Quotes About Foe

Only a conquerer bothers to honor a fallen foe.

Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

I wish my deadly foe no worse Than want of friends, and empty purse.

To beat your enemy, you must understand what your enemy wants.

There is nothing worse than an enemy with imagination.

... Virtue owns a more eternal foe Than Force or Fraud: old Custom, legal Crime, And bloody Faith the foulest birth of Time.

Like one who, on a lonely road, Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. —COLERIDGE'S ANCIENT MARINER

I began to understand the true nature of my adversary.

I'm hurt, okay, but in this game, pain is not the enemy. Failure is your enemy. Being too slow, missing an opening, miscalculating a pass, these things you control. Doing it right is your only friend, messing up is your foe, and the distance between them is all you are here to care about. The rest is landscape. Pain is the turf under your cleats. Pain is weather.

The self is a friend for him who masters himself by the Self; but for him who is not self-mastered, the self is the cruelest foe.

if you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. But if you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. Do you understand?" "I don't

Decius A style like this becomes a conqueror. Cato Decius, a style like this becomes a Roman. Decius What is a Roman, that is Caesar's foe? 40 Cato Greater than Caesar: he's a friend to virtue.

when you face many enemies, hurt the strongest first.

Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.

Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.

WHITLOCK 2 (to VRIL): In my humble opinion, Be off to oblivion! Their tears crocodilian Will dry here below. Your act is vaudevillian, Your faults are octillion! Your manners reptilian Would shock a Brazilian! Alas, but a Vrillian's a pitiful beau! A despicable, fickle, unprintable foe! LADY CADENCE: (still in the grip of VRIL) Mr. Cartwright, my most mannered acquaintances hail from Brazil. WHITLOCK 2: My apologies, Your Ladyship. It's a difficult rhyme.

Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.

L'angoisse de l'attente fait désirer la venue de l'ennemi.

rule of war – always try and get the enemy

Forget not about an existing incurable enemy.

Thou were the meekest man and the gentlest that ever ate in hall among ladies. And thou were the sternest knight to thy mortal foe that ever put spear in the rest.

I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.

Jack leaped over the gate, his sword aflame. To vanquish his foe and rescue his love.