Quotes About Foe

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Time well employed is Satan's deadliest foe; it leaves no opening for the lurking fiend.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty." Vietnam became the case in point. In a letter to Diem in 1961, Kennedy wrote, "We are

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

There was nothing unusual in Britain finding herself at war with France. Six times in just over a century had the summons come and always against the same foe. At such moments the ordinary Englishman instinctively obeyed the precept Captain Nelson taught his midshipmen: to hate a Frenchman like the devil.

Shall not I Learn place and wisdom? Have I not learned this, Only so much to hate my enemy, As though he might again become my friend, And so much good to wish to do my friend, As knowing he may yet become my foe?

I pity him in his misery for all that he is my foe, because he is bound fast to a dread doom. I think of my own lot no less than his. For I see that we are phantoms, all we who live, or fleeting shadows.

Before mine eyes in opposition sitsGrim Death my son and foe.

What boots it at one gate to make defense,And at another to let in the foe?

But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men,For with his nails he'll dig them up again.

How do you oppose a foe who is wholly irrational and unpredictable—and yet who, out of animal energy and the accident of circumstance, has attained a most frightening power?

A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.

Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.

The mind is a friend or it is a foe.

If you are the heel, and if you are doing your job right, you are most hated.

When the world was flat on its back, what brought it back? American money and American energy, our humanitarianism and our sense of social responsibility for friend and foe alike.

Our foe is defeated and waiting to be utterly destroyed. His present flurry of fury is actually a sign he knows his time is short.

Time, the foe of man's dominion, Wheels around in ceaseless flight, Scattering from his hoary pinion Shades of everlasting night.

If there is a nuclear war, our foes will not be China or America or even each other. Our foe will be the earth herself. The very elements—the sky, the air, the land, the wind and water—will all turn against us. Their wrath will be terrible.

You can learn much about an enemy when you watch him win. We will watch and learn . . . and plan.

Fireheart," the voice murmured again. "Beware an enemy who seems to sleep." "What do you mean?" asked Fireheart, his chest tightening. "What enemy?" "Beware!

hacking was a fundamental, though mostly secret, tool of American statecraft, one deployed clandestinely against foe and friend alike

There is no little enemy.

There is no small enemy.