Top 330 Foe Quotes & Sayings

The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.

The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason.

Liberty's chief foe is theology.

I am a foe to tyrants, and my country's friend.

None but yourself who are your greatest foe.

THE POISON TREE 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. And I water'd it in fears, Night & morning with my tears; And I sunned it with my smiles And with soft deceitful wiles. And it grew both day and night, Till it bore an apple bright; And my foe beheld it shine, And he knew that it was mine, And into my garden stole When the night had veil'd the pole: In the morning glad I see My foe outstretch'd beneath the tree.

He makes no friend who never made a foe.

A conquered foe should be watched.

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.

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

Concealment is the foe of tranquility.

As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

And children know, Instinctive taught, the friend and foe.

A friend to honesty and a foe to crime

Luxury is more deadly than any foe.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.

Death is not a foe, but an inevitable adventure.

ashes or diamonds foe or friend we're all equal in the end

Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw.

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

To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, gives in your weakness strength unto your foe.

There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with the world. But given a story to enact that puts them at odds with the world, as yours does, they will live at odds with the world. Given a story to enact in which they are the lords of the world, they will ACT like lords of the world. And, given a story to enact in which the world is a foe to be conquered, they will conquer it like a foe, and one day, inevitably, their foe will lie bleeding to death at their feet, as the world is now.

Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or a foe to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to you even worse.

An ignorant friend is worse than a learned foe.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration.

Observe with both friend and foe the ordinary rules of courtesy.

He is wise that can make a friend of a foe.

He makes no friends who never made a foe.

There will be no fraternal strife while the foe is at the gate.

He wants worth who dares not praise a foe.

Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with.

It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.

This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe.

What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?

Call no man a foe, but never love a stranger.

Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.

Gratitude is twin sister to humility; Pride is foe to both.

Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.

Woman -a foe of friendship, an inescapable punishment, a necessary evil.

Dear is my friend--yet from my foe, as from my friend, comes good: My friend shows what I can do, and my foe what I should.

We are at war - undeclared and of such a subtle nature that few have noticed - but war nevertheless. It is a cyberwar on many fronts, in which it is difficult to identify who is friend and who is foe. I will predict now, as unintelligible as it may seem, that Anonymous will turn out to be more friend than foe.

To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, Gives, in your weakness, strength unto your foe, And so your follies fight against yourself. Fear, and be slain--so worse can come to fight; And fight and die is death destroying death, Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.

The treachery of a friend is worse than that of a foe.

Complacency is easy...and it is a deadly foe of spiritual growth.

Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe.

I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess.

The laws allow arms to be taken against an armed foe.

Radical Islam has been the foe of Christendom for centuries.

Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.

You never forget your greatest foe.

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

We cannot let external criticism, even if it's true, fortify our internal foe. That foe is strong enough already.

The battle is over when the foe has fallen.

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

Reality is always the foe of famous names.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.