quarrel

f. kavga etmek
i. tartışma

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

The North Wind and the Sun had a quarrel about which of them was the stronger.

Don't you see that you alternately give him credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth.

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.
Lionel Trilling

I would fain have rebelled, but felt that in the present state of things it would be madness to quarrel openly with the Count whilst I am so absolutely in his power.

It is said the quarrel grew out of the persecution the race of Geese suffered at the teeth of the Fox family.

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
William Shakespeare

For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.
Edgar Watson Howe

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
Blaise Pascal

'I don't think they play at all fairly,' Alice began, in rather a complaining tone, 'and they all quarrel so dreadfully one can't hear oneself speak-and they don't seem to have any rules in particular; at least, if there are, nobody attends to them-and you've no idea how confusing it is all the things being alive; for instance, there's the arch I've got to go through next walking about at the other end of the ground-and I should have croqueted the Queen's hedgehog just now, only it ran away when it saw mine coming!'

And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because I was concerned in it.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

You should not quarrel with your neighbour, for he will remain where he is, but your high handedness will become the talk of the people.
Abu Bakr

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.
Edward F. Halifax

Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.
George Etherege

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
Thomas Jefferson

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
Saint Francis de Sales

Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw.
John McCrae

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.
Mary Baker Eddy

In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence of a kind quite different from what is possible today.
Herman Kahn

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