quotes about Quarrels
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You should not quarrel with your neighbour, for he will remain where he is, but your high handedness will become the talk of the people.
-- Abu Bakr -
It requires two indiscreet persons to institute a quarrel; one individual cannot quarrel alone.
-- Aime Martin -
Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.
-- Antisthenes -
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Bad quarrels come when two people are wrong. Worse quarrels come when two people are right.
-- Betty Smith -
Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
-- Boethius -
You were in a mood to quarrel. Please inform me once the inclination passes.
-- Catherine the Great -
From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
-- Cato the Elder -
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I'm armed with more than complete steel, - The justice of my quarrel.
-- Christopher Marlowe -
Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly.
-- Elihu Root -
If you dispute with me you will only quarrel with your bread and butter.
-- Francis Bond Head -
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I don't like yelling and fighting, and I can't quarrel.
-- Grace Kelly -
There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
I thought we'd die there, quarrels in our backs, you for what you did and me for bearing witness.
-- Janet Morris -
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A brave man scorns to quarrel once a day; Like Hectors in at every petty fray.
-- John Dryden -
Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw.
-- John McCrae -
I must not quarrel with the will Of highest dispensation, which herein, Haply had ends above my reach to know.
-- John Milton -
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For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.
-- Logan Pearsall Smith -
We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them.
-- Luc de Clapiers -
I don't even remember what Mother and I quarreled about: it is a continual quarrel that began when I reached puberty.
-- Marge Piercy -
Quarrels are a natural part of relationships. Making up is always the best part.
-- Maureen Johnson -
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Neurotic quarrels always have the same theme-song: Hate me and get it over with.
-- Mignon McLaughlin -
The secret of getting along with people is that of postponing quarrels.
-- Murray LeinsterSource : Murray Leinster (2007). “The Planet Explorer”, p.85, Wildside Press LLC
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Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.
-- Plato -
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our quarrels with the world are like our quarrels with God: no matter how right we are, we are wrong.
-- Randall JarrellSource : Randall Jarrell (1965). “A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables”
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The dove loves when it quarrels; the wolf hates when it flatters.
-- Saint Augustine -
My quarrel with him is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting; and a book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book,—it is a plaything.
-- Thomas Love PeacockSource : Thomas Love Peacock (1856). “Maid Marian, and Crotchet Castle”, p.177
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I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
-- Walter Savage Landor -
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Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
-- Wendell PhillipsSource : Wendell Phillips, Theodore Parker, C. I. H. Nichols (1854). “Woman's Rights Tracts”, p.20
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
-- William Butler Yeats -
We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.
-- William Hazlitt -
In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
-- William Shakespeare -
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Americans will quarrel over how, who, or what to rescue or save, but the idea that the nation ought to be off doing it is challenged only by a few.
-- Nicholas von Hoffman -
History writes the word 'Reconciliation' over all her quarrels.
-- Jan SmutsSource : Jan Christian Smuts (1952). “Jan Christian Smuts: a biography”, William Morrow & Company