Quality
- We are never so ridiculous by the qualities we have, as by those we affect to have.
-- François de La Rochefoucauld
- Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
-- Juvenal
- Nothing endures but personal qualities.
-- Walt Whitman
- The best is the cheapest.
-- Benjamin Franklin
- There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper.
-- John Ruskin
- It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
- I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is softness of head.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
Quarrel
- Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy.
-- Elbert Hubbard
- In quarrelling the truth is always lost.
-- Publilius Syrus
- A long dispute means that both parties are wrong.
-- Voltaire
- When chickens quit quarrelling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them. I wonder if it might not be the same with the human race.
-- Don Marquis
- Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.
-- Robert Lynd
- I never take my own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost
- He that blows the coals in quarrels he has nothing to do with has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.
-- Benjamin Franklin
- Two cannot fall out if one does not choose.
-- Spanish Proverb
- People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton
- When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless!
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Those who in quarrels interpose,
Must often wipe a bloody nose.
-- John Gay
Question
- Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
-- Voltaire
- He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
-- Voltaire
- A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.
-- English Proverb
- Man will not live without answers to his questions.
-- Hans J. Morgenthau
- No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
-- Charles Steinmetz
- No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
-- George Bernard Shaw
- A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
-- Francis Bacon
- I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater
- By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
-- George Santayana
Quiet
- An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
-- Walter Bagehot
- Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
- If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
-- John Bunyan
- Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Quiet is what home would be without children.
-- Anonymous
- God gives quietness at last.
-- John Greenleaf Whittier
- The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
-- Euripides
- Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows.
-- Kin Hubbard
- To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self
-- Hamilton Mabie
Quotation
- He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
-- Orson Welles
- Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
-- Jean Rostand
- I didn't say that I didn't say it. I said that I didn't say that I said it. I want to make that very clear.
-- George Romney
- You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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