Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity. -
Saskya Pandita
Football: A game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity. -
Vince Lombardi
A game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity. -
Vince Lombardi
The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and strain from the lees of the vat. -
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Can such bitterness enter into the heart of the devout? [Fr., Tant de fiel entre-t-il dans l'ame des devots?] -
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart. -
Walter Savage Landor
The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose. -
Francis Thompson
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. -
Charlotte Bronte
But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness, each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked, each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity. -
Herbert Butterfield
