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

Argument, Injury, Silence

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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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"You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

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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

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"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

Argument, Truth, Power, Regret, Wisdom

"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

Argument, Debate, Opinion, Time, Wisdom

"I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message."

Anthony Holden, British Journalist

Argument, Blame, Old, Popular

"Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations."

James L. Buckley, American Politician

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

John Sayles, American Director

Argument, Democracy, Film, Wrong

"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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"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."

"You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it."

"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."

"I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message."

"Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations."

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

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

Explore more quotes by Francis Beaumont

"Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock."

"Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven."

"But what is past my help is past my care."

"Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme."

"Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep."

"Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy."

"Kiss till the cow comes home."

"Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted."

"There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees."

"The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much."