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Quotes About Foe

Never burn a bridge unless your foe is on it, captain.
~ Phil Foglio
The enemy now began to appear from the mast-head.
~ John Byng
There is not half so much danger in the desperate sword of a known foe as in the smooth insinuations of a pretended friend.
~ R Chamberlain
Where I would fault President Bush the most was that, in the wake of 9/11, he motivated our military, but he didn't call the nation into a state of war. And he didn't explain that this would take though a communal effort against common foe.
~ Frank Miller
Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.
~ William Arthur Ward
The measure of a superhero is always his nemesis.
~ David Lyons
O fire, O soul Give us the spark of God-eternal, That friend to friend and friend to foe, One shall we stand before HIM. And the flame of Jatin, And the fire of Bhagath, And the love of the Mahatma in all, O, lift the flag high, Lift the flag high, This is the flag of the Revolution.
~ Raja Rao
There were billions of conscientious body cells oxidating away day and night like dumb animals at their complicated job of keeping him alive and healthy, and every one was a potential traitor and foe.
~ Joseph Heller
Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed Confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, And cries reproachful: "Was it then my praise, And not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.
~ James Russell Lowell
He had always found it easier to go up against an intelligent adversary. Stupid people were unpredictable.
~ Douglas Preston
Woe, woe for the doom that shall be--as in grasp of the foeman they fare! For a woe and a weeping it is, if the maiden inviolate flower Is plucked by the foe in his might, not culled in the bridal bower!
~ Aeschylus
Know thy enemy," a quote he lifted from Sun Tzu's The Art of War.
~ Alan Russell
Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
~ Sun Tzu
The history of England, who has always dealt most harshly with her vanquished foe in the few European wars in which she has taken part in modern times, gives us Germans an idea of the fate in store for us if defeated.
~ Bernhard von Bulow
It was like being in a struggle for survival against a murderous foe, except I was the one who was fighting for survival and I was also the murderer within.
~ Rachel Reiland
Never turn your back until you're sure your enemy is dead. Dimitri Belikov
~ Rachelle Mead
Know thy enemy… even thy dead enemy, for he may easily resuscitate.
~ Julian Barnes
It seems that man's greatest natural enemy is the target.
~ Demetri Martin
A foe to God ne'er was true friend to man, Some sinister intent taints all he does.
~ Edward Young
The earth yields up her stores, of every ill The instigators; iron, foe to man, And gold, than iron deadlier.
~ Ovid
Insane!... Ask the tyrant who is his most dangerous foe, the sane man or the insane?
~ Henry David Thoreau
As with ships, so with men; he who turns his back to his foe gives him an advantage.
~ Herman Melville
In other hand of the enemy will arise the fortune hero.
~ Lena Hussain
Do not underestimate the power of an enemy, no matter how great or small, to rise against you another day.
~ Attila the Hun