Quotes of: Foes Keyword

A king should first gain the confidence of the foe and when he has gained it should spring on him like a wolf. The foe should be struck down so effectively that he may never agin raise his head. The foe should be slain by the arts of conciliation, ex...

Leadership Secrets From The Mahabharata

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Traditional

Even from a foe a man may learn wisdom.

Greek

An intelligent foe is better than a stupid friend.

Senegalese

If you are foe, we do not fear you. If you are friend, your foes will be taught the fear of us.

C.S. Lewis

Absence is a foe to love; away from the eyes, away from the heart.

Italian

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Iranian

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 ...

Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

To friend and foe alike I tell them how bad she is, so that I don't have to share her with anyone.

Spanish

Your five year old son is your instructor; at ten your slave; at fifteen your equal and after that either friend or foe.

Turkish

Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe.

Henry Norris Russell

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

Eiichiro Oda

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

Elbert Hubbard

A foolish man may be known by six things: Anger without cause, speech without profit, change without progress, inquiry without object, putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends.

Saudi Arabian

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

Aristophanes

Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.

Stella Benson

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

Otto Hermann Kahn

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

Thomas Jefferson

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

Joseph Conrad

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

William Wycherley