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Quotes About Foes

Keep you enemies in front of you.
~ Chris Matthews
The man that makes a character, makes foes.
~ Edward Young
The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Observe your enemies for they first find out your faults.
~ Antisthenes
He who has many friends has many foes flourishing under his own nose and they punch big blows on his face only during the phase of his life's lows.
~ Anuj Somany
The more a person has ill-gotten wealth, the more he has hidden foes called frenemies who are often disguised as friends, family relatives, fans and followers.
~ Anuj Somany
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war . . .
~ Aristophanes
It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls
~ Aristophanes
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, 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
That people with a different perspective hate our country and must be completely destroyed? That if you're not outraged, you're not paying attention? That kindness to your ideological foes is tantamount to weakness?
~ Arthur C. Brooks
When migraines briefly became a campaign issue for me, it appeared that political foes were maybe playing the gender card.
~ Michele Bachmann
You shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: you must be proud of your foes. Thus have I already taught.
~ Freidrich Neitzsche
Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Keep your friends close but your enemies closer. Having no friends, I must make do with enemies.
~ Margaret Atwood
That ruin is beautiful," he declared, and added: "But it is more than this, it is emblematic also.… Is it not in some respects an image of the human soul, once ruined by the fall, yet with gleams of beauty and energetic striving after strength, surrounded by dangers and watching, against its foes?
~ Shelby Foote
Misfortune often develops secret foes," Davis had said in a letter written earlier that week to Lee, "and oftener still makes men complain. It is comfortable to hold someone responsible for one's discomfort.
~ Shelby Foote
The issue embraces more than the fate of these United States. It presents to the whole family of man the question whether Ã¢â'¬Â¦ a government of the people, by the same people, can or cannot maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes.
~ Shelby Foote
He also chooses his enemies.
~ Paulo Coelho
You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as his friends. Lord Jim Joseph Conrad
~ John J. Gobbell
how quickly we forget the repellant aspects of personality in moments of crisis, which permit the illusion of unity against more dangerous foes.
~ John Keene
It was not the last time a well-meaning American Progressive would express the view that if only we made our good intentions plain, the opposition of our foes would melt away.
~ Arthur Herman
There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard.
~ Ted Knight
But the action film genre is gonna have to come up with some new bad guys.
~ Bruce Willis
He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done.
~ Charles Mackay