Quarrels Quotes

• I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

  Winston Churchill

  Time, Lost Love, Future

  "Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat: The Speeches of Winston Churchill".

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• 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

  War, History, Facts

  Aldous Huxley (2001). “Complete Essays: 1936-1938”, Ivan R Dee

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• I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong.

  Muhammad Ali

  Boxing, Great Boxing, Viet Cong

  Thomas Hauser, Muhammad Ali (1996). “Muhammad Ali in perspective”, Harpercollins

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• A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Men, Spirit

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786”, p.400, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Some do not understand that we must die, But those who do realize this settle their quarrels.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Realizing, Settling

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• Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

  Daniel Webster

  Truth, Lying, Liars

  Daniel Webster (1830). “Speeches and Forensic Arguments”, p.487

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• 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

  Talking, Weakness, Our Actions

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• Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Past, Men

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Blow, Self Control, Complaining

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• Persons unmask their evilest qualities when they do quarrel.

  George Herbert

  Quality, Persons

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• People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fear, People, Atheism

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• 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.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Two, Firsts, Term

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.206

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• If you cannot avoid a quarrel with a blackguard, let your lawyer manage it, rather than yourself. No man sweeps his own chimney, but employs a chimney-sweeper, who has no objection to dirty work, because it is his trade.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Dirty, Men, Lawyer

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.168

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• The longer a man lives in this world the more he must be convinced that all domestic quarrels had better never be obtruded on the public; for, let the husband be right, or let him be wrong, there is always a sympathy existing for women which is certain to give the man the worst of it.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Husband, Men, Giving

  Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.369

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• 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

  Eggs, Meat, Beaten

  William Shakespeare (1803). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.133

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• We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Self Esteem, War, Loser

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.189

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• 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

  Children, Parent, Psychology

  Sigmund Freud (1962). “Three essays on the theory of sexuality”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.

  Walter Benjamin

  Book, Debate, Harlots

  Walter Benjamin (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.51, Harvard University Press

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• It requires two indiscreet persons to institute a quarrel; one individual cannot quarrel alone.

  Aime Martin

  Two, Individual, Persons

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• In love quarrels the party that loves the most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault.

  Walter Scott

  Party, Faults, Acknowledge

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• In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

  William Shakespeare

  Argument, Valor

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 5, sc. 1, l. [121]

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• How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.

  Neville Chamberlain

  Country, War, People

  Radio broadcast, 27 Sept. 1938

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• In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

  George Eliot

  Nature, Literature, Privacy

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2264, ShandonPress

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• 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

  War, Fall, Reason

  Michel de Montaigne (1964). “Selected essays of Montaigne: in the translation of John Florio”

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