(40 quotes found)
“It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe”
Zachary Taylor
“A courageous foe is better than a cowardly friend”
Proverb
“I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Fought all his battles o'er again; / And thrice he routed all his foes; and thrice he slew the slain.”
John Dryden
“I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe... Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger.”
Daniel Webster
“Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.”
Benjamin Franklin
“If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one:I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.”
William Allingham
“An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.”
Thomas Jefferson
“From forth the fatal loins of these two foesA pair of star-crossed lovers take their life.”
William Shakespeare
“It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.”
Buddha
