Frederick William Robertson

Oh! Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not…

— Anonymous

When Freedom from her mountain-height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars…

— Joseph Rodman Drake

Home they brought her warrior dead: She nor swooned, nor uttered cry: All her maidens, watching, said, 'She must weep or she…

— Colleen Houck

I want you to pledge to yourselves in this convention to stand as one solid army against the foes of human labor.…

— Mother Jones

If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are…

— Ernest K. Gann

The effort to improve the conditions of man, however, is not a task for the few. It is the task of all…

— John F. Kennedy