Syrus.    

La Fontaine.    

Livy.    

Burke.    

Burton.    

	When two discourse, if the one’s anger rise,
	The man who lets the contest fall is wise.

Plutarch.    

	Contentions fierce,
	Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.

Scott.    

	Great contest follows, and much learned dust
	Involves the combatants; each claiming truth,
	And truth disclaiming both.

Cowper.    

Seneca.    

	Birds in their little nests agree:
	And ’tis a shameful sight,
	When children of one family
	Fall out, and chide, and fight.

Isaac Watts.    

	Contention, like a horse
	Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose,
	And bears down all before him.

Shakespeare.    

	Even as a broken mirror, which the glass
	In every fragment multiplies, and makes
	A thousand images of one that was
	The same, and still the more, the more it breaks.

Byron.    

	Some say, compared to Bononcini,
	That Mynheer Handel’s but a ninny;
	Others aver,—that he to Handel
	Is scarcely fit to hold a candle:
	Strange all this difference should be,
	’Twixt tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee?

John Byrom.    

	Thus when a barber and collier fight,
	The barber beats the luckless collier—white;
	The dusty collier heaves his ponderous sack,
	And, big with vengeance, beats the barber—black.
	In comes the brick-dust man, with grime o’erspread,
	And beats the collier and the barber—red;
	Black, red, and white, in various clouds are toss’d,
	And in the dust they raise the combatants are lost.

Christopher Smart.