Foe Quotes

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
John F. Kennedy

Success, Friend, Liberty

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Buddha

Mind, Enemy, Evil

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
William Shakespeare

Yourself, Hot, Heat

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

Music, Fear, Times

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
John F. Kennedy

Peace, Time, War

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

Nothing, Friend, Purpose

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
Ernest Hemingway

I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.
William Blake

Angry, End, Friend

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.
William Arthur Ward

Change, Sunshine, Friend

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.
Bertrand Russell

Pain, Heart, Start

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
Alexander Pope

Trust, Yourself, Friend

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
Douglas MacArthur

Men, War, Friend

Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That's part of the normal diplomatic relations.
Colin Powell

Time, Enemy, Opinion

He makes no friends who never made a foe.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.
George Santayana

Spirit, Simplicity

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!
Morihei Ueshiba

Mind, Heart, Universe

We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
Oswald Chambers

God, Enemy, Souls

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.
Edward Dahlberg

Strong, Friend, Weak

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
Aristophanes

Wisdom, May, Learn

We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.
William E. Gladstone

Stupidity, Friend, Her

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

Death, Hate, Wish

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

Friend, Sun, Both

Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
John Milton

Half, Force, Overcome

American credibility in the war on terrorism depends on a strong stand against all terrorist acts, whether committed by foe or friend.
Arlen Specter

War, Strong, Friend

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.
John Gay

Friend, May, Open

A friend to honesty and a foe to crime.
Allan Pinkerton

Friend, Honesty, Crime

Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ.
E. Stanley Jones

Power, Character, Friend

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

Him, Play, Teach

Where I would fault President Bush the most was that, in the wake of 9/11, he motivated our military, but he didn't call the nation into a state of war. And he didn't explain that this would take though a communal effort against common foe.
Frank Miller

War, Nation, Against

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
F. H. Bradley

Virtue, Complete, Deadliest

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