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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Quarreling |
| Those who in quarrels interpose, Must often wipe a bloody nose. Gay—Fables. The Mastiffs. L. 1. | 1 |
| L’aimable siècle où l’homme dit à l’homme, Soyons frères, ou je t’assomme. Those glorious days, when man said to man, Let us be brothers, or I will knock you down. Le Brun. | 2 |
| Cadit statim simultas, ab altera parte deserta; nisi pariter, non pugnant. A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party: there is no battle unless there be two. Seneca—De Ira. II. 34. | 3 |
| But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour’s at the stake. Hamlet. Act IV. Sc. 4. L. 55. | 4 |
| In a false quarrel there is no true valour. Much Ado About Nothing. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 120. | 5 |
| 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. Romeo and Juliet. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 18. | 6 |
| Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat. Romeo and Juliet. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 23. | 7 |
| The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands; we should only spoil it by trying to explain it. R. B. Sheridan—The Rivals. Act IV. Sc. 3. | 8 |
| I won’t quarrel with my bread and butter. Swift—Polite Conversation. Dialogue I. | 9 |
| O we fell out, I know not why, And kiss’d again with tears. Tennyson—The Princess. Canto II. Song. | 10 |
| Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels. Voltaire—A Philosophical Dictionary. Weakness on Both Sides. | 11 |
| 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. Isaac Watts—Against Quarrelling. | 12 |
| But children you should never let Such angry passions rise, Your little hands were never made To tear each other’s eyes. Isaac Watts—Against Quarrelling. | 13 |
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