Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.

Bad quarrels come when two people are wrong. Worse quarrels come when two people are right.

The best of friends fall out, and so his teeth had done some years ago.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

No, Mom. I said fine." "It's just your tone." Ah, yes- the tone. The nasty traitor.

In real life, it takes only one to make a quarrel.

Yes, but I am afraid he well get us into some quarrel.

No quarrel ought ever be converted into a policy.

Through over-long contention the truth is lost

As men are killed by fighting, the truth is lost in disputing.

When men understand what each other mean, they see for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. Anybody can behave well when things are going smoothly.

Most of the people who have complaints with me aren't reading me.

Well, I don't want to say mad, but there was 'heated' exchanges back in the closing days of OVW when I said that I was running our own business there in OVW and they said, no, we are running their storage closet. They didn't actually say that, but that was how they treated it.

Ain't no problem with me and Kevin Gates; everybody just trippin'.

I have, at times, not been totally on the same page as some of my previous partners in crime.

Conflict, when mismanaged, destroys.

The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.

In quarreling, the truth is always lost.

It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel.

In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love.

In excess altercation, truth is lost.

If somebody feels a certain way about me and I feel like they're misunderstanding me, I don't need to explain myself. I just try to shy away from it and just pretend like it never happened, and try to rekindle the friendship and let him know that its not like that.

Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms, rather than things; and, secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about.

In all matters of opinion and science ... the difference between men is ... oftener found to lie in generals than in particulars; and to be less in reality than in appearance. An explication of the terms commonly ends the controversy, and the disputants are surprised to find that they had been quarrelling, while at bottom they agreed in their judgement.