“ Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run: So lines that from their parallel decline, More they proceed the more they still disjoin. ”
- Sir Samuel Garth- Copy
- 3.5K
“ The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
- 808
“ Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better. ”
- Charles Burney- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Believe me, lords, my tender years can tell Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.7K
“ And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain. ”
- Jean Ingelow- Copy
- 2.1K
“ If they perceive dissension in our looks And that within ourselves we disagree, How will their grudging stomachs be provoked To willfull disobedience, and rebel! ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.9K
“ And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way. ”
- Jean Ingelow- Copy
- 3K
“ Have always been at daggers-drawing, And one another clapper-clawing. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
- 1.9K
“ If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it. ”
- Lawana Blackwell- Copy
- 1.9K
“ The beginning of thought is in disagreement — not only with others but also with ourselves. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions. ”
- Sir Edward Coke- Copy
- 2.6K
“ In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life appears. ”
- Constance Rourke- Copy
- 43
“ In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side. ”
- Euripides- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better. I am convinced...that provided the ear be at length made amends, there are few dissonances too strong for it. Disharmony, to paraphrase Bergson's statement about disorder, is simply a harmony to which many are unaccustomed. ”
- John Cage- Copy
- 2K
“ Whoever knows he is deep, strives for clarity; whoever would like to appear deep to the crowd, strives for obscurity. For the crowd considers anything deep if only it cannot see to the bottom: the crowd is so timid and afraid of going into the water. ”
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied; That stood the storm when waves were rough, Yet in a sunny hour fall off. ”
- Thomas Moore- Copy
- 1.3K
“ A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. ”
- H.G. Wells- Copy
- 3.7K
- 1