God's friend, priest's foe. [ German Proverb ]

Loudness is a foe to melody. [ Proverb ]

The sandal-tree perfumes when riven
The axe that laid it low:
Let man who hopes to be forgiven
Forgive and bless his foe. [ Sadi ]

The coward wretch whose hand and heart
Can bear to torture aught below.
Is ever first to quail and start
From slightest pain or equal foe. [ Eliza Cook ]

Alike reserved to blame, or to commend,
A timorous foe and a suspicious friend. [ Pope ]

Wouldst thou wisely, and with pleasure,
Pass the days of life's short measure,
From the slow one counsel take,
But a tool of him never make;
Ne'er as friend the swift one know,
Nor the constant one as foe. [ Schiller ]

He makes no friend who never made a foe. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

A foe to God was never true friend to man;
Some sinister intent taints all he does. [ Young ]

A careless watch invites the vigilant foe. [ Proverb ]

Friends I have made, whom envy must commend.
But not one foe whom I would wish a friend. [ Churchill ]

None but yourself who are your greatest foe. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Tell not your foe when your foot is slipping. [ Proverb ]

Trust not yourself; but your defects to know,
Make use of every friend - and every foe. [ Pope ]

Cursed be the verse, how well so ever it flow,
That tends to make one worthy man my foe. [ Pope ]

He that can be patient has his foe at his feet. [ Dutch Proverb ]

A detractor is his own foe and the world's enemy. [ Proverb ]

A courageous foe is better than a cowardly friend. [ Proverb ]

As one who in some frightful dream would shun
His pressing foe, labors in vain to run
And his own slowness in his sleep bemoans.
In short thick sighs, weak cries, and tender groans. [ Dryden ]

Proud-crested fiend, the world's worst foe, ambition. [ Bloomfield ]

Who overcomes by force, Hath overcome but half his foe. [ Milton ]

The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason. [ Colton ]

Before mine eyes in opposition sits Grim Death, my son and foe. [ Milton ]

There's not so much danger in a known foe as a suspected friend. [ Nabb ]

Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking. [ Walter Scott ]

A fop of fashion is the mercer's friend, the tailor's fool, and his own foe. [ Proverb ]

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

A witty writer is like a porcupine; his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe, and make themselves the common enemies of mankind. [ L'Estrange ]

The crudest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue. [ Emerson ]

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it doth singe yourself. We may outrun by violent swiftness that which we run at, and lose by overrunning. [ William Shakespeare ]

Oratory is the huffing and blustering spoiled child of a semi-barbarous age. The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason; and the art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and readers wise enough to read. [ Colton ]