Argument Quotes

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

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.

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

Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.

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

No deeply rooted tendency was ever extirpated by adverse judgment. Not having originally been founded on argument, it cannot be destroyed by logic.

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

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

Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to stupidity.

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

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

My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if George W.Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem.

The strongest of all arguments against the interference of the public with purely personal conduct, is that when it does interfere, the odds are that it interferes wrongly, and in the wrong place.

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

Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

A good action is preferable to an argument.

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

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

God's Word is its own best argument.

The best argument for anarchism is the twentieth century.

I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.

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.

We like people who are honest. Honest in argument, honest with clients, honest with suppliers, honest with the company - and above all, honest with consumers.

There are a lot of good arguments for birth control, but as far as terminating a life that has already come into existence, I haven't found any.

Never Get Into An Argument With A Customer. If You Win The Argument You Will Almost Invariably Lose The Sale. And I Don't Like Your Chances For A Sale If You Lose The Argument Either.

To concede that there are social problems that cannot be corrected without the state is to give up the entire argument over the future of liberty itself.

The finding of arguments for a conclusion given in advance is not philosophy, but special pleading

Scientists are treacherous allies on committees, for they are apt to change their minds in response to arguments.

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

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

Conspiracy nut, leftist, madman. These are terms of dismissal so you don't have to listen to the argument. It would be healthier and more fun to hear what someone has to say.

Tears are not arguments.

The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for 
the existence of God.

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

If we’re going to have arguments, let’s have arguments — but let’s make them debates worthy of this body and worthy of this country.

The argument for the free market is a complicated and sophisticated one and depends on demonstration of secondary effects. I have confidence market efficiency will win out.

I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim.

Savory...that's a swell word. And Basil and Betel. Capsicum. Curry. All great. But Relish, now, Relish with a capital R. No argument, that' the best.

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

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

Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.

Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally.

The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.

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

Avoid Arguments Like Rattlesnakes And Earthquakes

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.

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

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