Quarrel Quotes
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One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
Never in the field of human endeavour was so much owed by so many to so few. (Quote by - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill)
Old men should be able to agree so young men don't have to die. (Quote by - Lieutenant General James Conway)
In quarreling, the truth is always lost. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)
When worthy men fall out, only one of them may be faulty at the first; but if strife continue long, commonly both become guilty. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
Those who in quarrels interpose, Must often wipe a bloody nose. (Quote by - John Gay)
I thought it would be like Boy Scouts. (Quote by - Stephen E. Funk)
When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless! (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find a quarrel in a straw When honor's at the stake. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric, out of the quarrel with ourslves we make a poetry. (Quote by - William Butler Yeats)
Two cannot fall out if one does not choose. (Quote by - Spanish Proverb)
Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms, rather than things; and, secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting. (Quote by - May Sarton)
If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want ... well, that's where you're right. But--and I am only saying this because I care--there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing. (Quote by - Val Kilmer)
I strove with none; for none was worth my strife. (Quote by - Walter Savage Landor)
The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel -- and all of them are right. (Quote by - Heinrich Heine)
Persons unmask their evilest qualities when they do quarrel. (Quote by - George Herbert)
The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when two men say the same thing -- and fight about the interpretation, and this interpretation involves a difference of quality. (Quote by - Soren Kierkegaard)
When chickens quit quarrelling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them. I wonder if it might not be the same with the human race. (Quote by - Don Marquis)
Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation. (Quote by - William Ellery Channing)
Those glorious days, when man said to man, Let us be brothers, or I will knock you down. (Quote by - Gilliaume Pigault Lebrun)
O we fell out, I know not why, And kiss'd again with tears. (Quote by - Lord Alfred Tennyson)
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
Don't meddle with a family feud. (Quote by - African Proverb)
An altercation is like buttermilk -- the more you stir it, the sourer it gets. (Quote by - Bolivian Proverb)
Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies by any certain witnesses, nor judges. But as long as they go towards peace, that is Truth, it is no matter which way. (Quote by - Donne, John)
In love quarrels the party that loves the most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault. (Quote by - Sir Walter Scott)
I've been to war. I've raised twins. If I had a choice, I'd rather go to war. (Quote by - George W. Bush)
I find my wife hath something in her gizzard that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up, but I will not, for my content-sake, give it. (Quote by - Samuel Pepys)
I'm armed with more than complete steel, The justice of my quarrel (Quote by - Christopher Marlowe)
A cow peacefully grazing fifty yards away received one of the bullets in her back. She had nothing to do with the quarrel all the same. (Quote by - Jules Verne)
Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends? (Quote by - George Eliot)
We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world -- at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others. (Quote by - Noam Chomsky)
Wise men do not quarrel with each other. (Quote by - Danish Proverb)
World War Three will be fought with weapons of mass destruction. World War Four will be fought with sticks and stones. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
It requires two indiscreet persons to institute a quarrel; one individual cannot quarrel alone. (Quote by - Aimee Martin)
Let dogs delight to bark and bite, For God hath made them so; Let bears and loons grown and fight, For 'tis their nature too. (Quote by - Isaac Watts)
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. (Quote by - John Stuart Mill)
Wars are no longer waged in the name of a sovereign who must be defended; they are waged on behalf of the existence of everyone; entire populations are mobilized for the purpose of wholesale slaughter in the name of life necessity: massacres have become vital. (Quote by - Michel Foucault)
Beware of entrance to a quarrel; but, being in, bear it, that the opposer may beware of thee. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands; we should only spoil it by trying to explain it. (Quote by - Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves. (Quote by - Daniel Webster)
The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms; everything is more beautiful when they have passed. (Quote by - Madame Suzanne Curchod Necker)
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side. (Quote by - Francois De La Rochefoucauld)
One makes war to win, not because it's just. (Quote by - Michel Foucault)
Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run: So lines that from their parallel decline, More they proceed the more they still disjoin. (Quote by - Sir Samuel Garth)
For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone. (Quote by - Edgar Watson Howe)
It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion. (Quote by - William Ralph Inge)
