There is an eternal dispute between those who imagine the world to suit their policy, and those who correct their policy to suit the realities of the world

When two men quarrel, the one who yields first displays the nobler nature.

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

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.

I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will not, for my content-sake, give it.

The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.