Argument Quotes · Page 19

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

— Sarah Vowell

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

— Dale carnegie

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

— Janet Frame

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

— Hosea Ballou

“Users of slippery slope arguments should take skiing lessons—you really can choose to stop.”

— Nigel Warburton

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

— Bobby Robson

The purpose of an argument, should not be victorious, but progress...

— Anonymous

Difference between a woman's argument and a knife is - the knife has a point.

— Anonymous

“Well, there was a sort of bastard justice in his view of the case, and so I dropped the matter. When you…

— Mark Twain

There is, of course, a legitimate argument for some limitation upon immigration. We no longer need settlers for virgin lands, and our…

— John F. Kennedy

There was a very convincing argument made that the extremists have won and the aggression is now supported by the majority, therefore…

— Joichi Ito

“You have to predict and examine and understand every argument the other side is going to throw at you. It's not about…

— Cherrie Lynn

To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see…

— Philip Guston

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means…

— Margaret Thatcher

[Addressed to Berlusconi who wanted to impose himself on the editorial style of "Il Giornale"] In the art of entrepeneurship, you are…

— Indro Montanelli

There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come…

— Mahatma Gandhi

If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A good debater is not necessarily an effective vote-getter: you can find a hole in your opponent's argument through which you could…

— Anonymous

There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I always refused to give in if there was some argument with my father. Whether it was true or not, I refused…

— Edmund Hillary

The recent past is full of diverse examples of writers - Mahfouz in Egypt, Pamuk in Turkey, and more interestingly, Pasternak in…

— Pankaj Mishra

Being in relationship is not living in a fantasyland and don't think that everything's going to be perfect all the time. You…

— Megan Fox

Dawkins’s problem is that he doesn’t know the difference between probabilistic empirical theorizing and strict metaphysical demonstration, and thus misreads an attempt…

— Edward Feser

Never invite to dinner: those who won't decide until the last minute; those who come more than half an hour late; those…

— Mason Cooley

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

— Desmond Tutu

Q: What is the next thing one should do after winning an argument with the wife? A: Apologize!!..

— Anonymous

There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder.

— Chris Patten

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

— Mordecai Richler

“Some things that goes out of your mouth can wrap itself around your neck and choke you to death in future.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

My wife and I had an argument last week that was so stupid, that it bears repeating. My wife collects twist ties...welcome…

— Bill Engvall

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

— Judith Martin

That Troublesome Moment When You Realize That You Are Wrong In The Middle Of An Argument...

— Pacifiersucker

“Completely desist from defending your point of view. When you have no point to defend, you do not allow the birth of…

— Deepak Chopra

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

— Thomas Paine

“[R]evolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning;”

— David Hume

Most arguments with teenagers are setups. Your darling, simply stated, is manipulating you.

— Kevin Leman

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

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

America is divided by a great argument about itself. Europe is divided by a great argument about America.

— Timothy Garton Ash

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

— Aesop

Sometimes the only thing we women want is a dick and no arguments. What could make us happier?

— Linda Fiorentino