Foes Quotes

“In selfish men caution is as secure an armour for their foes as for themselves.”

“In selfish men caution is as secure an armour for their foes as for themselves.”

“FOES will be the first to scream out all your FAILURES but what they don't know is that they're also unconsciously whispering your SUCCESSES & ACCOMPLISHMENTS... Simply shut out the screams and listen carefully to the WHISPERS because that's all that counts! Sit back, relax and let your SUCCESS make all the noise!”

“Dreams so often become nightmares. Family can so easily become foes. And people are always more stupid than you give them credit for.”

“Under the Mountain dark and tallThe King has come unto his hall!His foe is dead,the Worm of Dread,And ever so his foes shall fall.The sword is sharp, the spear is long,The arrow swift, the Gate is strong;The heart is bold that looks on gold;The dwarves no more shall suffer wrong.The dwarves of yore made mighty spells,While hammers fells like ringing bellsIn places deep, where dark things sleep,In hollow halls beneath the fells.-from The Hobbit (Dwarves Battle Song)”

“Our critics make us strong!Our fears make us bold!Our haters make us wise!Our foes make us active!Our obstacles make us passionate!Our losses make us wealthy!Our disappointments make us appointed!Our unseen treasures give us aknown peace!Whatever is designed against us will work for us!”

“If we lived for ever, what you say would be true. But we have to die, we have to leave life presently. Injustice and greed would be the real thing if we lived for ever. As it is, we must hold to other things, because Death is coming. I love death - not morbidly, but because He explains. He shows me the emptiness of Money. Death and Money are the eternal foes. Not Death and Life. . . . Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him. Behind the coffins and the skeletons that stay the vulgar mind lies something so immense that all that is great in us responds to it. Men of the world may recoil from the charnel-house that they will one day enter, but Love knows better. Death is his foe, but his peer, and in their age-long struggle the thews of Love have been strengthened, and his vision cleared, until there is no one who can stand against him.”

“Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.”

“I am a leg of the death tripod that will destroy our foes.”

“Make foes of bowmen if you must,Never of penmen.”

“Only the king that has succeeded in subduing his senses is competent to resist his foes.”