Foe Quotes

• My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Love, Night, Light

  A Few Figs from Thistles "First Fig" l. 1 (1920)

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• 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

  Inspirational, Memorial Day, Freedom

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

  Aristophanes

  Inspirational, Friday, Learning

  "Birds". Comedy by Aristophanes, 414 BC.

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• Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Self Esteem, Enemy, Literature

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.407, Wordsworth Editions

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• 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

  Friendship, Anger, Wrath

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'A Poison Tree'

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• 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, Failure

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.13, Heron Dance Press

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• Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

  William Arthur Ward

  Change, Summer, Thankful

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• Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

  Dorothy Parker

  Love, Enemy, Scratches

  "Ballade of a Great Weariness" l. 8 (1926)

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

  Gautama Buddha

  Motivational, Positive, Inspiring

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• Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Generosity, Empowerment, Judgment

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• Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.

  Jean Paul

  Memories, Loss, Men

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

  George Santayana

  Men, Simplicity, Simple Life

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.204, 谷月社

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

  Alexander Pope

  Friendship, Trust, Knowledge

  Alexander Pope (1867). “Poetical Works, with Life of the Author and Notes”, p.36

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• 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

  Sports, Heart, Aquariums

  Morihei Ueshiba (2005). “The Art of Peace”, p.134, Shambhala Publications

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• Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

  Nicholas Breton

  Friends, Assurance, Knows

  Nicholas Breton (1879). “The Works in Verse and Prose of Nicholas Breton: Verse”

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• Call no man a foe, but never love a stranger.

  Stella Benson

  Love, Men, Stranger

  This Is the End (1917)

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• We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

  John F. Kennedy

  Success, Memorial Day, Freedom

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• 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

  Honesty, Pain, Integrity

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• A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Strong, Enemy, Weak

  Edward Dahlberg, Paul Vincent Carroll (1967). “The Edward Dahlberg Reader”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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

  Arlen Specter

  Strong, War, Terrorism

  Feinstein Introduces 'The 2005 Defend the Corporate Death Squads Act'" by Charlie Cray, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2005.

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• 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

  Jesus, Character, Two

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• An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Friendship, Presidential, Bitterness

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1792-1793”, p.292, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

  Thomas Huxley

  Political, Liberty, Politics

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.425, Cambridge University Press

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

  William Wycherley

  Revenge, Jealous, Sleep

  William Wycherley, Peter Dixon (1998). “Country Wife and Other Plays”, p.39, Oxford University Press, USA

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  You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

  Joseph Conrad

  Friendship, Men, Judging

  Lord Jim (1900) ch. 34

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