"A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments."

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"A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments."

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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

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"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

"The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right."

Lord Hailsham, British Politician

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"There are clear cases in which "understanding" literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument."

John Searle, American Philosopher

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

Marilyn vos Savant, American Writer

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Man

"Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me."

Nature

"Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams."

Dream

"Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own."

Time

"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."

People

"The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it."

Nature

"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."

Idea

"What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?"

Experience

"The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing."

Imagination

"Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much."

Virtue