Quotes about An Argument

Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument. Votes: 4

Keep cool; anger is not an argument. Votes: 4

I never remember my parents having an argument. Votes: 4

It was an argument of rare power and eloquence. Votes: 4

This band has never had an argument. It's just amazing. Votes: 4

A day without an argument is like an egg without salt. Votes: 4

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance. Votes: 4

The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right. Votes: 4

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it. Votes: 4

When you let someone else win an argument, often you both end up winners. Votes: 4

After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means. Votes: 4

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding. Votes: 4

Liberals are sometimes defined as people who can't take their own side in an argument. Votes: 4

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it. Votes: 4

I was an adult before I began to learn that there is a difference between a conversation and an argument. Votes: 4

The argument for getting our own house in order is not an argument for turning our back on the world. We cannot and should not do that. Votes: 4

A gun is not an argument. Votes: 3

History is an argument without end. Votes: 3

Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent. Votes: 3

History is, indeed, an argument without end. Votes: 3

A good action is preferable to an argument. Votes: 3

One can never win an argument with ignorance. Votes: 3

You could start an argument in an empty house. Votes: 3

Surely: the adverb of a man without an argument. Votes: 3

If you want to stop an argument, close your mouth. Votes: 3

Sometimes a word or an argument will trigger a poem. Votes: 3

Bigot: A person who wins an argument with a liberal. Votes: 3

You never win an argument until they attack your person. Votes: 3

A fair-minded man tries to see both sides of an argument. Votes: 3

You can not have an argument with a fully conscious person. Votes: 3

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

Supporting a murderous political agenda with such an argument is tragic! Votes: 3

When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument. Votes: 3

There is nothing that a New-Englander so nearly worships as an argument. Votes: 3

Then an argument would ensue because they were men with different ideas. Votes: 3

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one. Votes: 3

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one. Votes: 3

The fastest way to lose an argument is to lose your temper. Votes: 3

Winning an argument is losing it as it makes the loser feel bad. Votes: 3

Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument. Votes: 3

The definition of a Racist is anybody winning an argument with a liberal. Votes: 3

A definition is the start of an argument, not the end of one. Votes: 3

The bestway to diffuse an argument is to listen first, second, and last. Votes: 3

Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad. Votes: 3

The weight of an argument may often be multiplied by making it specific Votes: 3

I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem. Votes: 3

A man sometimes wins an argument, but a woman always wins a silence. Votes: 3

My ideal picture of citizenship will always be an argument, not a sing-along. Votes: 3

A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest. Votes: 3

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism. Votes: 3

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion. Votes: 3

An aim of an argument should be progress, but progress ultimately means little without victory. Votes: 3

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. Votes: 3

Nobody gets killed when they're happy. It always starts with an argument, or a debt. Votes: 3

Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong. -T-Shirt Votes: 3

What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on? Votes: 3

If a woman and a man who have an argument keep talking they keep fighting. Votes: 3

I don't want to get into an argument with somebody about how they ought to vote. Votes: 3

However good an argument in philosophy may happen to be, it is generally not good enough. Votes: 3

Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed. Votes: 3

No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights. Votes: 3

I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it. Votes: 3

There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes. Votes: 3

He's the only man I know who could start an argument with himself. (on Craig Bellamy) Votes: 3

I don't want to get into an argument at the bar with some old racist homophobic person. Votes: 3

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side. Votes: 3

Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past. Votes: 3

The moment that one person in an argument claims to be God, dialogue and debate become impossible. Votes: 3

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side Votes: 3

Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding. Votes: 3

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it. Votes: 3

Never get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, Who do you think you are? Votes: 3

The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing. Votes: 3

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going. Votes: 3

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose. Votes: 3

How many times have we come away from an argument wishing we had said and done something different? Votes: 3

I don't like your tone," was Violet's standard answer when one of her children was winning an argument. Votes: 3

The definition of stupid is the inabilitly to see another side to an argument other than one's own. Votes: 3

I simply cannot accept that there are, on every story, two equal and logical sides to an argument. Votes: 3

It's difficult to love someone you don't respect, which is hard to remember when you're having an argument. Votes: 3

You don’t break up with someone just because of an argument, Josh. At least, I don’t. Votes: 3

A man with an experience of God is never at the mercy of a man with an argument. Votes: 3

The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought. Votes: 3

The only person who listens to both sides of an argument is the fellow in the next apartment. Votes: 3

The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right. Votes: 3

He always had a chip on his shoulder that he was ready to use to kindle an argument. Votes: 3

Never get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, 'Who do you think you are?' Votes: 3

Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed. Votes: 3

She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat. Votes: 3

To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience. Votes: 3

I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument. Votes: 3

All I can say is that laughter is my music; I would deeply suspect an argument which hadn't laughter. Votes: 3

When a person begins to yell during an argument, it is a tip-off that he is unsure of himself. Votes: 3

Reducing every issue to an argument can become stale but it's often a very good way of clarifying issues. Votes: 3

The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight. Votes: 3

If you can win an argument by stretching your lips for a smile, why open your mouth and lose it. Votes: 3

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind. Votes: 3

I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role. Votes: 3

Crime can be a unifying argument - not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them. Votes: 3

When I'm down, I talk to myself a lot. I look crazy because I'm constantly having an argument with myself. Votes: 3

A master salesman is one who takes the offensive and never the defensive sale of an argument, if argument arises. Votes: 3

If you can win an argument by stretching your lips with a smile, why open your mouth and lose it. Votes: 3

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. Votes: 3

Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver. Votes: 3

As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing. Votes: 3

It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American argument or parody their political leadership. Votes: 3

Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument. Votes: 3

Unlike every other nation in the world, the United States defines itself as a hypothesis and constitutes itself as an argument. Votes: 3

Whenever I appeared to have won an argument, Mom would say something like, 'Even broken clocks are right twice a day. Votes: 3

You certainly wouldn't want to invest much time in an argument with someone who would believe it in the first place. Votes: 3

Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again. Votes: 3

Winning an argument with your wife is like winning the war with Iraq. Once you win, you're in even more trouble. Votes: 3

Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument. Votes: 3

Has anyone ever won an argument with you? (Syd) Just Tee, and I was drunk and wounded at the time. (Joe) Votes: 3

My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.' Votes: 3

Public discourse requires making an argument for a point of view, not having an argument - as in having a fight. Votes: 3

Part of the skill of saying no is to shut up afterward and not babble on, offering material for an argument. Votes: 3

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better. Votes: 3

What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important. Votes: 3

If you put Buddha, Jesus Christ, Socrates, Shakespeare, Arjuna, Krishna at a dinner table together, I can't see them having an argument. Votes: 3

When an argument is over, how many weighty reasons does a man recollect which his heat and violence made him utterly forget? Votes: 3

there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument - and that is to avoid it . Votes: 3

I think I had an argument with a hypnotist this morning. It makes perfect sense as I have no memory of it. Votes: 3

When married one has to get into an argument once in a while since in this way one learns about the other. Votes: 3

Each book is, in a sense, an argument with myself, and I would write it, whether it is ever published or not. Votes: 3

'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible. Votes: 3

The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible. Votes: 3

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: 3

Wrote a science fiction novel about a man who wins an argument with his wife, but it was rejected for being too farfetched. Votes: 3

Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness. Votes: 3

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: 3

A companion is but another self; wherefore it is an argument that a man is wicked if he keep company with the wicked. Votes: 3

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: 3

Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity. Votes: 3

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: 3

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: 3

There's an argument for saying that brave men deserve what they get, but it's a serious business forcing cowards to stand in harm's way. Votes: 3

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: 3

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: 3

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: 3

Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader. Votes: 3

As far as just my stand-up is concerned, I don't care about changing anyone's mind. I'm not making an argument. I'm a guy doing comedy. Votes: 3

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: 3

How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of words as inferences) Votes: 3