If you cannot avoid a quarrel with a blackguard, let your lawyer manage it, rather than yourself. No man sweeps his own chimney, but employs a chimney-sweeper, who has no objection to dirty work, because it is his trade. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
The longer a man lives in this world the more he must be convinced that all domestic quarrels had better never be obtruded on the public; for, let the husband be right, or let him be wrong, there is always a sympathy existing for women which is certain to give the man the worst of it. (Quote by - Benjamin Robert Haydon)
We march up, moody or good-tempered soldiers - we reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant human animals. (Quote by - Erich Maria Remarque)
Quarreling is like cutting water with a sword. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
When two men quarrel, the one who yields first displays the nobler nature. (Quote by - The Talmud)
We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them. (Quote by - Luc de Clapier de Vauvanargues)
You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you. (Quote by - Leon Trotsky)
Those Rooks, dear, from morning till night, They seem to do nothing but quarrel and fight, And wrangle and jangle, and plunder. (Quote by - Dinah Maria Mulock)
Young men make wars and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage and hope for the future. Then old men make the peace, and the vices of peace are the vices of old men: mistrust and caution. (Quote by - Sir Alec Guinness)
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly. (Quote by - Bertolt Brecht)
The word 'hero' has been bandied about a lot to refer to anyone killed in Afghanistan or Iraq. But anyone who voluntarily goes to Afghanistan or Iraq [as a soldier] is fighting for an evil cause under an evil commander in chief. (Quote by - Ted Rall)
How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a far away country between people of whom we know nothing. (Quote by - Neville Chamberlain)
When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels. (Quote by - Voltaire)
He that blows the coals in quarrels he has nothing to do with has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
I won't quarrel with my bread and butter. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
The best quarrels, in the heat, are cursed by those that feel their sharpness. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party: there is no battle unless there be two. (Quote by - Seneca)
There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare. (Quote by - Sun Tzu)
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. (Quote by - William Butler Yeats)
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. (Quote by - George Orwell)
War is a catalogue of blunders. (Quote by - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill)
Coarse kindness is at least better than coarse anger; and in all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of its dullness. (Quote by - George Eliot)
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is a civil war, and in all such contentions, triumphs are defeats. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
A marriage in which no quarrelling at all takes place may well be one that is dead or dying from emotional undernourishment. (Quote by - Flora Davis)
Better be quarrelling than lonesome. (Quote by - Irish Proverb)
If he had two ideas in his head, they would fall out with each other. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
I will rather suffer a thousand wrongs than offer one. I have always found that to strive with a superior is injurious; with an equal, doubtful; with an inferior, sordid and base; with any, full of unquietness. (Quote by - Joseph Hall)
Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw. (Quote by - John McCrae)
I wish it were never one's duty to quarrel with anybody; I do so hate it: but not to do it sometimes is to smile in the devil's face. (Quote by - George Macdonald)
The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them. (Quote by - George Orwell)
A Liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
I consider your very testy and quarrelsome people in the same light as I do a loaded gun, which may, by accident, go off and kill one. (Quote by - William Shenstone)
In most quarrels there is a fault on both sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark, which cannot be produced without a flint, as well as steel. Either of them may hammer on wood forever; no fire will follow. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left. (Quote by - Robert Lynd)
Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel. (Quote by - John Keats)
It takes two to start an altercation, but only one to end it. (Quote by - Nicaraeuan Proverb)
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. (Quote by - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
Those who in quarrels interpose,Must often wipe a bloody nose. (Quote by - John Gay)
The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
I had a lover's quarrel with the world. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
I thought your love eternal. Was it tied so loosely that a quarrel could divide? (Quote by - John Dryden)
Make war not on terrorism but on ignorance, on sickness and on environmental degradation. (Quote by - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)
Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes. (Quote by - Michel Eyquem De Montaigne)
I never take my own side in a quarrel. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
I can't imagine a human being so hard up for something to do as to quarrel with me. (Quote by - Joseph Conrad)
