Quotes about Argument

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt. Votes: 5

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. Votes: 4

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. Votes: 4

Argument weak; speak loudly! Votes: 3

The Last Argument of Kings. Votes: 3

Argument is not always truth. Votes: 3

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding. Votes: 3

Debate is the death of conversation. Votes: 3

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument. Votes: 3

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. Votes: 3

Argument is the worst sort of conversation. Votes: 3

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Votes: 3

Argument should be polite as well as logical. Votes: 3

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. Votes: 3

An Argument needs no reason; Nor any friendship. Votes: 3

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence. Votes: 3

Argument does not soften, but rather hardens, the obdurate heart. Votes: 3

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff. Votes: 3

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it. Votes: 3

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. Votes: 3

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. Votes: 3

I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension. Votes: 3

I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained. Votes: 3

In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading. Votes: 3

Argument does not teach children or the immature. Only time and experience does that. Votes: 3

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it. Votes: 3

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing. Votes: 3

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. Votes: 3

Argument need not be heated; it can be punctuated with courteous smiles - or sympathetic tears. Votes: 3

Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear. Votes: 3

Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength; anger blows out the lamp of the mind. Votes: 3

When you're in the Middle of an Argument, ask yourself: Do I want to be Right or be Happy? Votes: 3

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you. Votes: 3

Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence. Votes: 3

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading. Votes: 3

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it. Votes: 3

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself. Votes: 3

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. Votes: 3

I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are too hard for me. Votes: 3

Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went. Votes: 3

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. Votes: 3

I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me. Votes: 3

Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own. Votes: 3

Silence is argument carried out by other means. Votes: 1

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions. Votes: 1

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate. Votes: 1

Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion. Votes: 1

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. Votes: 1

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better. Votes: 1

I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles. Votes: 1

But, you know, there's still an argument, there's still ten states that outlaw premarital sex, and many more states where adultery is still outlawed and a crime. Votes: 1

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy? Votes: 1

A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments that God has laid aside His mercy. Votes: 1

You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink. Votes: 1

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers. Votes: 1

We run into some pretty tough arguments sometimes, but the idea is that at the end of the day, my wife and I realize that we'll always be holding each other's hand. Votes: 1

Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the 'slippery slope': once we allow doctors to kill patients, we will not be able to limit the killing to those who want to die. Votes: 1

John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization. Votes: 1

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning. Votes: 1

The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument. Votes: 1

It does surprise me that intelligent people in the 21st century could claim that if you respond to the terrorists with force, you spawn terrorism, but if you appease them, you somehow tame them. This argument, as I said, is very interesting, and very surprising. Votes: 1

Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples? Votes: 1

Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery. Votes: 1

Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty. Votes: 1

I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so often there'll be something I can use later: a joke, a description, a quote. It's an invaluable aid when it comes to winning arguments. 'That's not what you said on February 3, 1996,' I'll say to someone. Votes: 1

When I have an argument with someone, even with someone I am not very close with, I can't sleep at night thinking about it. It's terrible. But I still manage speak out frankly because I have also been gifted with the ability to read people. I can sense when they start to get irritated with me, and then, I shift. Votes: 1

You have two choices with Obama. You either believe that he is a man of Christ... or you think he's a liar. And I'm surprised by the number of atheist free thinkers that support Obama, and their argument is essentially, 'He's lying about being religious 'cause you have to do that to get elected.' It's a horrible reason to like somebody. Votes: 1

