RIVALRY

Related Subjects: Competition, Enemy, Envy, Jealousy, Opposition

1. It's the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.—ADDISON
   

2. In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.—C. N. BOVEE
   

3. Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride.—RUSKIN
   

4. The finest woman in nature should not detain me an hour from you; but you must sometimes suffer the rivalship of the wisest men.—SIR RICHARD STEELE, Letter to his wife
   

5. Of all the plagues a lover bears,
   Sure rivals are the worst.—WILLIAM WALSH, Song