No slave, to lazy ease resign'd,
E'er triumphed over noble foes;
The monarch, Fortune, most is kind
To him who bravely dares oppose. [ Cervantes ]

The man that makes a character makes foes. [ Young ]

Toss'd on a sea of troubles, soul, my soul,
Thyself do thou control;
And to the weapons of advancing foes
A stubborn breast oppose. [ Archilochus ]

Truth finds foes where it should find none. [ Proverb ]

Detractors are their own foes, and the world's enemies. [ Proverb ]

A clever woman has millions of born foes - all stupid men. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]

Women always find their bitterest foes among their own sex. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

To be great one must be positive, and gain strength through foes. [ Donn Piatt ]

When we our betters see bearing our woes, we scarcely think our miseries our foes. [ William Shakespeare ]

Of four things every man has more than he knows--of sins, and debts, and years, and foes. [ Persian Proverb ]

The reconciling grave swallows distinction first, that made us foes; there all lie down in peace together. [ Southern ]

Dost thou now fall over to my foes? Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame, And hang a calf's skin on those recreant limbs. [ William Shakespeare ]

The heart must be perpetually fortified by wise counsel and high moral principle, or it will inevitably submit to the invasion of the vilest foes. [ Magoon ]

The cuffs and thumps with which fate, our lady-loves, our friends and foes, put us to the proof, in the mind of a good and resolute man, vanish into air. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue but moody and dull melancholy, kinsman to grim and comfortless despair; and at their heels, a huge infectious troop of pale distemperatures and foes to life. [ William Shakespeare ]

He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons, which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons, which are strong. [ Colton ]