Clear statement is argument. Votes: 0

Scholarship is polite argument. Votes: 0

Insight makes argument ridiculous. Votes: 0

My life is my argument. Votes: 0

The final argument of kings Votes: 0

Let argument bear no unmusical sound. Votes: 0

A gun is not an argument. Votes: 0

Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument. Votes: 0

Without argument the species would parish. Votes: 0

We must reinforce argument with results. Votes: 0

Follow the argument wherever it leads. Votes: 0

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument. Votes: 0

Truth springs from argument amongst friends. Votes: 0

Sophistry is the fallacy of argument. Votes: 0

Let your life be your argument. Votes: 0

History is an argument without end. Votes: 0

Love is a very compelling argument. Votes: 0

The argument is at an end. Votes: 0

Win through your actions, never through argument. Votes: 0

Good argument is intended to persuade another. Votes: 0

God's Word is its own best argument. Votes: 0

The climate change argument is absolute crap Votes: 0

Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent. Votes: 0

History is, indeed, an argument without end. Votes: 0

Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken. Votes: 0

The truth is always the strongest argument. Votes: 0

The idea comes before the logical argument. Votes: 0

A good life is a main argument. Votes: 0

Your argument is sound, nothing but sound. Votes: 0

Keep cool; anger is not an argument. Votes: 0

An argument which proves too much, proves nothing. Votes: 0

To every argument an equal argument is opposed, Votes: 0

The reductio ad absurdum is God's favorite argument. Votes: 0

You are the strongest argument, yet, against cloning. Votes: 0

Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief Votes: 0

The best argument is an undeniably good book. Votes: 0

Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument. Votes: 0

A good action is preferable to an argument. Votes: 0

I never remember my parents having an argument. Votes: 0

When God says something, the argument is over. Votes: 0

One can never win an argument with ignorance. Votes: 0

America is the longest argument in the world. Votes: 0

The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting. Votes: 0

Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument. Votes: 0

Since when was an emotional argument won by logic? Votes: 0

... so far as religion is concerned, argument is adjourned. Votes: 0

You could start an argument in an empty house. Votes: 0

Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies. Votes: 0

The best argument for anarchism is the twentieth century. Votes: 0

It was an argument of rare power and eloquence. Votes: 0

Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter. Votes: 0

If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument Votes: 0

Surely: the adverb of a man without an argument. Votes: 0

The argument of the strongest is always the best. Votes: 0

The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation. Votes: 0

The argument for collectivism is simple; free market is not. Votes: 0

To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization. Votes: 0

You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument. Votes: 0

Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect. Votes: 0

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always. Votes: 0

The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators. Votes: 0

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument. Votes: 0

Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally. Votes: 0

The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs. Votes: 0

Offense is what people take when they can't take argument. Votes: 0

This band has never had an argument. It's just amazing. Votes: 0

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. Votes: 0

First you win the argument, then you win the vote. Votes: 0

You never win an argument until they attack your person. Votes: 0

I decided that I would make my life my argument, Votes: 0

A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow. Votes: 0

Bigot: A person who wins an argument with a liberal. Votes: 0

If you want to stop an argument, close your mouth. Votes: 0

I have won every argument I ever had with myself. Votes: 0

You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree. Votes: 0

I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to. Votes: 0

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool. Votes: 0

Sometimes a word or an argument will trigger a poem. Votes: 0

My parents only had one argument in 45 years. It lasted 43 years. Votes: 0

The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth. Votes: 0

All information is treated equally; only an accurate argument will work. Votes: 0

All argument is against it; but all belief is for it. Votes: 0

With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument. Votes: 0

An argument can be made that relationship building is the treatment. Votes: 0

No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument. Votes: 0

Supporting a murderous political agenda with such an argument is tragic! Votes: 0

Geese are white, crows are black. No argument will change this. Votes: 0

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument. Votes: 0

A day without an argument is like an egg without salt. Votes: 0

The argument holds no water at all, not even a thimbleful. Votes: 0

You can not have an argument with a fully conscious person. Votes: 0

A fair-minded man tries to see both sides of an argument. Votes: 0

An ounce of algebra is worth a ton of verbal argument. Votes: 0

When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument. Votes: 0

Great God in Boots! – the ontological argument is sound! Votes: 0

For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words. Votes: 0

There is nothing that a New-Englander so nearly worships as an argument. Votes: 0

