Gossips quarrel and tell the truth. [ Spanish Proverb ]
Greatly to find quarrel in a straw,
When honour's at the stake. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]
Rightly to be great
Is not to stir without great argument,
But greatly to find quarrel in a straw
When honour's at the stake. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]
When one will not, two can not quarrel. [ Proverb ]
Come and welcome; go by, and no quarrel. [ Proverb ]
There must be two at least to a quarrel. [ Proverb ]
All ill workmen quarrel with their tools. [ Proverb ]
I won't quarrel with my bread and butter. [ Swift ]
In a false quarrel there is no true valor. [ William Shakespeare ]
Marriage is sometimes only a long quarrel.
He that can make a fire well can end a quarrel. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands. [ Sheridan ]
A good man will as soon run into a fire as a quarrel. [ Proverb ]
None but cats and dogs are allowed to quarrel in my house. [ Proverb ]
Persons unmask their evilest qualities when they do quarrel. [ George Herbert ]
If the frog and mouse quarrel, the kite will see them a greed. [ Proverb ]
We quarrel with unfortunates to be exempted from pitying them. [ Vauvenargues ]
We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them. [ Vauvenargues ]
When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame. [ Goethe ]
When the frog and mouse would take up the quarrel, the kite decided it. [ Proverb ]
So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man. [ J. C. Ryle ]
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves. [ Daniel Webster ]
I thought your love eternal. Was it tied so loosely that a quarrel could divide? [ Dryden ]
Beware of entrance to a quarrel; but, being in, bear it, that the opposer may beware of thee. [ William Shakespeare ]
It requires two indiscreet persons to institute a quarrel; one individual cannot quarrel alone. [ Aime-Martin ]
Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Let go quarrel and contention, nor embroil thyself in trouble and differences by being over-solicitous in thy own defence. [ Thomas à Kempis ]
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is a civil war, and in all such contentions, triumphs are defeats. [ Colton ]
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 devils face. [ George MacDonald ]
Not a Red Indian, hunting by Lake Winnipeg, can quarrel with his squaw, but the whole world must smart for it. Will not the price of beaver rise? [ Carlyle ]
Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy: on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in either to quarrel, and most so about their inheritance. [ Landor ]
Literature, when noble, is not easy; only when ignoble. It too is a quarrel and internecine duel with the whole world of darkness that lies without one and within one; - rather a hard fight at times. [ Carlyle ]
To see each other, to profess to love each other, to prove it, to quarrel, to hate, then to separate, that one may seek a new love: this is the history of a moment, and of every day in the comedy of the world. [ De Varennes ]
Whatever mitigates the woes or increases the happiness of others is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity. One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality. [ Goldsmith ]
Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and considering the thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but once. [ Sir Thomas Browns ]