| Author |
Quotes |
| Bible | And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren. |
| Bible | Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me. |
| Bible | And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. |
| Bible | A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike. |
| Francois Rabelais | Stir up the hornets. |
| Henry Fielding | So when two dogs are fighting in the streets, When a third dog one of the two dogs meets: With angry teeth he bites him to the bone, And this dog smarts for what that dog has done. |
| Homer | But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, For gentle ways are best, and keep aloof From sharp contentions. |
| Homer | Not hate, but glory, made these chiefs contend; And each brave foe was in his soul a friend. |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have most at heart. They dread the electric shock of a too sudden contact with it. |
| Pierre Corneille | And the combat ceased, for want of combatants. |
| Robert Burton | 'Tis a hydra's head contention; the more they strive the more they may: and as Praxiteles did by his glass, when he saw a scurvy face in it, brake it in pieces; but for that one he saw many more as bad in a moment. |
| Robert Burton | He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. |
| Sir Walter Scott | Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause. |
| William Cowper | Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants, each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both. |
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