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A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.

Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires.

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding.

Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves.

Lovers quarrels are the renewal of love.

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.

Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

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.