Fhairshon swore a feud Against the clan M,Tavish; Marched into their land To murder and to rafish; For he did resolve To extirpate the vipers, With four-and-twenty men And five-and-thirty pipers. β William Edmondstoune Aytoun
The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love. β African Proverbs
Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive. β Antisthenes
Why do men fight who were born to be brothers? β James Longstreet
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two. β Seneca The Elder
The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes. β Michel de Montaigne
A long dispute means that both parties are wrong β Voltaire
The hatred of relatives is the most violent. β Tacitus
I've had the most incredible luck in my career. β Richard Dawson
If I never do another thing, I've met the good sweet people of the world. β Sayings
I never presumed to tell anyone who could make a rainbow what color to make children. β Richard Dawson
Triumphant Tories, and desponding Whigs,
Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs. β Jonathan Swift
Feud Image Quotes
Family Feud Quotes
If you're familiar with the famous Hatfield-McCoy family feud back in the 1860s, '70s and '80s in the United States, my family was an integral part of that. β James David Vance
Shakespeare wrote about love. I write about love. Shakespeare wrote about gang warfare, family feuds and revenge. I write about all the same things. β Sister Souljah
The first time I ever saw people of any color was when D-Day left from my hometown in England, to go and free Europe from the war. And there was every color you could imagine, and I'd not seen that in England. β Richard Dawson
There were people I know that got upset that I kiss people. I kiss them for luck and love, that's all. That's what my mother did to me. β Richard Dawson
The Pashtun tribes are always engaged in private or public war. Every man is a warrior, a politician and a theologian Every large house is a real feudal fortress....Eve ry family cultivates its vendetta; every clan, its feud....Nothing is ever forgotten and very few debts are left unpaid. β Winston Churchill
The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law. β V. S. Naipaul
To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other's hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time. β Clara Ortega
A shivery, delicious Southern Gothic with feuding families, dark spirits, ancient curses and caught up in the middle, a young girl learning to live and love for the first time. Atmospheric and suspenseful, Compulsion will draw you in and hold you until the very last page. β Leah Cypess
Thereβs a reason Mia is currently an only child. Family drama takes on a whole new meaning when theyβre feuding gods who canβt stand the sight of each other and always try to kill one another whenever theyβre in the same room.β β Kat β Sherrilyn Kenyon
You know I love a good family feud and I carry a big stick. β Kami Garcia
Feudalism Quotes
The reason why China suffers bitterly from endless wars is because of the existence of feudal lords and kings. β Qin Shi Huang
Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is development by refinement from slavery . Capitalism is but the gentlemen's method of slavery. β Kwame Nkrumah
I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence. β Eugene V. Debs
We always said that our struggle was not only against the British as representatives of colonialism, it was against all the evil that existed in India. The evil of the feudal system, the evil of the system based on caste, the evil of economic injustice. β Indira Gandhi
You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism. β Alexander Haig
In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show. β Timothy Leary
Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word. β Barbara Amiel
In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism. β C. L. R. James
The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces. β Lawrence Lessig
We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery. β Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don'Βt think there was one. I can'Βt name one. Not because I had a lot of great feuds, but it would be hard to say the defining feud. β Ric Flair
It's important to me that on 'Family Feud' I could kiss all the people. It sounds crazy but when I first came here Petula Clark was on a show with Nat King Cole and he kissed her on the cheek and eighty-one stations in the South canceled him. I kissed black women daily and nightly on 'Family Feud' and the world didn't come to an end, did it? β Richard Dawson
If the time comes when our culture tires of the endless homicidal feuds, despairs of the use of force and war as a means of bringing peace, becomes discontent with the half-lives that its members are living - only then will our culture seriously look for alternatives. β Carl Rogers
I like all kinds of wrestling, I like pro wrestling, so if there's a guy I've been feuding with for over a year, and damn it, the only thing left to do is beat the crap out of each other in a steel cage, then it's time to do it. β CM Punk
I have no feud, either with my employers, any sponsors, or with the professional critics of radio and television. But I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage. β Edward R. Murrow
We'd better work hard on getting rid of that must - Other people must do what I want them to do!" It's what makes people hostile, nasty, mean and combative, and it leads to feuds, wars and genocide. We'd better do something about that. β Albert Ellis
I want to manufacture a feud. β Rob Corddry
The ancient feud between cat and dog is not forgotten in the north, for the Lynx is the deadly foe of the Fox and habitually kills it when there is soft snow and scarcity of easier prey. β Ernest Thompson Seton
A feud should live a full and colorful life, and then it should die a natural death and be forgotten. β Paul Newman
Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true. β Oliver Reed
Religious fanaticism has clearly produced, and in all probability will continue to produce, enormous amounts of bickering, fighting, violence, bloodshed, homicide, feuds, wars, and genocide. β Albert Ellis
When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood. β Daniel Webster
Active nonviolence of the brave puts to flight thieves, dacoits, murderers, and prepares an army of volunteers ready to sacrifice themselves in quelling riots, in extinguishing fires and feuds, and so on. β Mahatma Gandhi
Christianity...made, for nearly 1,500 years, persecution, religious wars, massacres, theological feuds and bloodshed, heresy huntings and heretic burnings, prisons, dungeons, anathemas, curses, opposition to science, hatred of liberty, spiritual bondage, the life without love or laughter. β M. M. Mangasarian
Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds β T. H. White
The gleam in their eyes telegraphs only too clearly that they are hoping for a headline, which of course means something disparaging, because nothing makes such good copy as a feud. β Leslie Charteris
[On The Philippines:] ... eighty dialects and languages are spoken; we are a fragmented nation of loyal believers, divided by blood feuds and controlled by the Church. β Jessica Hagedorn
We should learn from children not to hold grudges. Children often fight when they play together but they quickly make up and their fights don't deteriorate into bitter feuds. β Joseph Wechsberg
Oh, I have this feud going with the L.A. Unified School District, because I keep getting these phone calls saying my daughter keeps missing classes, I mean, at all hours of the night, I had like, two calls this morning and I keep calling saying I haven't got a daughter! β Chris Colfer
Children were vehicles for passing things along. These things could be kingdoms, rich wedding gifts, stories, grudges, blood feuds. Through children, alliances were forged; through children, wrongs were avenged. To have a child was to set loose a force in the world. β Margaret Atwood
In the past I've had public feuds with people, and I have really not benefited from any of them. The feud with Eminem did kind of torpedo my career in the United States, but it also introduced me to Middle America in a way I never could have conceived of. β Moby
When a maniac is at the door, feuding brothers reconcile. β Peter Kreeft
The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses. β Carolyn Parkhurst
The drug lord is on the run. His name is El Chapo. Donald Trump is in a Twitter feud with this Mexican drug lord. It's historic - the first time Americans have ever sided with a Mexican drug lord. β Conan O'Brien
One of the most fruitless, irritating wastes in the world is arguing-the contentious, endless kind of arguing that is akin to quarreling, and causes feuding in families and among friends, and leaves resentful feeling in homes, in hearts, in businesses and professions, and in all kinds of gatherings in public and private places, and in all relationships of life-and with so little that it ever seems to settle! β Sayings
We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years. β Winston Churchill
Our culture is set up on a feud mentality, or a "Housewives" mentality, that women just fight. And it's such a shallow way to exist as far as our evolution is concerned, and our culture is concerned. It's fun to watch women fight, in a storytelling way, but in the world, women shouldn't be seen as a threat to other women. β Laura Linney
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