A Quote by Cato the Elder

From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.

Cato the Elder

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Quarrel Sometimes Springs Words

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Cato the Elder
Roman - Statesman
234 BC - 149 BC

We do not want churches because they will teach us to quarrel about God. We do not want to learn that. We may quarrel with men sometimes about things on this earth, but we never quarrel about the Great Spirit. We do not want to learn that.

Chief Joseph

What is the good of words if they aren't important enough to quarrel over? Why do we choose one word more than another if there isn't any difference between them? If you called a woman a chimpanzee instead of an angel, wouldn't there be a quarrel about a word? If you're not going to argue about words, what are you going to argue about? Are you going to convey your meaning to me by moving your ears? The Church and the heresies always used to fight about words, because they are the only thing worth fighting about.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.

Oscar Wilde

Ever since I got back surgery, everything in my life has been about reduction. I've got the lightest backpack I can carry and the lightest MacBook.

Jim James

It seems to me very important to begin by an indication of the darkest values (assuming that the canvas is white), and to continue in order to the lightest value. From the darkest to the lightest I would establish twenty shades...

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us.

Eric Hoffer

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

William Butler Yeats

A lover's quarrel is always about every quarrel you ever had.

Robert Breault

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

It requires two indiscreet persons to institute a quarrel; one individual cannot quarrel alone.

Aime Martin

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

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

Soren Kierkegaard

Sometimes I use words to throw you from once scene to the other, and sometimes I use words to pull you from one scene to the other. You might not be aware of it, but I may have overlapping words one way or the other. So, I'm actually using words.

Fred Schepisi

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Albert Einstein

Words are tricky. Sometimes you need them to bring out the hurt festering inside. If you don't, it turns gangrenous and kills you. . . . But sometimes words can break a feeling into pieces.