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Quotes about Contention


Litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees.

John Milton

In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall.

Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay

Let the long contention cease!
Geese are swans and swans are geese!

Matthew Arnold

A man of strife and a man of contention.

Old Testament

The Swallow and the Crow The Swallow and the Crow had a contention about their plumage. The Crow put an end to the dispute by saying, Your feathers are all very well in the spring, but mine protect me against the winter. Fair weather friends are not worth much.

Aesop

In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey, which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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

'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

But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, For gentle ways are best, and keep aloof From sharp contentions.

Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")

Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.

Sir Walter Scott

Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention.

William Cowper

A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

George W. Bible

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