Foe Quotes

351 quotes by 263 authors

This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe. — Phyllis McGinley
Unruly beings are as unlimited as space They cannot possibly all be overcome, But if I overcome thoughts of anger alone This will be equivalent… — Shantideva
Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity. — Mary Anne Radmacher
The hostile multitudes are vast as spaceWhat chance is there that all should be subdued? Let but this angry mind be overthrownAnd every foe is… — Shantideva
A conquered foe should be watched. — E. W. Howe
Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe. — Nicholas Breton
Fee fi foe fum, she's scratching on my back. Oh, here she comes. — Eazy-E
The whole history of Christianity proves that she has little indeed to fear from persecution as a foe, but much to fear from persecution as… — Thomas B. Macaulay
If anyone feels offended by my words, I would respond that I speak them with affection and with the best of intentions, quite apart from… — Pope Francis
Wait not while your foe fits arrow to bowstring when you can send your own arrow into him. — Babur
He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He… — Charles Caleb Colton
The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion… — B. H. Liddell Hart
The effort to improve the conditions of man, however, is not a task for the few. It is the task of all nations-acting alone, acting… — John F. Kennedy
For plague and pestilence, plunder and pollution, the hazards of nature and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation. The earth, the… — John F. Kennedy
Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled. — Benjamin Franklin
The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst, 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst! — William Shakespeare
None but yourself who are your greatest foe. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life; Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign, Distils from thence the tears of… — Richard Crashaw
Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of… — Robert Burns
Luxury is more deadly than any foe. — Juvenal

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