Contention

A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.

— Contention

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

— Contention

Thus when a barber and collier fight,And in the dust they raise the combatants are lost.

— Contention

Did thrust (as now) in others' corn his sickle.

— Contention

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

— Contention

'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.

— Contention

Great contest follows, and much learned dustAnd truth disclaiming both.

— Contention

So when two dogs are fighting in the streets,And this dog smarts for what that dog has done.

— Contention

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.

— Contention

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.

— Contention

The contention that is good for the city—I pray that god never destroy that.

— Contention

Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between thee and me.

— Contention

Not hate, but glory, made these chiefs contend;And each brave foe was in his soul a friend.

— Contention

But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast,From sharp contentions.

— Contention

A man of strife and a man of contention.

— Contention

If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

— Contention