If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument. Votes: 0

That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong. Votes: 0

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance. Votes: 0

Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument. Votes: 0

A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive. Votes: 0

There is nothing like instances to grow hair on a bald-headed argument. Votes: 0

The Banh Mi sandwich is really the only good argument for colonialism. Votes: 0

You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition." Spoken by Abigail Adams Votes: 0

Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order. Votes: 0

A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument. Votes: 0

Then an argument would ensue because they were men with different ideas. Votes: 0

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. Votes: 0

When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument. Votes: 0

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one. Votes: 0

The fastest way to lose an argument is to lose your temper. Votes: 0

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one. Votes: 0

No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward Votes: 0

Hunger is the argument that is driving India to the spinning wheel. Votes: 0

Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind. Votes: 0

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it. Votes: 0

My ideal picture of citizenship will always be an argument, not a sing-along. Votes: 0

Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe. Votes: 0

Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument. Votes: 0

We argue with our biology, and the result of that argument is civilization. Votes: 0

It's a powerful instrument, dynamite -- nothing like it for a convincing argument! Votes: 0

In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel. Votes: 0

Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument. Votes: 0

A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight. Votes: 0

The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right. Votes: 0

My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Votes: 0

In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth. Votes: 0

I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk. Votes: 0

the heart of the backlash argument: women are better off 'protected' than equal. Votes: 0

The definition of a Racist is anybody winning an argument with a liberal. Votes: 0

A definition is the start of an argument, not the end of one. Votes: 0

The argument of danger only applies to those who live in relative safety. Votes: 0

I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem. Votes: 0

The weight of an argument may often be multiplied by making it specific Votes: 0

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem. Votes: 0

Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad. Votes: 0

The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument. Votes: 0

The bestway to diffuse an argument is to listen first, second, and last. Votes: 0

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers. Votes: 0

The abuse of a thing is no argument against the use of it. Votes: 0

Winning an argument is losing it as it makes the loser feel bad. Votes: 0

The underlying intellectual argument for seeking to tax economic rents retains its force. Votes: 0

A man sometimes wins an argument, but a woman always wins a silence. Votes: 0

The strongest argument in favor of the gospel is a loving and lovable Christian. Votes: 0

Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion. Votes: 0

Surely you do not believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof? Votes: 0

I read here and there in books, enjoying the examples and ignoring the argument. Votes: 0

The laissez-faire argument relies on the same tacit appeal to perfection as does communism. Votes: 0

A witty illustration or an apt story will accomplish more than columns of argument. Votes: 0

The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument. Votes: 0

That something can be used for good isn't necessarily a knockdown argument for it. Votes: 0

Because of racism, he can't govern effectively' is not a great argument for re-election. Votes: 0

Forget the Bible, the greatest argument against human evolution is a YouTube comment thread. Votes: 0

Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument. Votes: 0

Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering. Votes: 0

An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship. Votes: 0

If you want a good argument against democracy, spend five minutes with a voter. Votes: 0

The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's. Votes: 0

What is desire but the hard wire argument given to the mind's unstoppable mouth Votes: 0

A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest. Votes: 0

Let us begin to understand the argument. There is a solution to everything: Science. Votes: 0

My candidacy is a compelling argument for my candidacy. I want to be President. Votes: 0

An argument may remove doubt, but only the Holy Spirit can convict of truth. Votes: 0

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism. Votes: 0

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion. Votes: 0

When you let someone else win an argument, often you both end up winners. Votes: 0

A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands. Votes: 0

The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that. Votes: 0

Children key off their parents' reaction more than the argument or physical discipline itself. Votes: 0

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading. Votes: 0

In a family argument, if it turns out you are right, apologize at once. Votes: 0

The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas. Votes: 0

Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument. Votes: 0

Liberals are sometimes defined as people who can't take their own side in an argument. Votes: 0

The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics. Votes: 0

This self-defeating behavior, so the argument goes, must be the result of warped domestic politics. Votes: 0

the central argument of the backlash - that women's equality is responsible for women's unhappiness. Votes: 0

