1.
True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him.
Jonathan Edwards
2.
Make foes of bowmen if you must,
Never of penmen.
Thiruvalluvar
3.
He is wise that can make a friend of a foe.
John Ray
4.
There will be no fraternal strife while the foe is at the gate.
Menachem Begin
5.
The peril of this Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope.
Charles Evans Hughes
7.
Anger kills both laughter and joy;
What greater foe is there than anger?
Thiruvalluvar
8.
Are we friends? or are we foes? ... That kind of thing... You decide... For yourselves!!!
Eiichiro Oda
9.
Where's the point in fighting and slaying if you can make a friend out of anybeast instead of a foe?
Brian Jacques
10.
So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
11.
The treachery of a friend is worse than that of a foe.
Hannah Kent
12.
If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.
William Allingham
14.
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
Juvenal
15.
Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, and he who saith "thou shalt" to me is my mortal foe!
Anton Szandor LaVey
16.
Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.
Nicholas Breton
17.
It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.
J. R. R. Tolkien
18.
Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with.
Euripides
19.
I burned my candle at both ends, And now have neither foes nor friends.
Samuel Hoffenstein
20.
Observe with both friend and foe the ordinary rules of courtesy.
Alveda King
21.
The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst, 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!
William Shakespeare
22.
Against her foes Religion well defends Her sacred truths, but often fears her friends.
George Crabbe
23.
An ignorant friend is worse than a learned foe.
Brian Herbert
24.
I am a great foe of favoritism in public life, in private life, and even in the delicate relationship of an author to his works.
Joseph Conrad
25.
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
Aristophanes
27.
Foes of what's cooking see no worth behind it. Those that are looking for nothing will find it.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein
28.
The battle is over when the foe has fallen.
Ovid
29.
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
Petrarch
30.
Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
31.
It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.
Anne Bronte
32.
The person who builds a character makes foes.
Neil Young
35.
Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.
Ernest Hemingway
37.
Thou wine art the friend of the friendless, though a foe to all.
Herman Melville
38.
Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends.
Winston Churchill
39.
One would like to know, what were foes made for except to be used?
Herman Melville
40.
You do not pursue potential conflict unless you hold power over your foe.
Harvey Pekar
43.
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
John Dryden
44.
Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.
Warren Buffett