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I against my brother I and my brother against our cousin, my brother and our cousin against the neighbors all of us against the foreigner.
-Arabic Proverb
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Wise men do not quarrel with each other.
-Danish proverb
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Better be quarrelling than lonesome.
-Proverb
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Acts of kindness may soon be forgotten, but the memory of an offense remains.
-Proverb
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People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
-Abigail Van Buren
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The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have missed something -- war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce.
-G. K. Chesterton
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
-G. K. Chesterton
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I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.
-Princess of Wales Diana
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In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
-Paul Dirac
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Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies by any certain witnesses, nor judges. But as long as they go towards peace, that is Truth, it is no matter which way.
-John Donne
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The falling out of faithful friends, renewing is of love.
-Richard Edwardes
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In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
-George Eliot
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
-George Eliot
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
-William Faulkner
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A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
-St. Francis De Sales
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Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
-Robert Frost
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Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
-Baltasar Gracian
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If you are losing a tug-of-war with a tiger, give him the rope before he gets to your arm. You can always buy a new rope.
-Max Gunther
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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.
-Benjamin Haydon
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The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel -- and all of them are right.
-Heinrich Heine
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I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
-Ernest Hemingway
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
-Edward W. Howe
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My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.
-Mother Jones
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He who attacks must vanquish. He who defends must merely survive.
-Master Kahn
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Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.
-John Keats
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Books about Fight, Fighting
