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| The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive. | Lionel Trilling | 1905-1975, American Critic |
| Most QUARRELS amplify a misunderstanding. | Andre Gide | 1869-1951, French Author |
| I against my brother I and my brother against our cousin, my brother and our cousin against the neighbours all of us against the foreigner. | Bedouin Proverb | Sayings of Bedouin Origin |
| 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. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature. | Cyril Connolly | 1903-1974, British Critic |
| Wise men do not quarrel with each other. | Danish Proverb | Sayings of Danish Origin |
| 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. | Derek Walcott | 1930-, Poet and Playwright, born in West Indies |
| People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarrelling with them. | Edmund Burke | 1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman |
| Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for. | Edward F. Halifax | 1881-1959, British Conservative Statesman |
| The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who QUARRELS with facts is a fool. | Frank Garbutt | |
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| A good swordsman is not given to quarrel. | French Proverb | Sayings of French Origin |
| The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. | George Bernard Shaw | 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist |
| What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs? | George Eliot | 1819-1880, British Novelist |
| In all private QUARRELS the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. | George Eliot | 1819-1880, British Novelist |
| Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarrelled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends? | George Eliot | 1819-1880, British Novelist |
| People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. | Gilbert K. Chesterton | 1874-1936, British Author |
| Editing is the same as quarreling with writers -- same thing exactly. | Harold Wallace Ross | 1892-1951, American Newspaper Editor |
| 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 | 1797-1856, German Poet, Journalist |
| Better be quarrelling than lonesome. | Irish Proverb | Sayings of Irish Origin |
| I attribute the QUARRELSome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed. | Jerome K. Jerome | 1859-1927, British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright |
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| 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 | 1688-1732, British Playwright, Poet |
| Those who in QUARRELS interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose. | John Gay | 1688-1732, British Playwright, Poet |
| 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 | 1795-1821, British Poet |
| The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarrelling? | Margaret Gatty | |
| It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting. | May Sarton | 1912-, American Poet, Novelist |
| The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbours, causes a war to follow between Princes. | Michel Eyquem De Montaigne | 1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist |
| The falling out of faithful friends, renewing is of love. | Richard Edwardes | |
| I had a lovers quarrel with the world. | Robert Frost | 1875-1963, American Poet |
| And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world. | Robert Frost | 1875-1963, American Poet |
| A liberal man is too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel. | Robert Frost | 1875-1963, American Poet |
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| 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. | Samuel Pepys | 1633-1703, British Diarist |
| A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two. | Seneca | 4 B.C. ¾ 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher |
| 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 | 1813-1855, Danish Philosopher, Writer |
| When two quarrel, both are in the wrong. | Source Unknown | |
| 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. | Source Unknown | |
| He who forgives ends the quarrel | Source Unknown | |
| It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it. | Spanish Proverb | Sayings of Spanish Origin |
| 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. | St. Augustine | 354-430, Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo, Theologian |
| A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship. | St. Francis De Sales | 1567-1622, Roman Catholic Bishop, Writer |
| Lovers QUARRELS are the renewal of love. | Terence | BC 185-18159, Roman Writer of Comedies |
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| An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry. | Thomas Jefferson | 1743-1826, Third President of the USA |
| A coward is much more exposed to QUARRELS than a man of spirit. | Thomas Jefferson | 1743-1826, Third President of the USA |
| Weakness on both sides is, the motto of all QUARRELS. | Voltaire | 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer |
| Books and harlots have their QUARRELS in public. | Walter Benjamin | 1982-1940, German Critic, Philosopher |
| I strove with none; for none was worth my strife. | Walter Savage Landor | 1775-1864, British Poet, Essayist |
| The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarrelling about where they are going next. | William Faulkner | 1897-1962, American Novelist |
| All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is QUARRELSome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad. | William Penn | 1644-1718, British Religious Leader, Founder of Pennsylvania |
| In a false quarrel there is no true valour. | William Shakespeare | 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor |
| The course of true love never did run smooth. | William Shakespeare | 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor |
| If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future. | Winston Churchill | 1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister |