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: 3

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: 3

I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument. Votes: 3

My wife and I had an argument last week that was so stupid, that it bears repeating. My wife collects twist ties...welcome to my world. Votes: 3

However, if you do start crying in an argument and someone asks why, you can always say, 'I'm just crying because of how wrong you are.' Votes: 3

A sense of humor is an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. Votes: 3

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments. Votes: 2

Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments. Votes: 2

The only driver stronger than an economic argument to do something is the war argument, the I-don't-want-to-die argument. Votes: 2

The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change. Votes: 2

I'm used to politics at an international level: people put together an argument and, even if you vehemently disagree with them, well, you can recognise it's an argument and respond. Votes: 2

Argument weak; speak loudly! Votes: 0

Insight makes argument ridiculous. Votes: 0

Scholarship is polite argument. Votes: 0

Clear statement is argument. Votes: 0

The Last Argument of Kings. Votes: 0

Argument is not always truth. Votes: 0

The final argument of kings Votes: 0

My life is my argument. Votes: 0

Sophistry is the fallacy of 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

Let argument bear no unmusical sound. Votes: 0

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. Votes: 0

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument. Votes: 0

Truth springs from argument amongst friends. Votes: 0

Love is a very compelling argument. Votes: 0

The argument is at an end. Votes: 0

Let your life be your argument. Votes: 0

Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken. Votes: 0

Good argument is intended to persuade another. Votes: 0

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

The climate change argument is absolute crap Votes: 0

The truth is always the strongest argument. Votes: 0

The idea comes before the logical argument. Votes: 0

Argument is the worst sort of conversation. Votes: 0

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

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

A good life is a main argument. Votes: 0

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

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

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

An Argument needs no reason; Nor any friendship. Votes: 0

Silence is argument carried out by other means. Votes: 0

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

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

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

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

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

Argument should be polite as well as logical. Votes: 0

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

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Votes: 0

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

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

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

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

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt. Votes: 0

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence. Votes: 0

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

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

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

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

Argument does not soften, but rather hardens, the obdurate heart. Votes: 0

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have won every argument I ever had with myself. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it. Votes: 0

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate. Votes: 0

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

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

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

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

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. Votes: 0

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

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

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

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. Votes: 0

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

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

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

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

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

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

Argument does not teach children or the immature. Only time and experience does that. Votes: 0

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

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing. Votes: 0

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

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

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

A witty illustration or an apt story will accomplish more than columns of 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained. Votes: 0

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. Votes: 0

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

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

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

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

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

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

Argument need not be heated; it can be punctuated with courteous smiles - or sympathetic tears. Votes: 0

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength; anger blows out the lamp of the mind. Votes: 0

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct. 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 argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths - by panicked shouting. Votes: 0

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic. 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 ability to negotiate with other people without friction and argument is the outstanding quality of all successful people. Votes: 0

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

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

When you're in the Middle of an Argument, ask yourself: Do I want to be Right or be Happy? Votes: 0

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence. Votes: 0

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

Be part of the solution and answer to the problem versus part of the problem and continuing argument around 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly. 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

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

Growth chestnuts have to be placed on the unyielding anvil of biophysical realities and then crushed with the hammer of moral argument. 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

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

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly. Votes: 0

The best argument for Christianity is the Gregorian chant. Listening to that music, one can believe anything -- while the music lasts. 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

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

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others. 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

I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Are you going to win every argument?" He was pretty certain he'd asked her that once before. May be twice. "Only the important ones. Votes: 0

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: 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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument? Votes: 0

I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can. Votes: 0

Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone. Votes: 0

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature. 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

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

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 argument could be made that the word 'hero' is overused. I do not think, however, that this is the case when referring to teachers. Votes: 0

The argument could be made that the word hero is overused. I do not think, however, that this is the case when referring to teachers. Votes: 0

There's one argument that says we shouldn't be putting these kids on under the age of 16. I think you've got to take it case by case. Votes: 0

The fly in her argument is that when she says, 'they' will feel like lemons, we don't know who 'they' are. And 'they' might BE lemons. 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