DISCORD

Related Subjects: Argument, Differences, Faction, Harmony, Music, Noise, Opposition, Quarrels, Rebellion, War

1. From hence, let fierce contending nations know
   What dire effects from civil discord flow.—ADDISON, Cato
   

2. If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.—Bible, Mark 3:25
   

3. In a case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.—EURIPIDES, Heracleidae

4. When dreadful Discord bursts her brazen bars,
   And shatters locks to thunder forth her wars.—HORACE, Satires
   

5. Is it, O man, with such discordant noises,
   With such accursed instruments as these,
   Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices,
   And jarrest the celestial harmonies?—LONGFELLOW, The Arsenal at Springfield
   

6. All your danger is in discord.—LONGFELLOW, Hiawatha
   

7. Discord, with a thousand various mouths.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
   

8. All discord, harmony not understood.—POPE, Essay on Man
   

9. How, in one house,
   Should many people, under two commands,
   Hold amity?—SHAKESPEARE, King Lear
   

10. The Demon of Discord, with her sooty wings, had breathed her influence upon our counsels.—SMOLLETT, Roderick Random