Foe Quotes

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. (John F. Kennedy)
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe. View quote
Aristophanes
The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his government deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and a friend to her foe. View quote
Andrew Jackson
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge. View quote
F. H. Bradley
I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. View quote
William Blake
A strong foe is better than a weak friend. View quote
Edward Dahlberg
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. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
Who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe. View quote
John Milton
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality it strikes at the rootof all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Call no man a foe, but never love a stranger. (Stella Benson)
This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For Freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle peace in Freedom's hallowed shade. View quote
John Quincy Adams
Radical Islam has been the foe of Christendom for centuries. View quote
Tom Tancredo
He makes no friends who never made a foe. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Nothing excites compassion, in friend and foe alike, as much as the sight of you ker-splonked on the Tarmac with your propeller buried six feet under. View quote
Boris Johnson
During the first quarter of the last century, seaside resorts became the fashion, even in those countries of Northern Europe within the minds of whose people the sea had hitherto held the role of the devil, the cold and voracious hereditary foe of humanity. View quote
Karen Blixen
Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies? Nay, who but infants question in such wise, 'T was one of my most intimate enemies. View quote
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Courage, ne'er by sorrow broken! Aid where tears of virtue flow; Faith to keep each promise spoken! Truth alike to friend and foe! View quote
Friedrich Schiller
Anger kills both laughter and joy; What greater foe is there than anger? View quote
Thiruvalluvar
The flag of our stately battles, not struggles of wrath and greed, Its stripes were a holy lesson, its spangles a deathless creed: 'T was red with the blood of freemen and white with the fear of the foe; And the stars that fight in their courses 'gainst tyrants its symbols know. View quote
Julia Ward Howe
Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, "I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right." (Tallulah Bankhead)
To devote oneself to vigilance when the enemy is an imaginary one is idle, and to congratulate oneself for looking long and well for a foe that is not coming is foolish and sinful. My life has been a waste. View quote
Robert Silverberg
A Wolf eats sheep but now and then; Ten thousands are devour'd by men. An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretend friend is worse. View quote
John Gay
There live a great man named Joe who was belittled by a loudmouth foe. While his rival would taunt and tease Joe silently bore the stings. And then fought like gladiator in the ring. View quote
Muhammad Ali
Prostrate on earth the bleeding warrior lies, And Isr'el's beauty on the mountains dies. How are the mighty fallen! Hush'd be my sorrow, gently fall my tears, Lest my sad tale should reach the alien's ears: Bid Fame be dumb, and tremble to proclaim In heathen Gath, or Ascalon, our shame Lest proud Philistia, lest our haughty foe, With impious scorn insult our solemn woe. View quote
William Somervile
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