Foe Quotes
351 quotes by 263 authors
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Reality, for all intents and purposes, is just life - the real world, pure and uncut, shot straight to the vein of our souls every…
— Corey Taylor
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Better that only a few Catholics should be left, staunch and sincere in their religion, than that they should, remaining many, desire as it were,…
— Peter Canisius
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Four things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
— Dorothy Parker
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If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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[T]he present Constitution is the standard to which we are to cling. Under its banners, bona fide must we combat our political foes - rejecting…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure you to believe me fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly…
— George Washington
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Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will…
— Akkineni Nagarjuna
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Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: Was it then my praise, and not myself was…
— James Russell Lowell
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We have to learn to deal with this situation and prepare for contact. Studying the behavior pattern of the phenomenon, I came to the conclusion…
— Michael Hesemann
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War is an unpredictable beast. Once unleashed, it runs like a rabid dog, ravening friend or foe alike. It can drag on for years, a…
— Kate Forsyth
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It was one thing to go into battle with confidence, another to believe the foe so easily defeated.
— Unknown Author
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First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more-no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count,…
— Michael Palin
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There was never a finer character - charitable and friendly to his foes and ever willing to help a youngster breaking in.
— Johnny Evers
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When a man walks in the fear of God he knows no fear, even if he were to be surrounded by wicked men. He has…
— Symeon the New Theologian
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Violence never settles anything right: apart from injuring your own soul, it injures the best cause. It lingers on long after the object of hate…
— Obafemi Awolowo
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When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.
— William Shakespeare
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By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on…
— Mercy Otis Warren
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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; nor…
— Thomas Jefferson
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One glance proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that these unions (railroad craft unions) are exceedingly useful to the corporations; and to the extent…
— Eugene V. Debs
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You're mistaken; men of sense often learn much from their enemies. Prudence is the best safeguard. This principle cannot be learnt from a friend: but…
— Aristophanes
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