The argument from improbability, properly deployed, comes close to proving that God does not exist. Votes: 0

The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming. Votes: 0

Our willingness to openly reveal our feelings in our argument nearly always builds our credibility. Votes: 0

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof? Votes: 0

After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means. Votes: 0

An aim of an argument should be progress, but progress ultimately means little without victory. Votes: 0

Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong. -T-Shirt Votes: 0

You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable. Votes: 0

Successful argument is a communication between the acknowledged authority of both parties to the argument. Votes: 0

Nobody gets killed when they're happy. It always starts with an argument, or a debt. Votes: 0

I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument. Votes: 0

He who takes nature for his guide, is not easily beaten out of his argument Votes: 0

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. Votes: 0

Any argument that asserts that 'God did it' is a sign of a lazy mind. Votes: 0

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. Votes: 0

You can't talk about peace nor agreement while terror is used as the main argument. Votes: 0

A little experience is worth much argument; a few facts are better than any theory. Votes: 0

What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on? Votes: 0

More words ain't good for anything in the world only to bring on more argument. Votes: 0

In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause. Votes: 0

If a woman and a man who have an argument keep talking they keep fighting. Votes: 0

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding. Votes: 0

I never lose in any argument, because I always make sure that my opponent wins. Votes: 0

There are three sides to every argument. Yours. The other guy's. And the right side. Votes: 0

My argument is that charity does indeed start at home, but it doesn't stop there. Votes: 0

The god excuse, the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument. Votes: 0

I don't want to get into an argument with somebody about how they ought to vote. Votes: 0

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. Votes: 0

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument. Votes: 0

Most couples have not had hundreds of arguments; they've had the same argument hundreds of times. Votes: 0

The trial lawyer does what Socrates was executed for: making the worse argument appear the stronger. Votes: 0

Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance. Votes: 0

I think the three years have demonstrated how little this argument has to do with reality. Votes: 0

Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty. Votes: 0

The law compells no man to impossible things. The argument ab impossibili is forcible in law. Votes: 0

Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish. Votes: 0

Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed. Votes: 0

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. Votes: 0

Nothing will ruin an interesting intelligent argument more quickly than the arrival of a pretty girl. Votes: 0

No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights. Votes: 0

I'm merely trying to give you the sort of argument that would appeal to your intelligence. Votes: 0

There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes. Votes: 0

My argument is: keep the bloody bottom line at the bottom. That's where it should be. Votes: 0

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as a convincing argument, although every man thinks he has one. Votes: 0

I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it. Votes: 0

The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is. Votes: 0

He's the only man I know who could start an argument with himself. (on Craig Bellamy) Votes: 0

They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener; Votes: 0

The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically. Votes: 0

Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court. Votes: 0

However good an argument in philosophy may happen to be, it is generally not good enough. Votes: 0

Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions. Votes: 0

GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism. Votes: 0

The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side. Votes: 0

I've always felt that the placement of a man's testicles is an eloquent argument against intelligent design. Votes: 0

Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . . Votes: 0

Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument. Votes: 0

I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists Votes: 0

If one doesn't value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic? Votes: 0

I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists. Votes: 0

The moment that one person in an argument claims to be God, dialogue and debate become impossible. Votes: 0

History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else. Votes: 0

The biggest farce of man's history has been the argument that wars are fought to save civilization. Votes: 0

Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions. Votes: 0

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic. Votes: 0

We are afraid. But fear confirms life and identifies the source of every successful argument - ourselves. Votes: 0

A kind, courteous Christian is the most powerful argument that can be produced in favor of Christianity. Votes: 0

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. Votes: 0

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor. Votes: 0

There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature. Votes: 0

Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding. Votes: 0

The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing. Votes: 0

Never get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, Who do you think you are? Votes: 0

