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Quarrel with a friend - and you are both wrong. -- Laozi
Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. -- Abraham Lincoln
I had A Lover's Quarrel With The World Robert Lee Frost (Old Bennington Cemetery, Bennington, Vermont) Our Darling Eva We Love You. -- Eva Gabor
Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends? -- George Eliot
I had a lovers quarrel with the world. -- Robert Frost
In a false quarrel there is no true valor. -- William Shakespeare
I don't like yelling and fighting, and I can't quarrel. -- Grace Kelly
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship. -- Saint Francis de Sales
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle. -- Thomas Carlyle
Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw. -- John McCrae
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. -- Robert Frost
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. -- William Butler Yeats
I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world. -- Robert Frost
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. -- Winston Churchill
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men. -- David Lloyd George
A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time. -- Jean Rostand
It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting. -- Soren Kierkegaard
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. -- Aldous Huxley
We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world. -- Henry Cabot Lodge
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. -- John Keats
Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them. -- Horace Mann
How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing. -- Neville Chamberlain
Paul Taylor's 'Offenbach Overtures' has lots of zip and charm, and its pair of dueling soldiers in red, who end up starry-eyed about each other while their disgusted seconds take up the quarrel, is nonstop funny. -- Robert Gottlieb
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel. -- Abraham Lincoln
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him? -- Blaise Pascal
When one set of Jews labels another set of Jews 'anti-Semitic,' they are trying to monopolize the right to speak in the name of the Jews. So the allegation of anti-Semitism is actually a cover for an intra-Jewish quarrel. -- Judith Butler
We got ratings. It isn't that they won't quarrel with you, or say you're always right. But as long as you stay strong and the ratings are good and you're reasonable - I don't think we fought unreasonably. We basically won that right. -- Norman Lear
We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path. -- Rafik Hariri
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Saying and Doing, have quarrel'd and parted. -- Benjamin Franklin
Life is a quest and love a quarrel -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
An ant has no quarrel with a boot. -- Tom Hiddleston
I won't quarrel with my bread and butter. -- Jonathan Swift
Carrying a poppy he passes through the quarrel. -- Kobayashi Issa
From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs. -- Cato the Elder
Persons unmask their evilest qualities when they do quarrel. -- George Herbert
I never take my own side in a quarrel. -- Robert Frost
I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong, -- Muhammad Ali
God turns His back on those who quarrel among themselves. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The less the difference, the greater the quarrel over it. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have no quarrel with people seeing me as a sinner. -- Mario Cuomo
You too shall pass away. Knowing this, how can you quarrel? -- Gautama Buddha
When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A lover's quarrel is always about every quarrel you ever had. -- Robert Breault
God's justice and God's mercy do not quarrel with each other. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
In real life, it takes only one to make a quarrel. -- Ogden Nash
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves. -- Daniel Webster
Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy. -- Elbert Hubbard
Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right. -- Plato
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with. -- Thomas Carlyle
We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them. -- Luc de Clapiers
Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language. -- Meister Eckhart
We do not want churches. They will teach us to quarrel about God. -- Chief Joseph
I'm armed with more than complete steel, - The justice of my quarrel. -- Christopher Marlowe
Music doesn't argue, discuss, or quarrel. It just breathes the air of freedom. -- Harold Arlen
Sticks and stones, I'll break yer bones, but names ain't worth a quarrel. -- Philip Pullman
It requires two indiscreet persons to institute a quarrel; one individual cannot quarrel alone. -- Aime Martin
You were in a mood to quarrel. Please inform me once the inclination passes. -- Catherine the Great
I had a lifelong quarrel with God, but in the end we made up. -- Thomas Carlyle
If you dispute with me you will only quarrel with your bread and butter. -- Francis Bond Head
When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To see both sides of a quarrel, is to judge without hate or alarm -- Richard Thompson
They who quarrel with others, instead of quarrelling with their own hearts, waste their lives. -- Guru Amar Das
You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched. -- E. W. Howe
The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. -- George Bernard Shaw
I am for the world's salvation, I will quarrel with no means that promises help. -- William Booth
Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us. -- Eric Hoffer
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war. -- Charles Caleb Colton
I will not quarrel with a slight mistake, Such as our nature's frailty may excuse. -- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone. -- E. W. Howe
What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he arm'd, that hath his quarrel just ... -- William Shakespeare
Your quarrel is with God. I merely wish to offer Him the opportunity to judge you. -- Seth Grahame-Smith
A brave man scorns to quarrel once a day; Like Hectors in at every petty fray. -- John Dryden
There is some truth in everything. Views and opinions are different aspects. Do not quarrel with others. -- Sivananda
My quarrel is not with the legitimate role of government but with the unlimited role of government. -- Rick Perry
I have no quarrel with people who lack the skill or temperament to care for small children. -- Carolyn Hax
We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves. -- William Hazlitt
So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man. -- J. C. Ryle
It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel. -- Elizabeth Drew
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Science can have no quarrel with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are His children. -- Arthur Compton
A bag of dragons buys a man's silence for a while, but a well-placed quarrel buys it forever. -- George R. R. Martin
I can't imagine a human being so hard up for something to do as to quarrel with me. -- Joseph Conrad
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. -- Winston Churchill
Faith is not sure, if you cannot turn love to quarrel; may my enemies obtain a mild mistress. -- Propertius
I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness. -- Os Guinness
husbands and wives quarrel a lot more than anyone thinks, and it's oftener about little things than big ones ... -- Patricia Wentworth
My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel. -- Henry Taylor
Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life? -- Boethius
...this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion. -- G.K. Chesterton
Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, But four times he who gets his blow in fust -- Josh Billings
I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art. -- Mary Baker Eddy
Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one. -- George Etherege
It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The great mistake about Europe is taking the countries seriously and letting them quarrel and drop bombs on one another. -- Edmund Wilson
Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men -- David Lloyd George
Next to the coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one. -- George Etherege
Do not quarrel or restlessly seek for more knowledge, until you have given proper honor to what you already know. -- Bryant McGill
One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality. -- Oliver Goldsmith
I must not quarrel with the will Of highest dispensation, which herein, Haply had ends above my reach to know. -- John Milton
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature. -- Cyril Connolly
To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful. -- Margaret Deland
I don't even remember what Mother and I quarreled about: it is a continual quarrel that began when I reached puberty. -- Marge Piercy
As it takes two to make a quarrel, so it takes two to make a disease, the microbe and its host. -- Charles V. Chapin
Never let a domestic quarrel ruin a day's writing. If you can't start the day fresh, get rid of your wife. -- Mario Puzo
Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for. -- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Don't go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst. -- Benjamin Franklin
A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation. -- William Ellery Channing
Your days pass like rainbows, like a flash of lightning, like a star at dawn. Your life is short. How can you quarrel? -- Gautama Buddha
Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love. -- Edward Abbey
Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. -- William Shakespeare
If you prayed as much as you complain and quarrel, you'd have a lot less to argue about and much more peace of mind. -- Rick Warren
Bitter words normally evaporate with the moisture of breath, after a quarrel. In order to become permanent, they require transcribers, reporters, complicit black hearts. -- Barbara Kingsolver
The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel - and all of them are right. -- Heinrich Heine
It ain't because lovers are so sensitive that they quarrel so often; it is because there is so much fun n the making up. -- Josh Billings
The challenge of co-operation in today's age of quarrel can be achieved by adjusting every situation according to the higher principle of loving God. -- Radhanath Swami

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