#quarrels

It is my rule never to take a side in any part in the quarrels of others, nor to inquire into them. I generally presume them to flow from the indulgence of too much passion on both sides, & always find that each party thinks all the wrong was in his adversary. These bickerings, which are always useless, embitter human life more than any other cause... ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#quarrels #life

The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#love-pain #lovers-breakup #lovers-quarrels #romantic-tragedy #love

...You should make someone a wonderful husband." Even the tips of Jamie's ears were crimson now. But instead of retreating, he clenched his jaw and looked directly into her eyes. "I suppose I would," he said. "Are you interested? ↗

— Bruce Coville

#humor #lovers-quarrels #marriage #marriage

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

#anybody #conflicts #conventions #criminal #end

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#aches #any #because #bitter #enough

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

— Voltaire

#both sides #know #motto #quarrels #sides

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding. ↗

— Andre Gide

#misunderstanding #most #quarrels

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

#beings #condemned #conventions #fact #human

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive. ↗

— Antisthenes

#arise #bridal #excessive #gifts #marriages

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#around #bonds #burst #caught #eager