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| Avoid the first quarrel. (Good advice to a newly married couple as well as others.) | 1 |
| An old quarrel is easily renewed. Italian. | 2 |
* * * * Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in
Bear’t that the opposer may beware of thee. Shakespeare. | 3 |
Forbear a quarrel with a friend to move,
Anger breeds hatred, concord sweetens love. Dutch. | 4 |
Greatly to find quarrel in a straw
When honor’s at the stake. Shakespeare. | 5 |
| He that parts the fray goeth away with the blows. Massinger. | 6 |
| He who interferes with the quarrels of relations must pass through life without a friend. Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine. | 7 |
| He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent. (He that is drunk is gone from home.) Latin. | 8 |
| In a false quarrel there is no true valor. | 9 |
| Interfere not in the quarrels of others. | 10 |
| It is better to keep out of a quarrel than to make it up afterwards. | 11 |
| It takes two to make a quarrel. | 12 |
| No foolery like falling out. | 13 |
| None but cats and dogs are allowed to quarrel in my house. | 14 |
| Quarrels could not last long were but prudence one side. | 15 |
| The greatest quarrels do not always rise from deepest injuries. Terence. | 16 |
They who in quarrels interpose
Must often wipe a bloody nose. J. Gay. | 17 |
| Two cannot fall out if one does not choose. Spanish. | 18 |
| Two cocks in one yard do not agree. Italian. | 19 |
| Two crocodiles cannot live in one hole. West African. | 20 |
| Two dogs over one bone seldom agree. German, Dutch. | 21 |
| Two sparrows on one ear of wheat cannot agree. | 22 |
| When neighbors quarrel, lookers on are more apt to add fuel than water. Danish. | 23 |
| When one hits you with a stone, hit him with a piece of cotton. Turkish. | 24 |
| When one will not, two cannot quarrel. Spanish. | 25 |
| When two quarrel, both are in the wrong. Dutch. | 26 |
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