Foe Quotes - Page 16

• The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Pain, Night

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• Take your focus off how others see you. Cease being obsessed with the need to impress your friends and your foes. Keep your concern on the vision you see in the mirror. Don’t allow the approval of others to obstruct your view of you.

  Tavis Smiley

  Mirrors, Views, Approval Of Others

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• We have usually made our best purchases when apprehensions about some macro event were at a peak. Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.

  Warren Buffett

  Events, Made, Macro

  Letter To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., www.berkshirehathaway.com. March 7, 1995.

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• Every soul who comes to earth with a
  leg or two at birth must wrestle his
  opponents knowing its not what is, but
  what can be that measures worth. Make it hard, just make it possible and through
  pain, I wont complain. My spirit is unconquerable. Fearless I will face each
  foe for I know I am capable. I don't care whats probable, through blood sweat and tears I am unstoppable.

  Anthony Robles

  Pain, Blood, Sweat

  "Jay Leno Honors Anthony Robles". www.hollywoodreporter.com. 2011.

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• The ferocity we show our foes must be tempered by the lesson we hope to teach.

  Frank Herbert

  Lessons, Teach, Shows

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• Observe with both friend and foe the ordinary rules of courtesy.

  Alveda King

  Ordinary, Courtesy

  Source: saynsumthn.wordpress.com

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• All who contribute to the overthrow of religion, or to the ruin of kingdoms and commonwealths, all who are foes to letters and to the arts which confer honour and benefit on the human race (among whom I reckon the impious, the cruel, the ignorant, the indolent, the base and the worthless), are held in infamy and detestation.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, Race, Ignorant

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• You're mistaken; men of sense often learn much from their enemies. Prudence is the best safeguard. This principle cannot be learnt from a friend: but an enemy extorts it immediately. It is from their foes and not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war. And this lesson saves their children, their homes, and their properties.

  Aristophanes

  Wall, Children, War

  Aristophanes (1812). “Comedies of Aristophanes: Viz: The Clouds, Plutus, The Frogs, The Birds”, p.434

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• A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Kindness, Heart, Clothes

  'Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog'

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• Young people . . , God wants us to be victorious. He wants you to triumph over all of your foes. Stalwart and brave we must stand. God is at the helm. There is no reason for defeat.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  People, Bravery, Triumph

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• It is a tough choice. In war, people die. But when we refuse to confront the enemy, we will face the enemy in New York and Washington, as we did on 9-11. As for responsiblity, of course we stand by our decision to go to war on Iraq. President Kennedy said that friend and foe alike should know where America stands.

  George W. Bush

  War, People, Choices

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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

  Michele Bachmann

  Issues, Political, Campaigns

  Michele Bachmann (2011). “Core of Conviction: My Story”, p.85, Penguin

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• Henceforth we will tackle our enemies that come face to face with us and we will not be stabbed in from behind by internal foes. To this end, we will arm the allies and comrades of the broad masses without giving respite to reactionaries, and avenge the blood of our comrades double - and triple - fold.

  Mengistu Haile Mariam

  Blood, Giving, Enemy

  "Red Tears: War, Famine and Revolution in Ethiopia". Book by Dawit Wolde Giorgis, 1989.

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• One glance proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that these unions (railroad craft unions) are exceedingly useful to the corporations; and to the extent that they serve the economic and political purposes of the corporations, they are the foes – and not the friends – of the working class.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Class, Political, Doubt

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• Four be the things I am wiser to know:
  Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
  Four be the things I'd been better without:
  Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
  Three be the things I shall never attain:
  Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
  Three be the things I shall have till I die:
  Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.

  Dorothy Parker

  Hope, Laughter, Eye

  Dorothy Parker (1992). “The Sayings of Dorothy Parker”, Duckbacks

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• Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our god alone. I enquire after no man's and trouble none with mine; nor is it given to us in this life to know whether yours or mine, our friend's or our foe's, are exactly the right.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Accountability, Religion

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.388

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• Violence never settles anything right: apart from injuring your own soul, it injures the best cause. It lingers on long after the object of hate has disappeared from the scene to plague the lives of those who have employed it against their foes.

  Obafemi Awolowo

  Hate, Long, Soul

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• When a man walks in the fear of God he knows no fear, even if he were to be surrounded by wicked men. He has the fear of God within him and wears the invincible armor of faith. This makes him strong and able to take on anything, even things which seem difficult or impossible to most people. Such a man is like a giant surrounded by monkeys, or a roaring lion among dogs and foxes. He goes forward trusting in the Lord and the constancy of his will to strike and paralyze his foes. He wields the blazing club of the Word in wisdom.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Dog, Strong, Men

  Saint Symeon (the New Theologian), Paul McGuckin (1982). “The practical and theological chapters ; and, Three theological discourses”

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• There was never a finer character - charitable and friendly to his foes and ever willing to help a youngster breaking in.

  Johnny Evers

  Character, Friendly, Helping

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• First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more-no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.

  Michael Palin

  Naughty, Sight, Hands

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• In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of his friend's evil deeds, he disapproves his friend's good deeds, he praises him in his presence, he speaks ill of him in his absence.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Evil, Four

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• Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or a foe to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to you even worse.

  Gautama Buddha

  Mind, Enemy, Might

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• There's no disgrace in failing, lad, Though friends and foes deride; In fact, a failure's not so bad As never having tried.

  Ken Kesey

  Failure, Facts, Failing

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• Some of my favorite moments from The Vampire Diaries were from season 3. I found the storyline between Stefan and Klaus to be extremely compelling. It was a friend/foe type friendship, rooted in depth that took us back to the 1920s.

  Paul Wesley

  Vampire, Depth, Diaries

  Source: www.ew.com

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• Gifford Pinchot points out that in colonial and pioneer days the forest was a foe and an obstacle to the settler. It had to be cleared away... But [now] as a nation we have not yet come to have a proper respect for the forest and to regard it as an indispensable part of our resources-one which is easily destroyed but difficult to replace; one which confers great benefits while it endures, but whose disappearance is accompanied by a train of evil consequences not readily foreseen and positively irreparable.

  Richard E. Blackwelder

  Evil, Forests, Pioneers

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