Foe Quotes - Page 9

• Make foes of bowmen if you must,
  Never of penmen.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Ifs

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• Luxury is more deadly than any foe.

  Juvenal

  Luxury, Enjoyment

  Juvenal (1940). “Juvenal and Persius”

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• Genius scorns the power of gold: it is wrong. Gold is the war-scythe on its chariot, which mows down the millions of its foes, and gives free passage to the sun-coursers with which it leaves those heavenly fields of light for the gross battlefields of earth.

  Ouida

  Money, War, Light

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.52, Ouida

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• Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.

  Robert Burns

  Farewell, Heart, Rivers

  Robert Burns, James Currie (1835). “The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings”, p.140

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• Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with.

  Euripides

  Wine, Terrible, Hard

  Euripides (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Euripides (Illustrated)”, p.924, Delphi Classics

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• Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life; Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign, Distils from thence the tears of wrath and strife, And so turns wine to water back again.

  Richard Crashaw

  Sweet, Art, Wine

  Richard Crashaw, Francis Quarles (1857). “The poetical works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems”, p.15

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• You talk about making this article cheaper by reducing its price in the market from 8 d. to 6 d. But suppose, in so doing, you have rendered your country weaker against a foreign foe; suppose you have demoralized thousands of your fellow-countrymen, and have sown discontent between one class of society and another, your article is tolerably dear, I take it, after all.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Country, Class, Doing You

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the table talk”

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• Prostrate on earth the bleeding warrior lies,
  And Isr'el's beauty on the mountains dies.
  How are the mighty fallen!
  Hush'd be my sorrow, gently fall my tears,
  Lest my sad tale should reach the alien's ears:
  Bid Fame be dumb, and tremble to proclaim
  In heathen Gath, or Ascalon, our shame
  Lest proud Philistia, lest our haughty foe,
  With impious scorn insult our solemn woe.

  William Somervile

  Lying, Fall, Warrior

  "The Lamentation of David over Saul and Jonathan". Poem by William Somervile,

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• There live a great man named Joe
  who was belittled by a loudmouth foe.
  While his rival would taunt and tease
  Joe silently bore the stings.
  And then fought like gladiator in the ring.

  Muhammad Ali

  Men, Rivals, Tease

  "The Soul of a Butterfly". Book by Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali, 2004.

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• O saving Victim, opening wide The gate of heaven to man below, Our foes press on from every side, Thine aid supply, Thy strength bestow.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Men, Heaven, Saving

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• The warriors that fought for their country, and bled, Have sunk to their rest; the damp earth is their bed; No stone tells the place where their ashes repose, Nor points out the spot from the graves of their foes. They died in their glory, surrounded by fame, And Victory's loud trump their death did proclaim; They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Country, Warrior, Names

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Horace Elisha Scudder (1922). “The Complete Poetical Works of Longfellow”

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• Without one friend, above all foes, Britannia gives the world repose.

  William Cowper

  Giving, World, England

  William Cowper (1855). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life, and Critical Notice of His Writings. Eight Engravings on Steel”, p.370

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• There is no occasion for our rejoicing at a foe's death, because our own life will also not last forever.

  Bill Vaughan

  Forever, Lasts, Rejoice

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• Hidden in the hollow Of His blessed hand, Never foe can follow, Never traitor stand; Not a surge of worry, Not a shade of care, Not a blast of hurry Touch the Spirit there.

  Frances Ridley Havergal

  Encouraging, Encouragement, Blessed

  Frances Ridley Havergal, Maria Vernon Graham Havergal, Frances Anna Shaw (1888). “Poetical Works”

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• No man can lead a public career really worth leading, no man can act with rugged independence in serious crises, nor strike at great abuses, nor afford to make powerful and unscrupulous foes, if he is himself vulnerable in his private character.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Powerful, Character, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• Innovation keeps me ahead of my competition. It means that my foes must adapt to me, not the other way around.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Mean, Mma, Competition

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• Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Inspirational, Inspiration, Preparation

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• Soul of Christ, sanctify me. Body of Christ, save me. Blood of Christ, inebriate me. Water from the side of Christ, wash me. Passion of Christ, strengthen me. O good Jesus, hear me. Within Thy wounds hide me. Permit me not to be separated from Thee. From the wicked foe defend me. At the hour of my death call me. And bid me come to Thee. That with Thy saints I may praise Thee For ever and ever. Amen.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Jesus, Passion, Blood

  Saint Ignatius (of Loyola) (1951). “The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius: A New Translation Based on Studies in the Language of the Autograph”

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• Doom very evenly! Do not doom one doom to the rich; another to the poor! Nor doom one doom to your friend; another to your foe!

  Alfred the Great

  Rich, Poor, Doom

  The Doom Book (Legal Code of Ælfred the Great), 893.

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• We cannot let external criticism, even if it's true, fortify our internal foe. That foe is strong enough already.

  Steven Pressfield

  Strong, Enough Already, Criticism

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• Oh, Conscience! Conscience! man's most faithful friend, Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend; But if he will thy friendly checks forego, Thou art, oh! woe for me, his deadliest foe!

  George Crabbe

  Art, Men, Faithful

  George Crabbe, Allan Cunningham (1855). “George Crabbe's Poetical Works: Preface to the Tales”, p.146

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• What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?

  John Milton

  War, Boots, Defence

  'Samson Agonistes' (1671) l. 558

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• Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.

  Emily Bronte

  Death, Sleep, Endurance

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.123, The Floating Press

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• I've been reading a bunch of stuff lately - like Joseph Campbell - that has made me realize that people in our cultural, especially in the liberal community, often go in search of a foe. It's like we always need a hill to climb up or something to push against, or we feel as if we're not working constructively in the world.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Reading, People, Community

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Amid the stirring and manifold activities of the age in which we live, to be neutral in the strife is to rank with the enemies of the Saviour. There is no greater foe to the spread of His cause in the world than the placid indifferentism which is too honorable to betray, while it is too careless or too cowardly to join Him.

  William Morley Punshon

  Enemy, Age, Causes

  William Morley Punshon, John Bunyan, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay, William Wilberforce (1881). “Biographical and Historical Lectures: Comprising: The Prophet of Horeb, John Bunyan; Macaulay; Wilberforce; The Huguenots”

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