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going. Votes: 0

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them. Votes: 0

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit Votes: 0

I don't want to get into an argument at the bar with some old racist homophobic person. Votes: 0

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it. Votes: 0

Faith never makes herself her own plea, she rests all her argument upon the blood of Christ. Votes: 0

It's the duty of a lawyer to represent anyone for whom a responsible argument could be made. Votes: 0

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side. Votes: 0

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side Votes: 0

Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past. Votes: 0

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup. Votes: 0

I don't like your tone," was Violet's standard answer when one of her children was winning an argument. Votes: 0

It's difficult to love someone you don't respect, which is hard to remember when you're having an argument. Votes: 0

It is not a persuasive argument that an evil should continue because it has existed in the past. Votes: 0

I think that we may lose the argument, but I think we have to talk about gun control. Votes: 0

There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief without the help of any other argument. Votes: 0

You don’t break up with someone just because of an argument, Josh. At least, I don’t. Votes: 0

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible. Votes: 0

The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought. Votes: 0

An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths - by panicked shouting. Votes: 0

AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap. Votes: 0

She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat. Votes: 0

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one. Votes: 0

Most people are brought to faith in Christ not by argument for it but by exposure to it. Votes: 0

An Inconvenient Truth is so convincing that it makes opposers of the argument as credible as Holocaust deniers. Votes: 0

America is divided by a great argument about itself. Europe is divided by a great argument about America. Votes: 0

Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct. Votes: 0

When heart speaks and heart listens, harmony is produced. When head talks and head listens, argument is produced. Votes: 0

Never get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, 'Who do you think you are?' Votes: 0

I simply cannot accept that there are, on every story, two equal and logical sides to an argument. Votes: 0

My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime. Votes: 0

Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed. Votes: 0

To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience. Votes: 0

The only person who listens to both sides of an argument is the fellow in the next apartment. Votes: 0

The definition of stupid is the inabilitly to see another side to an argument other than one's own. Votes: 0

The important thing isn't the soundness or otherwise of the argument, but for it to make you think. Votes: 0

He always had a chip on his shoulder that he was ready to use to kindle an argument. Votes: 0

The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right. Votes: 0

How many times have we come away from an argument wishing we had said and done something different? Votes: 0

I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument. Votes: 0

The only driver stronger than an economic argument to do something is the war argument, the I-don't-want-to-die argument. Votes: 0

One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact. Votes: 0

When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument. Votes: 0

A man with an experience of God is never at the mercy of a man with an argument. Votes: 0

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose. Votes: 0

I am the eternal optimist. I think that, over time, people respond to civility and -- and rational argument. Votes: 0

Be leery of silence. It doesn't mean you won the argument. Often, people are just busy reloading their guns. Votes: 0

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact. Votes: 0

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. Votes: 0

If you can't reduce your argument to a few crisp words and phrases, there's something wrong with your argument. Votes: 0

I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic. Votes: 0

I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged. Votes: 0

Reducing every issue to an argument can become stale but it's often a very good way of clarifying issues. Votes: 0

My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art. Votes: 0

If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces. Votes: 0

The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight. Votes: 0

The ability to negotiate with other people without friction and argument is the outstanding quality of all successful people. Votes: 0

When a person begins to yell during an argument, it is a tip-off that he is unsure of himself. Votes: 0

The zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history. Votes: 0

True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily; False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argument. Votes: 0

There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument. Votes: 0

All I can say is that laughter is my music; I would deeply suspect an argument which hadn't laughter. Votes: 0

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument. Votes: 0

The test is can you do something, rather than have a theoretical argument - can you make a difference? Votes: 0

I do not propose to criticize the fatuous argument I have just outlined; here, to expound is to expose. Votes: 0

The writings of leading ID proponents reveal that the designer postulated by their argument is the God of Christianity. Votes: 0

In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..." Votes: 0

The ethical argument regarding abortion hinges on the question of when life begins. Some believe life begins at forty. Votes: 0

