14 quotes found
"But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake."
"In a false quarrel there is no true valour."
"Thou! why, thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more, or a hair less, in his beard than thou hast: thou wilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts, having no other reason but because thou hast hazel eyes."
"Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat."
"I won't quarrel with my bread and butter."
"All quarrels halt at the grave."
"Those who in quarrels interpose, Must often wipe a bloody nose."
"L'aimable siècle où l'homme dit à l'homme, Soyons frères, ou je t'assomme."
"Cadit statim simultas, ab altera parte deserta; nisi pariter, non pugnant."
"The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands; we should only spoil it by trying to explain it."
"O we fell out, I know not why, And kiss'd again with tears."
"Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels."
"Let dogs delight to bark and bite, For God hath made them so; Let bears and lions growl and fight, For 'tis their nature too."
"But children you should never let Such angry passions rise, Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes."