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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Ernest Thompson Seton

  Dog, Cat, Snow

  Ernest Thompson Seton (2010). “The Arctic Prairies: A Canoe Journey”, p.64, BoD – Books on Demand

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• If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.

  Sakya Pandita

  Wise, Men, Enemy

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• Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.

  John Dryden

  Tails, Stubborn, Lions

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.22, Pearson Education

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• I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place.

  Donald Davis

  Dream, Fighting, Winning

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• 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.

  James Wolfe

  Confidence, Rocks, Enemy

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