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction. Votes: 0

Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver. Votes: 0

If the social conservatives feel that they have a strong argument on traditional marriage, then feel free to have it. Votes: 0

Arguing with the girlfriend. Mid argument she says "Were you on Monday night Raw last night?" I had no comeback. Votes: 0

A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one's self, without a companion, and without a single argument. Votes: 0

A master salesman is one who takes the offensive and never the defensive sale of an argument, if argument arises. Votes: 0

If you have a very commanding argument that you cannot refute, not to accept the argument is to act irrationally. Votes: 0

Be part of the solution and answer to the problem versus part of the problem and continuing argument around it. Votes: 0

History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts. Votes: 0

A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. Votes: 0

As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing. Votes: 0

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing. Votes: 0

I know many sports fans that don't enjoy soccer. The argument is that there's no action, not enough of it. Votes: 0

suicide is the ultimate 'one-up,' as it were, the accusation that brooks no defense, the argument won at last. Votes: 0

Success and vocabulary go hand in hand. This has been proven so often that it no longer admits of argument. Votes: 0

If you can win an argument by stretching your lips with a smile, why open your mouth and lose it. Votes: 0

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument. Votes: 0

If you can win an argument by stretching your lips for a smile, why open your mouth and lose it. Votes: 0

I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role. Votes: 0

It must have been then that I began to lose faith in reasonable argument as the sole measure of truth. Votes: 0

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude. Votes: 0

Crime can be a unifying argument - not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them. Votes: 0

I was an adult before I began to learn that there is a difference between a conversation and an argument. Votes: 0

When I'm down, I talk to myself a lot. I look crazy because I'm constantly having an argument with myself. Votes: 0

I let the argument rip healthily between the departments. This is a very good way to finding out the truth. Votes: 0

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind. Votes: 0

In too many marriage conflicts, we work too hard at winning the argument and too little at winning the heart. Votes: 0

Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory. Votes: 0

Winning an argument with your wife is like winning the war with Iraq. Once you win, you're in even more trouble. Votes: 0

I'm not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people. Votes: 0

We can only afford two children' is a squalid argument, but more acceptable in our society than 'we don't like children'. Votes: 0

The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry. Votes: 0

Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again. Votes: 0

Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument. Votes: 0

Why do people argue? Even the wisest of men have not found God through argument! Is God a subject for argument? Votes: 0

Mostly, we argued about who which of us was better at arguing, and particularly about who had won the previous argument. Votes: 0

Whenever I appeared to have won an argument, Mom would say something like, 'Even broken clocks are right twice a day. Votes: 0

Unlike every other nation in the world, the United States defines itself as a hypothesis and constitutes itself as an argument. Votes: 0

This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern. Votes: 0

My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.' Votes: 0

You certainly wouldn't want to invest much time in an argument with someone who would believe it in the first place. Votes: 0

Has anyone ever won an argument with you? (Syd) Just Tee, and I was drunk and wounded at the time. (Joe) Votes: 0

The reactionary point of view was always so easy to put, the complex, radical argument always so easy to put down. Votes: 0

It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American argument or parody their political leadership. Votes: 0

When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy. Votes: 0

Public discourse requires making an argument for a point of view, not having an argument - as in having a fight. Votes: 0

I don't ever recall having a political argument with Bob Grant. I've known him a long time. I've always liked him. Votes: 0

Part of the skill of saying no is to shut up afterward and not babble on, offering material for an argument. Votes: 0

First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past. Votes: 0

To the seeker after pearls, silence is a speaking argument, for no breath comes forth from the diver of the sea. Votes: 0

When an argument is over, how many weighty reasons does a man recollect which his heat and violence made him utterly forget? Votes: 0

A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine. Votes: 0

Each book is, in a sense, an argument with myself, and I would write it, whether it is ever published or not. Votes: 0

If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him. Votes: 0

there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument - and that is to avoid it . Votes: 0

There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types. Votes: 0

I love argument, I love debate. I dont expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, thats not their job Votes: 0

