Sayings about Quarrel
It takes two to make a quarrel, but only one to end it. ~ Spanish Proverb
Quarrels end, but words once spoken never die. ~ Sierra Leonean Proverbs
Quarrels do not last long if the wrong is only on one side. ~ French Proverbs
A quarrel is like buttermilk: once it’s out of the churn, the more you shake it, the more sour it grows. ~ Irish Proverbs
Women’s quarrels cause the men’s wars. ~ Japanese Proverbs
With man comes the quarrel. ~ Ethiopian Proverbs
Wise men do not quarrel with each other. ~ Danish Proverbs
Who seeks a quarrel will find it near at hand. ~ Italian Proverbs
When two quarrel both are in the wrong. ~ Dutch Proverbs
When two men quarrel, the one who yields first displays the nobler character. ~ Hebrew Proverb
When shepherds quarrel, the wolf has a winning game. ~ German Proverbs
To quarrel with a man of good speech is better than to converse with a man who does not speak well. ~ Sanskrit Proverbs
Three glasses of wine end a hundred quarrels. ~ Chinese Proverbs
They quarrel about an egg and let the hen fly. ~ German Proverbs
There’s nothing worse than a person looking for a quarrel. ~ Serbian Proverbs
The truth is half a quarrel. ~ Indian Proverbs
The quarrel that doesn’t concern you is pleasant to hear about. ~ Nigerian Proverbs
The quarrel of the sheep doesn’t concern the goats. ~ African Proverb
The noblemen’s quarrels can be read on the backs of the peasants. ~ Russian Proverbs
The bad plowman quarrels with his oxen. ~ Korean Proverbs
The bad gardener quarrels with his rake. ~ American Proverbs
Teeth will never quarrel with the tongue. ~ Ivorian Proverbs
Talking of an old debt always starts another quarrel. ~ Catalonian Proverbs
No marriage contract is made without a quarrel. ~ Hebrew Proverb
Mine and thine are the sources of all quarrels. ~ Danish Proverb
Lovely women, lovely quarrels. ~ Native American Proverb
It is a bad plowman that quarrels with his ox. ~ Korean Proverb
If you tell people to live together, you tell them to quarrel. ~ Congolese Proverbs
If you live in Rome, don’t quarrel with the Pope. ~ French Proverb
If there is only one earring among seven daughters, there will always be a quarrel on festival days. ~ Tibetan Proverbs
If cooks quarrel, the roast burns. ~ Chinese Proverb
I against my brother I and my brother against our cousin, my brother and our cousin against the neighbors all of us against the foreigner. ~ Bedouin Proverbs
Even Buddhist priests of the same temple quarrel occasionally. ~ Senegalese Proverbs
Don’t meddle with a family feud. ~ African Proverb
Bread and salt never quarrel. ~ Russian Proverb
Beware a rickety wall, a savage dog, and a quarrelsome person. ~ Iranian Proverb
Better be quarrelling than lonesome. ~ Irish Proverb
Beauty and chastity are always quarreling. ~ Spanish Proverb
An heir also inherits quarrels. ~ Namibian Proverb
An answer that does not resolve a quarrel makes a thousand new ones. ~ Chinese Proverb
An altercation is like buttermilk — the more you stir it, the sourer it gets. ~ Bolivian Proverbs
A good swordsman is not given to quarrel. ~ French Proverb
A bad workman quarrels with his tools. ~ Romanian Proverbs
Quotations about Quarrels
I thought your love eternal. Was it tied so loosely that a quarrel could divide? ~ John Dryden
It requires two indiscreet persons to institute a quarrel; one individual cannot quarrel alone. ~ Aime Martin
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. ~ Benjamin Franklin
We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them. ~ Luc de Clapier de Vauvanargues
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side. ~ Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Women always find their bitterest foes among their own sex. ~ John Petit-Senn
The falling out of faithful friends, renewing is of love. ~ Richard Edwardes
The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next. ~ William Faulkner
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. ~ George Eliot
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 devil’s face. ~ George MacDonald
Persons unmask their evilest qualities when they do quarrel. ~ George Herbert
When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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
In love quarrels the party that loves the most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault. ~ Sir Walter Scott
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
The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. ~ George Bernard Shaw Quoutes
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
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
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
In quarreling, the truth is always lost. ~ Publilius Syrus
The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms; everything is more beautiful when they have passed. ~ Madame Suzanne Curchod Necker
The best quarrels, in the heat, are cursed by those that feel their sharpness. ~ William Shakespeare
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. ~ William Butler Yeats
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
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is a civil war, and in all such contentions, triumphs are defeats. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
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
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship. ~ St. Francis De Sales
For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone. ~ Edgar Watson Howe
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two. ~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Lovers quarrels are the renewal of love. ~ Terence
The Quarrel Of The Age: The Life And Times Of William Hazlitt. ~ Book preview