(96 quotes found)
“Don't go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst”
Benjamin Franklin
“Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.”
Andre Gide
“The bad gardener quarrels with his rake”
American Proverb
“From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.”
Cato The Elder
“Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.”
Thomas Carlyle
“He who quarrels with a drunken man injures the absent”
Proverb
“A bad worker quarrels with his tools”
“It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.”
W. R. Inge
“It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed insoluble in a finite period should exhibit one mechanism, the semantic mechanism of identification -- the discovery of which makes universal agreement possible, in mathematics and in life.”
Alfred Korzybski
“I never take my own side in a quarrel”
Robert Frost
