Quotes of: Foes Keyword

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

Taggerung

I wish my deadly foe no worse Than want of friends, and empty purse.

Nicholas Breton

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.

Grantland Rice

He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done.

Charles Mackay

Trust not yourself; but your defects to know, Make use of ev'ry friend—and ev'ry foe.

An Essay on Criticism

Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

Nagarjuna

Not all of your foes will appear in their true form. You must learn to trust your instincts.

Amber Smoke

Only the king that has succeeded in subduing his senses is competent to resist his foes.

Leadership Secrets From The Mahabharata

Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free.

The Passion of Jesus Christ

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

The Art of War

Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.

Quintus Ennius

When migraines briefly became a campaign issue for me, it appeared that political foes were maybe playing the gender card.

Michele Bachmann

The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart.

Josiah Royce

My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.

Elizabeth I

Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.

John Podhoretz

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

Henry David Thoreau

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

Edgar Allan Poe

As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.

Friedrich Schiller

Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.

Bill Moyers

By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on a new and more respectable footing, both with regard to the operations of war or negotiations with foreign ...

Mercy Otis Warren