quotes about Foe
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It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.
-- Anne Bronte -
Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, and he who saith thou shalt to me is my mortal foe!
-- Anton Szandor LaVey -
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
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Where's the point in fighting and slaying if you can make a friend out of anybeast instead of a foe?
-- Brian JacquesSource : Brian Jacques, Peter Standley (2002). “Taggerung”
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The peril of this Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope.
-- Charles Evans HughesSource : Charles Evans Hughes (1910). “Conditions of Progress in Democratic Government”
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So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
A strong foe is better than a weak friend.
-- Edward Dahlberg -
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Are we friends? or are we foes? ... That kind of thing... You decide... For yourselves!!!
-- Eiichiro Oda -
Against her foes Religion well defends Her sacred truths, but often fears her friends.
-- George Crabbe -
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The treachery of a friend is worse than that of a foe.
-- Hannah KentSource : Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.122, Pan Macmillan
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None but yourself who are your greatest foe.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
He is wise that can make a friend of a foe.
-- John RaySource : John Ray (1818). “A compleat collection of English proverbs. To which is added, A collection of English words not generally used. Repr. verbatim from the ed. of 1768”, p.195
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There will be no fraternal strife while the foe is at the gate.
-- Menachem Begin -
It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.
-- Millard Fillmore -
Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.
-- Nicholas BretonSource : Nicholas Breton (1879). “The Works in Verse and Prose of Nicholas Breton: Verse”
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Foes of what's cooking see no worth behind it. Those that are looking for nothing will find it.
-- Piet Pieterszoon Hein -
I burned my candle at both ends, And now have neither foes nor friends.
-- Samuel HoffensteinSource : Samuel Hoffenstein (1954). “Complete Poetry”
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Make foes of bowmen if you must, Never of penmen.
-- Thiruvalluvar -