Strife genders strife. [ Proverb ]

Rest is sweet after strife. [ Lord Lytton ]

Bad keeps up a strife with good. [ Bodenstedt ]

Yet all I've learnt from hours rife
With painful brooding here,
Is, that amid this mortal strife.
The lapse of every year
But takes away a hope from life.
And adds to death a fear. [ Hoffman ]

Weight and measure take away strife. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

O! the gallant fisher's life.
It is the best of any:
'Tis full of pleasure, void of strife
And 'tis beloved by many.
Other joys
Are but toys;
Only this,
Lawful is;
For our skill
Breeds no ill,
But content and pleasure. [ Izaak Walton ]

Wit and judgment often are at strife. [ Pope ]

Twist ye, twine ye! even so,
Mingle shades of joy and woe,
Hope, and fear, and peace, and strife,
In the thread of human life. [ Scott ]

Nature and wisdom never are at strife. [ Juvenal ]

Great is the glory, for the strife is hard! [ Wordsworth ]

'Tis a stern and a startling thing to think
How often mortality stands on the brink
Of its grave without any misgiving;
And yet in this slippery world of strife,
In the stir of human bustle so rife.
There are daily sounds to tell us that Life
Is dying, and Death is living! [ Hood ]

Weight, measure, and tale, take away strife. [ Proverb ]

Let Observation, with extensive view,
Survey mankind from China to Peru;
Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife,
And watch the busy scenes of crowded life. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. [ Gray ]

Upon her face there was the tint of grief,
The settled shadow of an inward strife,
And an unquiet drooping of the eye.
As if its lid were charged with unshed tears. [ Byron ]

Assail'd by scandal and the tongue of strife,
His only answer was a blameless life;
And he that forged, and he that threw the dart,
Had each a brother's interest in his heart. [ Cowper ]

Wit and judgment often are at strife,
Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife. [ Pope ]

Want makes strife between the good-man and his wife. [ Proverb ]

There are, whom heaven has blessed with store of wit,
Yet want as much again to manage it;
For wit and judgment ever are at strife,
Tho' meant each other's aid, like man and wife. [ Pope ]

Strife begets strife, and injury likewise begets injury. [ Proverb ]

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side. [ Lowell ]

The gods from heaven survey the fatal strife, and mourn the miseries of human life. [ Dryden ]

Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

He that meddleth with strife belonging not to him is like one that taketh a dog by the ears. [ Bible ]

Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation. [ James Hervey ]

Haste makes waste, and waste makes want, and want makes strife between the gudeman and the gudewife. [ Scotch Proverb ]

Friendship consists properly in mutual offices, and a generous strife in alternate acts of kindness. [ South ]

When worthy men fall out, only one of them may be faulty at the first; but if strife continue long, commonly both become guilty. [ Fuller ]

O gentle sleep! my welcome breath shall hail thee midst our mortal strife, who art the very thief of life, the very portraiture of death. [ Alonzo de Ledesma ]

Oceans of ink, reams of paper, and disputes infinite, might have been spared, if wranglers had avoided lighting the torch of strife at the wrong end; since a tenth part of the pains expended in attempting to prove the why, the where, and the when, certain events have happened, would have been more than sufficient to prove that they never happened at all. [ Colton ]