O we fell out, I know not why.
And kiss'd again with tears. [ Tennyson ]
Those who in quarrels interpose.
Must often wipe a bloody nose. [ Gay ]
Old reckonings make new quarrels. [ Proverb ]
He that hath lands hath quarrels. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Jars concealed are half reconciled. [ Thomas Fuller ]
Quarrels of lovers renew their love. [ Terence ]
Quarrels of lovers - renewals of love. [ Proverb ]
An ill labourer quarrels with his tools. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
I won't quarrel with my bread and butter. [ Swift ]
In a false quarrel there is no true valor. [ William Shakespeare ]
A fair wife and a frontier castle breed quarrels. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands. [ Sheridan ]
This day shall change all griefs and quarrels into love. [ William Shakespeare ]
Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat. [ William Shakespeare ]
Women always find their bitterest foes among their own sex. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
In all thy quarrels, leave open the door of reconciliation. [ Old Persian Saying ]
Quarrels could not last long, were but prudence on one side. [ Proverb ]
Persons unmask their evilest qualities when they do quarrel. [ George Herbert ]
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them. [ Vauvenargues ]
Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels. [ Voltaire ]
When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame. [ Goethe ]
If he had two ideas in his head, they would fall out with each other. [ Johnson ]
The best quarrels, in the heat, are cursed by those that feel their sharpness. [ William Shakespeare ]
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 ]
The quarrels of lovers are like summer showers that leave the country more verdant and beautiful. [ Mme. Necker ]
The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms: everything is more beautiful when they have passed. [ Madame Necker ]
Contention, like a horse full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose, and bears down all before him. [ William Shakespeare ]
In love quarrels, the party that loves the most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault. [ Sir Walter Scott ]
He that blows the coals in quarrels he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. [ Ben. Franklin ]
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 ]
When worthy men fall out, only one of them may be faulty at the first; but if strife continue long, commonly both become guilty. [ Fuller ]
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 ]
I consider your very testy and quarrelsome people in the same light as I do a loaded gun, which may, by accident, go off and kill one. [ William Shenstone ]
Coarse kindness is at least better than coarse anger; and in all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of its dullness. [ George Eliot ]
Drinking of wine brings poverty, shame, quarrels; leads to calumnious talk, unchastity, murder, and the loss of freedom, of honor, of understanding. [ Tosafot ]
I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. This appears from the quarrels to which indiscreet reports occasionally give rise. [ Pascal ]
Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms rather than things; and, secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about. [ Colton ]
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 ]