When married one has to get into an argument once in a while since in this way one learns about the other. Votes: 0

I think I had an argument with a hypnotist this morning. It makes perfect sense as I have no memory of it. Votes: 0

Talking with a Martian is something like talking with an echo. You don't get any argument but you don't get results either. Votes: 0

Negative people are worse than negative occurrences. The argument is over in ten minutes - the person may hang around for years. Votes: 0

If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument. Votes: 0

The only way by which you and I can wean orthodox Hindus from their bigotry is by patient argument and correct conduct. Votes: 0

A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book. Votes: 0

You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument. Votes: 0

If you go in for argument take care of your temper. Your logic if you have any will take care of itself. Votes: 0

I think that the, Ted Cruz is not even a natural-born citizen, argument will resonate for at least the next few weeks. Votes: 0

If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence. Votes: 0

What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important. Votes: 0

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job. Votes: 0

The Cold War provided justification for a larger peacetime military, since we were never really at peace, or so the argument went. Votes: 0

When people say "clearly" something that means there's a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren't clear at all. Votes: 0

Our argument is not flatly circular, but something like it. It has the form, figuratively speaking, of a closed curve in space. Votes: 0

I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don't know the other side's argument better than they do. Votes: 0

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic. Votes: 0

Always be willing to look at both sides of the argument. Understanding the other side is the best way to strengthen your own. Votes: 0

Wrote a science fiction novel about a man who wins an argument with his wife, but it was rejected for being too farfetched. Votes: 0

Burning sage changes the energy for the home, so if you've had an argument or some form of stress, it removes negative energies. Votes: 0

Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity. Votes: 0

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat Votes: 0

Whenever you can manoeuvre your characters into a situation where they both have a good argument to make, you're on the right track. Votes: 0

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow. Votes: 0

You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it. Votes: 0

Don't compliment me in the middle of an argument. It won't make me stammer or blush, and it just makes you look desperate. Votes: 0

A companion is but another self; wherefore it is an argument that a man is wicked if he keep company with the wicked. Votes: 0

Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with it. Votes: 0

Having someone to love and hold, to make you feel 'whole' and not alone, is worth every damn argument ever to be had. Votes: 0

Don't confuse a kid whining for a treat with the argument of a rigorous, logical mind," he had said, as logical as ever." Votes: 0

We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it. Votes: 0

Remember, it takes two to make an argument. The one who is wrong is the one who will be doing most of the talking. Votes: 0

The only thing worse than being on the wrong side of an argument is to be on the right side with no one listening. Votes: 0

I don't know of a better argument in favor of farming with horses than trying to start an old tractor in the winter time. Votes: 0

In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number. Votes: 0

Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them, and I say to myself, There's one more argument for birth control. Votes: 0

If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I was right! Votes: 0

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other. Votes: 0

I am finishing a biography of [Gustave] Flaubert. Because he is the opposite of what I am. One needs to rub up against argument. Votes: 0

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other. Votes: 0

A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast. Votes: 0

Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have. Votes: 0

I've never won an argument with my wife; and the only time I thought I had I found out the argument wasn't over yet. Votes: 0

I had inherited what my father called the art of the advocate, or the irritating habit of looking for the flaw in any argument. Votes: 0

The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is to deny that it exists. Votes: 0

Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument. Votes: 0

If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument. Votes: 0

The argument between wives and whores is an old one; each one thinking that whatever she is, at least she is not the other. Votes: 0

You can be happy, or you can be right. If you want to be part of a couple and win every argument, you're in trouble. Votes: 0

No matter what side of an argument you're on, you always find some people on your side that wish you were on the other side. Votes: 0

My pappy told me never to bet my bladder against a brewery or get into an argument with people who buy ink by the barrel. Votes: 0

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not. Votes: 0

His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death. Votes: 0

The next time you find yourself in an argument, rather than defend your position, see if you can see the other point of view first. Votes: 0

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book. Votes: 0