Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies; Nay, who but infants question in such wise, twas one of my most intimate enemies.
Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends.
Four things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Martin Luther King was a radical democrat, by which I mean someone who is a foe of wealth inequality.
Time well employed is Satan's deadliest foe; it leaves no opening for the lurking fiend.
This is sweet to see your foe, perish and pay to justice all he owes.
A foe to God ne'er was true friend to man, Some sinister intent taints all he does.
I wish my deadly foe no worse Than want of friends, and empty purse.
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 then and there destroyed
Those who would wage war, should first eliminate all domestic enemies before proceeding to attack the external foe.
In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
Sadness is a powerful foe, maybe harder to keep down than happiness.
The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue.
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.
And if the worst, or best, happens, and Death comes for you in the snow, he comes disguised as Sleep, and you greet him rather as a welcome friend than a gruesome foe.
It was one thing to go into battle with confidence, another to believe the foe so easily defeated.
Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, and he who saith "thou shalt" to me is my mortal foe!
Then if my friendships break and bend, There's little need to cry The while I know that every foe Is faithful till I die.
Bravery is not strength in the face of a far lesser foe. Bravery is the exact opposite of that.
Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed, we must destroy the Judeo-Christian religious tradition.
The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.
Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.
It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.
Where's the point in fighting and slaying if you can make a friend out of anybeast instead of a foe?
The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe!
Bring war material with you from home, but forage on the enemy... use the conquered foe to augment one's own strength.
You do not pursue potential conflict unless you hold power over your foe.
I wish my deadly foe, no worse than want of friends, and empty purse.
Fee fi foe fum, she's scratching on my back. Oh, here she comes.
Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.
When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.
American credibility in the war on terrorism depends on a strong stand against all terrorist acts, whether committed by foe or friend.
A witty writer is like a porcupine; his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe.
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Anger kills both laughter and joy;
What greater foe is there than anger?
Whenever thy hand can reach it, tear out the foe's brain, for such an opportunity washes anger from the mind.
Love is a funny thing, isn't it? The presence of it can bring you to save a foe, the absence of it can make you hurt your own flesh.
Man invents the most inhuman armaments to assault others so like himself that uniforms are needed to distinguish between friend and foe.
The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it; and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more.
In extreme situations, the entire universe becomes our foe; at such critical times, unity of mind and technique is essential - do not let your heart waver!
The peril of this Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope.
It is remarkable that this people, though unarmed, dares attack an armed foe; the infantry defy the cavalry, and by their activity and courage generally prove victors.
If you treat China like a foe, surely she will become one.
An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.
Pressure has always been more of a friend than a foe for me with songwriting.
Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.
Time, the foe of man's dominion,
Wheels around in ceaseless flight,
Scattering from his hoary pinion
Shades of everlasting night.
A fop of fashion is the mercer's friend, the tailor's fool, and his own foe.
I'm trying to stay open to the idea that the Internet is not the evil foe of publishing but the handmaiden that will turn out to be a blessing for poets and writers.
Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe, and make themselves the common enemies of mankind.
Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.
Truth ever lovely - since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man.
As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
We have usually made our best purchases when apprehensions about some macro event were at a peak. Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.
Great happiness, and mingled therefor with bitter sorrow. It is not by enthusiasm but by tactics that we defeat a foe.
Mitt Romney had it right in 2012 when he told President Barack Obama that Russia was 'without question our No. 1 geopolitical foe.'
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