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

Argument, Injury, Silence

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"Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions."

E. T. Bell, Scottish Mathematician

Argument, Proof

"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

Argument, Arguments, Being, Fact, Party

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

Edward W. Howe, American Novelist

Argument, Satisfaction

"Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Argument, Arguments

"When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

Argument, May, Worth

"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

"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

"Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad."

Marilyn vos Savant, American Writer

Argument, Punishment

"Neither irony or sarcasm is argument."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

Argument, Irony, Sarcasm

"A day without an argument is like an egg without salt."

Angela Carter, English Novelist

Argument, Day

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

Death

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

Cunning

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

Melancholy

"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."

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"Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions."

"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."

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

"Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing."

"When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem."

"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."

"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."

"Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad."

"Neither irony or sarcasm is argument."

"A day without an argument is like an egg without salt."

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

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

"Kiss till the cow comes home."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."