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Quotes About Quarrels

The coroner and the lawyer grow fat on the quarrels of fools.
~ Proverb
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
~ Wendell Phillips
Simple equally weighted formulas based on existing statistics or on common sense are often very good predictors of significant outcomes. In a memorable example, Dawes showed that marital stability is well predicted by a formula: frequency of lovemaking minus frequency of quarrels You don't want your result to be a negative number.
~ Daniel Kahneman
The explanation is a simple availability bias: both spouses remember their own individual efforts and contributions much more clearly than those of the other, and the difference in availability leads to a difference in judged frequency. The bias is not necessarily self-serving: spouses also overestimated their contribution to causing quarrels, although to a smaller extent than their contributions to more desirable outcomes. The
~ Daniel Kahneman
If you're the first of November, you're Scorpio. A large reporter of his owne Acts. Prudent of behaviour in owne affairs. A lover of Quarrels and theevery, a promoter of frayes and commotions. As wavery as the wind; neither fearing God or caring for Man.' 'Better,' said Lymond coldly, 'to be stung by a nettle than pricked by a rose.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
You are lucky, Renisenb. You have found the happiness that is inside everybody's own heart. To most women, happiness means coming and going, busied over small affairs. It is care for one's children and laughter and conversation and quarrels with other women and alternate love and anger with a man. It is made up of small things strung together like beads on a string.
~ Agatha Christie
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
~ Aldous Huxley
The more borders we have, the more quarrels, the more wars. That's one way to think about borders - they're trouble.
~ Robert Krulwich
As long as the Pentagon bankrolls the Pakistan army to fight its wars, and NATO troops remain in Afghanistan, there will be quarrels, charges of infidelity, a reduction in the household allowance, perhaps a separation - but a divorce? Never.
~ Tariq Ali
Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.
~ Jane Austen
Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.
~ Xunzi
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
~ George Eliot
our quarrels with the world are like our quarrels with God: no matter how right we are, we are wrong.
~ Randall Jarrell
History writes the word 'Reconciliation' over all her quarrels.
~ Jan Smuts
Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.
~ Robert Staughton Lynd
Not again, Draper, " Frank sighed. "You're not going to stop us from crossing. You and I know that the one thing the Government does even more poorly than provide healthcare is secure its borders.
~ Randy Quarles, Olsen's Nation
History writes the word 'Reconciliation' over all her quarrels.
~ Jan Smuts
When the abuse is mutual, it dissolves of its own accord, the way it does in quarrels between brothers and sister when they are still young. Or else it accumulates, until the next time
~ Javier Marías
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
~ Aldous Huxley
Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat.
~ William Shakespeare
Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.
~ Xun Zi
there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it was a human world.
~ Orson Scott Card
A happy love is full of quarrels, you know.
~ Jean Anouilh
The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.
~ Jean Racine