“Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife”
Thomas Gray
“Queen Victoria - this flabby, fat, flatulent looking scion and successor of the most ignoble line of Royal Georges - Her chief claim to the remembrance of posterity will be that she has the means of afflicting the English people with a most prolific”
John Norton
“HANDKERCHIEF, n. A small square of silk or linen, used in various ignoble offices about the face and especially serviceable at funerals to conceal the lack of tears. The handkerchief is of recent invention; our ancestors knew nothing of it and intrusted its duties to the sleeve. Shakespeare's introducing it into the play of "Othello" is an anachronism: Desdemona dried her nose with her skirt, as Dr. Mary Walker and other reformers have done with their coattails in our own day --an evidence that revolutions sometimes go backward.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Flowers do not force their way with great strife. Flowers open to perfection slowly in the sun.... Don't be in a hurry about spiritual matters. Go step by step, and be very sure.”
White Eagle
“'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.”
William Shakespeare
“When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish”
Adlai E. Stevenson
“Life is a short affair; we should try to make it smooth, and free from strife”
Euripides
