#foe

Inventory: "Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#contentment #curiosity #doubt #envy #foes

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#combat #foes #greatest #must #our

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#great #known #reality #well #well known

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#blessing #curse #dawn #dusk #foe

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close. ↗

— William Wycherley

#close #death #eyes #foes #hunger

The man that makes a character, makes foes. ↗

— Edward Young

#foes #makes #man

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#advocated #both #complete #destructiveness #disputes

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#foes #home #ignorance #incompetence #only

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#ever #fear #foes #friends #hardly

The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. ↗

— Otto Hermann Kahn

#deadliest #democracy #foe #frenzied #liberty