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Quarrels Quotes
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A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship. (Quote by - St. Francis De Sales)
I strove with none; for none was worth my strife. (Quote by - Walter Savage Landor)
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 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 against my brother I and my brother against our cousin, my brother and our cousin against the neighbors, all of us against the foreigner. (Quote by - Bedouin Proverb)
The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
People generally quarrel because they can't argue. (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)
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 - Talmud)
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side. (Quote by - La Rochefoucauld)
So long as the majority of Canadians have two countries, one here and one in Europe, national unity will remain a myth and a constant source of internecine quarrels. (Quote by - Henri Bourassa)
Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death. (Quote by - Horace)
The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love. (Quote by - Terence)
Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels. (Quote by - Voltaire)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
I thought your love eternal. Was it tied so loosely that a quarrel could divide? (Quote by - John Dryden)
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)
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)
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 (1))
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)
One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
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)
Persons unmask their evilest qualities when they do quarrel. (Quote by - George Herbert)
For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone. (Quote by - Edgar Watson Howe)
If he had two ideas in his head, they would fall out with each other. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
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)
It requires two indiscreet persons to institute a quarrel; one individual cannot quarrel alone. (Quote by - Aime Martin)
The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms; everything is more beautiful when they have passed. (Quote by - Madame Suzanne Curchod Necker)
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)
In love quarrels the party that loves the most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault. (Quote by - Sir Walter Scott)
Beware of entrance to a quarrel; but, being in, bear it, that the opposer may beware of thee. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
If I can fasten but one cup upon him, With that which he hath drunk to-night already, He'll be as full of quarrel and offense As my young mistress' dog. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The best quarrels, in the heat, are cursed by those that feel their sharpness. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
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)
We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them. (Quote by - Luc de Clapier de Vauvanargues)
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. (Quote by - William Butler Yeats)
Better be quarrelling than lonesome. (Quote by - Irish Proverb)
Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole. (Quote by - Derek Walcott)
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. (Quote by - George Eliot)
Lovers quarrels are the renewal of love. (Quote by - Terence)
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)
The course of true love never did run smooth. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
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)
The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next. (Quote by - William Faulkner)
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)
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)
Wise men do not quarrel with each other. (Quote by - Danish Proverb)