Knaves and fools divide the world. [ Proverb ]

As we sail through life towards death,
Bound unto the same port - heaven -
Friend, what years could us divide? [ D. M. Mulock ]

He could distinguish and divide
A hair 'twixt south and south-west side. [ Butler ]

Great wits are sure to madness near allied,
And thin partitions do their bounds divide. [ John Dryden ]

Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs. [ Proverb ]

Dreams in their development have breath,
And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy.
They have a weight upon our waking thoughts,
They take a weight from off our waking toils,
They do divide our being. [ Byron ]

A daring pilot in extremity;
Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high
He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit,
Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Great wits are sure to madness near allied,
And thin partitions do their bounds divide; [ Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel ]

He shall be a god to me who can rightly divide and define. [ Quoted by Emerson ]

Virtue and vice divide the world; but vice has got the greater share. [ Proverb ]

I thought your love eternal. Was it tied so loosely that a quarrel could divide? [ Dryden ]

The world is large when its weary leagues two loving hearts divide; But the world is small when your enemy is loose on the other side. [ John Boyle O'Reilly ]

I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment for not agreeing in that from which within a few days I might dissent myself. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

Good people do a great deal of harm in the world. Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance. It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]