(40 quotes found)
“When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.”
William Shakespeare
“The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe!”
Dorothy Parker
“Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“"Be he foe or friend, be he foul or clean, Brood of Morgoth, or Bright Vala, Elda or Maia or Aftercomer, Man yet unborn upon Middle-earth, Neither law, nor love, nor league of swords, dread, nor danger, not doom Itself shall defend him from Feanor and Feanor's kin whoso hideth or hordeth, or in hand taketh, finding keepeth, or afar casteth a Silmaril. This swear we all: Death we will deal him ere day's ending. Woe unto the world's end! Our words hesar thou, Eru Allfather! To the everlasting Darkness doom us if our deed faileth. On the holy mountian hear in witness and our vow remember Manwe and Varda!”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction”
William Osler
“I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.”
William Blake
“Better a wise foe than a foolish friend.”
Turkish Proverb
“An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.”
John Gay
“Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.”
William Arthur Ward
“Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.”
Oscar Wilde
