We've found 5 quotes for 'contend' (0.101 seconds):
| "Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose." »Baltasar Gracian |
| "With stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." »Friedrich von Schiller |
| "Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything familiarity." »Honore' de Balzac |
| "Histories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtle natural philosophy, deep moral, grave logic and rhetoric, able to contend." »Francis Bacon |
| "Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yieldAgainst stupidity the very godsThemselves contend in vain. Exalted reason,Resplendent daughter of the head divine,Wise foundress of the system of the world,Guide of the stars, who are thou then, if thou,Bound to the tail of folly's uncurb'd steed,Must, vainly shrieking, with the drunken crowd,Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss." »Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller |
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