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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. (Quote by - William Ralph Inge)

If you cannot avoid a quarrel with a blackguard, let your lawyer manage it, rather than yourself. No man sweeps his own chimney, but employs a chimney-sweeper, who has no objection to dirty work, because it is his trade. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)

The longer a man lives in this world the more he must be convinced that all domestic quarrels had better never be obtruded on the public; for, let the husband be right, or let him be wrong, there is always a sympathy existing for women which is certain to give the man the worst of it. (Quote by - Benjamin Robert Haydon)

We march up, moody or good-tempered soldiers - we reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant human animals. (Quote by - Erich Maria Remarque)

Quarreling is like cutting water with a sword. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)

When two men quarrel, the one who yields first displays the nobler nature. (Quote by - The Talmud)

We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them. (Quote by - Luc de Clapier de Vauvanargues)

You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you. (Quote by - Leon Trotsky)

Those Rooks, dear, from morning till night, They seem to do nothing but quarrel and fight, And wrangle and jangle, and plunder. (Quote by - Dinah Maria Mulock)

Young men make wars and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage and hope for the future. Then old men make the peace, and the vices of peace are the vices of old men: mistrust and caution. (Quote by - Sir Alec Guinness)

One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly. (Quote by - Bertolt Brecht)

The word 'hero' has been bandied about a lot to refer to anyone killed in Afghanistan or Iraq. But anyone who voluntarily goes to Afghanistan or Iraq [as a soldier] is fighting for an evil cause under an evil commander in chief. (Quote by - Ted Rall)

How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a far away country between people of whom we know nothing. (Quote by - Neville Chamberlain)

When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)

Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels. (Quote by - Voltaire)

He that blows the coals in quarrels he has nothing to do with has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

I won't quarrel with my bread and butter. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)

The best quarrels, in the heat, are cursed by those that feel their sharpness. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party: there is no battle unless there be two. (Quote by - Seneca)

There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare. (Quote by - Sun Tzu)

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. (Quote by - William Butler Yeats)

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. (Quote by - George Orwell)

War is a catalogue of blunders. (Quote by - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill)

Coarse kindness is at least better than coarse anger; and in all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of its dullness. (Quote by - George Eliot)

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is a civil war, and in all such contentions, triumphs are defeats. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)

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