Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to…

To keep your actions and your plans secret always has been a very good thing . .. Marcus Crassus said to one who asked…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“If someone can't hear a trumpet melody, sprinkle dirt on his head and declare him dead.”

— Rumi

Old men when they begin to hear the last trumpet, on the morning breeze, often have a kind of absent-minded smile; like people listening.…

— Joyce Cary

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

— William Cowper

Muhammad was the exemplar ruler, exemplar father, exemplar warrior, and once you have a family, you have contentions, you have problems, human problems, and…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

There are still to be found visionary or designing men, who stand ready to advocate the paradox of perpetual peace between the states, though…

— Alexander Hamilton

Archbishop Milingo is a good Bishop and his contention that there are satanists in Rome is completely correct. Anybody who is acquainted with the…

— Malachi Martin

Even as we seek to be meek and to avoid contention, we must not compromise or dilute our commitment to the truths we understand.

— Dallin H. Oaks

I am tired of a life of contention, and of being the personal object for the hatred of every man, who hates the present…

— Thomas Jefferson

There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation who have…

— John Quincy Adams

I often think that those people are the happiest who know nothing at all of the world, and sitting in the little empire of…

— Elizabeth Montagu

It's got to do with the contention between content and form. Invariably that's what's responsible for its energies, its tensions, its being interesting or…

— Garry Winogrand

The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Well, you can certainly teach free-throwing. And you can teach the boys to pass at angles and run in curves. - University of Kansas…

— Darryl Dawkins

There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things,…

— James Nayler