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I can't imagine a human being so hard up for something to do as to quarrel with me. - Joseph Conrad (Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski) Those who in quarrels interpose, Must often wipe a bloody nose. - John Gay, Fables--The Mastiffs (l. 1) Those glorious days, when man said to man, Let us be brothers, or I will knock you down. [Fr., L'aimable siecle ou l'homme dit a l'homme, Soyons freres, ou je t'assomme.] - Gilliaume Pigault Lebrun (Gilliaume Pigault-Lebrun ) A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party: there is no battle unless there be two. [Lat., Cadit statim simultas, ab altera parte deserta; nisi pariter, non pugnant.] - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), De Ira (II, 34) O sir, we quarrel in print, by the book, as you have books for good manners. I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct. All these you may avoid but the Lie Direct, and you may avoid that too, with an If. I knew when seven justices could not take up a quarrel, but when the parties were met themselves, one of tem thought but of an If: as, 'If you said so, then I said so'; and they shook hands and swore brothers. Your If is the only peacemaker. Much virtue in If. - William Shakespeare, As You Like It (Touchstone at V, iv) Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find a quarrel in a straw When honor's at the stake. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at IV, iv) In a false quarrel there is no true valor. - William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (Benedick at V, i) 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. What eye but such an eye would spy out such a quarrel? 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 quarreling. Thou hast quarrelled with a man for coughing in the street, because he hath wakened thy dog that hath lain asleep in in the sun. Didst thou fall out with a tailor for wearing his new doublet before Easter? with another for tying his new shoes with old riband? And yet thou wilt tutor me from quarreling! - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Mercutio at III, i) The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands; we should only spoil it by trying to explain it. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Rivals (act IV, sc. 3) I won't quarrel with my bread and butter. - Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation (dialogue I) O we fell out, I know not why, And kiss'd again with tears. - Lord Alfred Tennyson, The Princess (canto II, song) Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire), A Philosophical Dictionary--Weaknesses of Both Sides Let dogs delight to bark and bite, For God hath made them so; Let bears and loons grown and fight, For 'tis their nature too. - Isaac Watts, Against Quarreling But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes. - Isaac Watts, Divine Songs for Children--Against Quarreling and Fighting
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