Quotes About Foe

We are to vigorously and violently demolish all the fortifications of the foe, winning the battle and talking him captive for Christ. The Church is not to assume a defensive posture, but may take aggressive action to overcome evil by means of good.

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.

Honor! One day you'll face a foe without your concept of honor, and that will be the end of Sturm Brightblade." They went back

Thou wine art the friend of the friendless, though a foe to all.

I always knew there was power in the earth, but it must be much stronger than I imagined to resist such a relentless foe, day after day, night after night, year after year.

The enemy will never attack you where you are strongest. … He will attack where you are weakest. If you do not know your weakest point, be certain, your enemy will

Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself.

But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.

Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.

And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy.

Making a famine where abundance lies,   Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel:

Of all the tasks ever set to a Navy none could have appeared more baffling than that of sheltering this enormous traffic and groping deep below the surface of the sea for the deadly elusive foe. It was in fact a game of blind man's buff in an unlimited space of three dimensions.

You know, I need hardly remind you, it is not numbers or strength that gives victory in war; but, heaven helping them, to one or other of two combatants it is given to dash with stouter hearts to meet the foe, and such onset, in nine cases out of ten, those others refuse to meet.

Let James rejoice with the Skuttle-Fish who foils his foe by the effusion of his ink.

The Olympian is a difficult foe to oppose.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

since the foe of the human race was vanquished not as by God but as by man, as Pope Leo says

Know the enemy and you will know how to kill him.

To defeat the enemy, we must know him first

For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed; And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still!

Know your enemy. Know yourself. Only then may you achieve victory.

Better the enemy you know than the enemy you don't.