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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding. -- Andre Gide
The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love. -- Jean Racine
Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another. -- Ovid
Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive -- Antisthenes
Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive. -- Antisthenes
Quarrels in France strengthen a love affair, in America they end it. -- Ned Rorem
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit. -- Thomas Jefferson
Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels. -- Voltaire
Quarrels never could last long, if on one side only lay the wrong. -- Benjamin Franklin
Quarrels are a natural part of relationships. Making up is always the best part. -- Maureen Johnson
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. -- Aldous Huxley
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong, -- Muhammad Ali
I strove with none; for none was worth my strife. -- Walter Savage Landor
Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose. -- Benjamin Franklin
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves. -- Daniel Webster
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship. -- Saint Francis de Sales
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. -- George Eliot
The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. -- George Bernard Shaw
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. -- Winston Churchill
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
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
The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes. -- Michel de Montaigne
Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat, and yet thy head hath been beaten as addle as an egg for quarrelling. -- William Shakespeare
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
He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. - Ben Franklin -- Benjamin Franklin
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. -- Soren Kierkegaard
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. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Lovers quarrels are the renewal of love. -- Terence
Books and harlots have their quarrels in public. -- Walter Benjamin
Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards. -- E. M. Forster
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics. -- Wendell Phillips
Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose. -- Benjamin Franklin
Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left. -- Robert Staughton Lynd
Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity. -- Saskya Pandita
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves. -- Blaise Pascal
What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power. -- William S. Paley
Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves. -- Henry L. Stimson
Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal. -- Xun Zi
The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of. -- Gilbert Murray
The concept of God in Jewish orthodoxy is one where you're having constant quarrels with God. Where I come from, in Islam, the only concept of God is you submit to Him and you obey His commands; no quarreling allowed. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her power for good and endanger her very existence. -- Henry Cabot Lodge
When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter. -- Terri Apter
What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels. -- Saint Augustine
What I tell young couples that are getting married is: you're going to have quarrels, and on some things, you're just going to have to agree to disagree. And when you go to bed at night, kiss each other and tell each other that you love each other. Don't go to bed mad. Life is too short. Keep it simple. -- Si Robertson
I'm Irish and always will be, but America has taught me so much. Maybe it's here in the U.S. that we find a healing, for in the broader melting pot we get to look at some of these self-destructive attributes that we bring to bear upon our own quarrels and begin to solve them in ways other than just splitting apart. -- Fionnula Flanagan
Settle your quarrels, come together, -- George Jackson
Unfounded hate only multiplies quarrels. -- Nachman of Breslov
Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end. -- John Milton
Be ready for reconciliation after quarrels. -- Cleobulus
A bad workman quarrels with his tools. -- George Herbert
Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures. -- Alexandre Dumas
A happy love is full of quarrels, you know. -- Jean Anouilh
The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes. -- Aesop
For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
History writes the word 'Reconciliation' over all her quarrels. -- Jan Smuts
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A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that. -- Ambrose Bierce
Lovers' quarrels are not generally about money. Divorce cases generally are. -- Mason Cooley
He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent. -- Publilius Syrus
The dove loves when it quarrels; the wolf hates when it flatters. -- Saint Augustine
The secret of getting along with people is that of postponing quarrels. -- Murray Leinster
Neurotic quarrels always have the same theme-song: Hate me and get it over with. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Many do not realize that we here must die. For those who realize this, quarrels end. -- Gautama Buddha
Many do not realize that we here must die. For those who realize this, quarrels end. -- Gautama Buddha
Bad quarrels come when two people are wrong. Worse quarrels come when two people are right. -- Betty Smith
Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death. -- Horace
The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms. Everything is more beautiful when they have passed. -- Suzanne Curchod
Two-thirds of all the strifes, quarrels, and lawsuits in the world arise from one simple cause-money. -- J. C. Ryle
With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes. -- George Santayana
Some do not understand that we must die, But those who do realize this settle their quarrels. -- Gautama Buddha
