A Quote by Thomas Jefferson

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

Thomas Jefferson

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Foes Friend Injured

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Thomas Jefferson
American - President
April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826

Women always find their bitterest foes among their own sex.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle.

Soren Kierkegaard

Without one friend, above all foes, Britannia gives the world repose.

William Cowper

The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst, 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!

William Shakespeare

That's always a concern with a player when he's injured. There's a difference between injured and pain. If a guy's injured, he's injured. Pain is pain. Guys can play with pain. Guys can't play when they're injured.

Herman Edwards

A friend must not be injured, even in jest.

Publilius Syrus

Marry, sir, they praise me and make an ass of me. Now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass; so that by my foes, sir, I profit in the knowledge of myself, any by my friends I am abused; so that, conclusions to be as kisses, if your four negatives make your two affirmatives, why then, the worse for my friends, and the better for my foes.

William Shakespeare

Friends now fast sworn, Whose double bosoms seems to wear one heart, Whose hours, whose bed, whose meal and exercise Are still together, who twin, as 'twere, in love, Unseparable, shall within this hour, On a dissension of a doit, break out To bitterest enmity; so fellest foes, Whose passions and whose plots have broke their sleep To take the one the other, by some chance, Some trick not worth an egg, shall grow dear friends And interjoin their issues.

William Shakespeare

A friend gives hope when life is low, a friend is a place when you have nowhere to go, a friend is honest, a friend is true. A friend is precious a friend is u.

Unknown

No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.

Marcus Aurelius

It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.

Charles Caleb Colton

Everyone knows I like to fight injured. Half the fights I've taken, I've always been injured.

Robert Whittaker

Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men's minds are also injured by them.

Mencius

To friends and eke to foes true kindness show; No kindly heart unkindly deeds will do; Harshness will alienate a bosom friend. And kindness reconcile a deadly foe.