Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Evil events from evil causes spring.

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Under every stone lurks a politician.

High thoughts must have high language.

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.

Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say.

One bush they say can never hide two thieves

Your lost friends are not dead but gone before Advanced a stage or two upon that road Which you must travel in the steps they trod.

The old are in a second childhood.

An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.

Open your mind before your mouth.

There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.

If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.

High thoughts must have high language

The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification.

I'd like to do policy and I'd like to do philosophy, I'd like to be able to get into the depth, into the meat of the argument - that's the kind of stuff I want to do.

The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

Theses officers were good friends, so it must have been a terrible argument, because the one who played chess with my father was so angry that he walked over to the dentist's house and got the dentist out of bed and shot him.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.

Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?

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.

It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda.

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

I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.

It's all very boring to say that we get along great and all that and sometimes we mock up come aggravation to make it interesting but the truth of it is that we get along so well we've never had an argument.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.