In love quarrels the party that loves the most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault. -- Walter Scott
I thought we'd die there, quarrels in our backs, you for what you did and me for bearing witness. -- Janet Morris
When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa. -- Aristotle
There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old. -- Confucius
Do the rhetorical quarrels of bourgeois political parties have anything to do with the interests of the humble and downtrodden? -- Mario Vargas Llosa
Then there is the usual scene when lovers are excited with each other, quarrels, entreaties, reproaches, and then fondling reconcilement. -- Tacitus
our quarrels with the world are like our quarrels with God: no matter how right we are, we are wrong. -- Randall Jarrell
Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity. -- Saskya Pandita
How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable "Hoc" produced for the world! -- Michel de Montaigne
The more borders we have, the more quarrels, the more wars. That's one way to think about borders - they're trouble. -- Robert Krulwich
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 am weary of your quarrels, Weary of your wars and bloodshed, Weary of your prayers for vengeance, Of your wranglings and dissensions -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There are some places that have had real quarrels with the United States' policies, but I think the country is very well-respected worldwide. -- Condoleezza Rice
And when life's sweet fable ends, soul and body part like friends; no quarrels, murmurs, no delay; a kiss, a sigh, and so away. -- Richard Crashaw
Would a CONSCIOUS human being destroy himself through war, and crime, and quarrels? No, a man simply knows not what he does to himself. -- G. I. Gurdjieff
there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it was a human world. -- Orson Scott Card
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top. -- Bertolt Brecht
I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe.... They are nations of eternal war. -- Thomas Jefferson
The time has come to educate people, to cease all quarrels in the name of religion, culture, countries, different political or economic systems. Fighting is useless. Suicide. -- Dalai Lama
When all the arguments have been forgotten, this central fact will remain. The two nations fought a single war, and their quarrels were the quarrels of brothers. -- Henry L. Stimson
To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost. -- Pat Summitt
The English mind is always in a rage. The intellect of the race is wasted in the sordid and stupid quarrels of second-rate politicians or third-rate theologians. -- Oscar Wilde
In one of their quarrels, they had begun calling each other Mister. and Misses., and since then they had never made it up enough to change it. -- Carson McCullers
A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him. -- Abraham Lincoln
That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true... -- Thomas Paine
That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true -- Thomas Paine
Do you know what is better than charity and fasting and prayer? It is keeping peace and good relations between people, as quarrels and bad feelings destroy mankind." -- Anonymous
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. -- Henri Bourassa
So all I'm saying is, everything that seems important--our quarrels, or philosophical differences--in the end, it doesn't matter much. You know? In the end, what matters is what remains. -- Thrity Umrigar
if it has to be that wars and battles are begun for many reasons and quarrels, then they should also be avoided and shunned by better and more valid reasons ... -- Christine de Pizan
The quarrels of theologians and philosophers have not been about religion, but about philosophy; and philosophers not unfrequently seem to entertain the same feeling toward theologians that sportsmen cherish toward poachers. -- Thomas Huxley
The States separately have very inadequate ideas of the present danger. Party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day, whilst the concerns of the nation are secondary. -- George Washington
We may be of the same family, but that is the very reason why we are not friends, for we are rivals for the throne. What quarrels are worse than family quarrels? -- Philippa Gregory
I want a trouble-maker for a lover, Blood spiller, blood drinker, a heart of flame, Who quarrels with the sky and fights with fate, Who burns like fire on the rushing sea. -- Rumi
Disputes among natural philosophers are of use to science, as the quarrels of the great, and the clamors of the little, are necessary to freedom of thought and the advancement of learning. -- Hal Hellman
The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief. -- Francis Bacon
Can you support the expense of a husband, hussy, in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have you money enough to carry on the daily quarrels of man and wife about who shall squander most? -- John Gay
ONCE remove the old arena of theological quarrels, and you will throw open the whole world to the most horrible, the most hopeless, the most endless, the most truly interminable quarrels; the untheological quarrels. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all. -- Jane Austen
Keep carefully not of all scrapes and quarrels. They lower a character extremely; and are particularly dangerous in France, wherea man is dishonoured by not resenting an affront, and utterly ruined by resenting it. -- Lord Chesterfield
I come from a very religious background.And actually I remained in it. All my anger I describe in my quarrels with God in Auschwitz, but you know I used to pray every day. -- Elie Wiesel
What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party. -- John Keats
If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness. -- Sigmund Freud
People in Parliament occupy themselves with private animosities and petty quarrels, and think little of the national interest. It is impossible to credit the serene indifference with which they consider events outside their own country. -- William III of England

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