"I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding."

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"Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about."

Rodney Dangerfield, American Comedian

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

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

Argument, Custom, Manners, Morals

"You take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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"It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"We go round and round trying to convince one another that our opinion makes more sense. And the only winner is time for making us look like fools by wasting it."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

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

John Tillotson, British Theologian

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"They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date."

John Hume, Irish Politician

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"The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically."

Sidney Blumenthal, American Journalist

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"In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort."

William Gilbert, British Composer

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

Voltaire, French Writer

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"I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything."

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"Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about."

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

"You take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument."

"It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about."

"We go round and round trying to convince one another that our opinion makes more sense. And the only winner is time for making us look like fools by wasting it."

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

"They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date."

"The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically."

"In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort."

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

Explore more quotes by James Boswell

"A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself."

"For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation."

"It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy."

"A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation."

"I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything."

"If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good."

"We must take our friends as they are."

"What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!"

"He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it."

"There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends."