Words matter. These are the best Foe Quotes from famous people such as Edward Dahlberg, Henry Norris Russell, Henry David Thoreau, Aristophanes, F. H. Bradley, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
A strong foe is better than a weak friend.
Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe.
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.
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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.
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.
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.
Nobody will be allowed to use Pakistan soil for any form of aggression toward any friend or foe.
In the modern world, there’s a real genuine fear of loss of individuality, and I think the undead speak to that. I also think the idea of the dead coming back to life, and this unstoppable foe that just keeps coming and coming but rather slowly just chases you, is a real primal fear.
American credibility in the war on terrorism depends on a strong stand against all terrorist acts, whether committed by foe or friend.
His foe was folly and his weapon wit.
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.
I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don’t naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.
Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw.
During his presidency, Truman and the Republicans were locked in a series of furious assaults on each other that outraged him and made Truman an enduring foe of a party and its representatives, which he saw as on the wrong side of almost every domestic and foreign policy issue he considered important.
It is remarkable that this people, though unarmed, dares attack an armed foe; the infantry defy the cavalry, and by their activity and courage generally prove victors.
If you treat China like a foe, surely she will become one.
Recovery measures work better when they raise confidence – as Franklin D. Roosevelt understood. His fireside chats, and his inaugural address proclaiming he would fight the Great Depression with the same resolve he would muster against a foreign foe, were aimed at reassuring Americans.
Radical Islam has been the foe of Christendom for centuries.
Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.
I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
In our fervor to halt the potential spread of totalitarianism, what incredible precedent are we setting in Vietnam? By marching our legions through the countryside of foreign continents, burning homes, laying waste to the land, and indiscriminately killing friend and foe alike?
Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.
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.
He makes no friends who never made a foe.
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
In 2002, I went to play the Afcon in Mali, and I had the huge privilege to swap my shirt with Marc-Vivien Foe. May his soul rest in peace.
The ancient feud between cat and dog is not forgotten in the north, for the Lynx is the deadly foe of the Fox and habitually kills it when there is soft snow and scarcity of easier prey.
I felt like I was cheated out of my career in the UFC. In my mind and in my heart, I never lost to a foe. I never lost to an opponent. I lost to diverticulitis. That was my opponent that beat me. A lot of other people might have other thoughts about that.
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach.
True enough, Trump is a formidable foe, and systemic inequalities and disparities are worsening under this administration. But they existed long before that. And I want to lead, organize, and legislate to disrupt these disparate outcomes.
New nemeses keep racing fresh, but I also find challenge in going longer, with only the distance as foe. I run my first 50-mile race, journey across the Grand Canyon and back, circumnavigate Mount St. Helens.
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.
The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.
