Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
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There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
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There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.
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There is no good arguing with the inevitible. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
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I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's mortality.
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There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.
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Arguing with a teenager is like wrestling with a pig in the mud...sooner or later you realize the pig likes it!
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A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues.
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Scepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things. A sad case for him when all that he can manage to believe is something he can button in his pocket, and with one or the other organ eat and digest! Lower than that he will not get.
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Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself
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There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity. Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.
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The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.
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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.
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If you're arguing with an idiot make sure he isn't doing the same thing.
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I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
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When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.
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When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.
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There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.
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Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.
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Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
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If there is no God, why do atheists spend do much time arguing about something that doesn't exist?
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Waste no more time arguing what a god man should be. Be one.
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Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
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When you are arguing with an idiot, make sure the other person isn't doing the same thing.
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