Quotes About Foe

The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his Government, deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and friend to her foe.

I'm a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water.

hubris was a crime in ancient Athens. To humiliate a defeated foe was a crime.

Beware of people that envy you.

Lay the proud usurpers low!Tyrants fall in every foe!Liberty's in every blow!Let us do or die!

El enemigo al que subestimas es el que te mata.

A crafty enemy," Caldin said heatedly before Reene had gone five paces, "will set a weak ambush you are meant to break through. Confident because you have dealt with the threat, your guard relaxed, you walk into the second, stronger ambush.

In Reagan's world, we have to be geared up to fight a foe that could barely feed its own people. And meanwhile, our real troubles have to be mocked. Global warming. Nuclear proliferation. Corrupt governments supported by my tax dollars and everyone's complacency.

He was a foe man worthy of her steel.

Every story needs a villain, she said grimly.

alone. "A military unit is a fine thing when it works," he said. "But it usually don't work. A solitary feat of arms is better, if the foe is worthy.

It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.

there was no greater natural advantage in life than having an enemy overestimate your faults, unless it was to have a friend underestimate your virtues.

It is easier to guard against one who professes hostility than to make head against an enemy who lurks under the guise of a friend.

Heresy is the foe of countenance

Hostis humani generis',

Know your enemy," my mother once told me. "Know them so you can be prepared to survive them.

I have played my fair share of bad guys, or at least the nemesis.

He had never fled from a single foe, and had the thought occurred to him he would have flushed with shame.

If these self-anointed leaders did not keep the people aroused with calls to preserve the Revolution, or to defend it from one imaginary foe after another, then the people might shake themselves awake from the trance they were in and begin to question the very men who had drenched their streets in blood and make France pariah among the civilized nations of the world.

The idea that the Allies were up against a lunatic was even more terrifying than the prospect of battling a rational, though supremely evil, foe. At least you could try to outsmart a rational man; you could guess his next move and try to counteract it. A madman, on the other hand, couldn't be relied upon to act in even his own best interest. "As

8. El enemigo

Complacency is easy...and it is a deadly foe of spiritual growth.

I loathe the telephone - vile, shrill-voiced intruder. i'd never answer it at all if I didn't feel I might be missing something: a million-pound offer from a film company or Robert Mitchum asking me out to lunch. I hate the element of uncertainty - you never know if it's going to be a friend or a foe on the line. I wish they'd invent a telephone which turned green like a breath-test when it was an enemy ringing, so I needn't answer it.