Foe Quotes

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.

Make foes of bowmen if you must, Never of penmen.

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

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

The peril of this Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope.

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

Anger kills both laughter and joy; What greater foe is there than anger?

Are we friends? or are we foes? ... That kind of thing... You decide... For yourselves!!!

Where's the point in fighting and slaying if you can make a friend out of anybeast instead of a foe?

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.

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

None but yourself who are your greatest foe.

If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.

Luxury is more deadly than any foe.

Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, and he who saith "thou shalt" to me is my mortal foe!

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.

Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with.

I burned my candle at both ends, And now have neither foes nor friends.

Against her foes Religion well defends Her sacred truths, but often fears her friends.

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

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

An ignorant friend is worse than a learned foe.

A conquered foe should be watched.

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.

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

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

Foes of what's cooking see no worth behind it. Those that are looking for nothing will find it.

The battle is over when the foe has fallen.

Reality is always the foe of famous names.

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

It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.

The person who builds a character makes foes.

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

Concealment is the foe of tranquility.

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.

Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.

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

Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends.

One would like to know, what were foes made for except to be used?

You do not pursue potential conflict unless you hold power over your foe.

Fire, fear, foes! Awake!

If thou wilt think evil of thy neighbour, soon shalt thou have him for thy foe.

As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.