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

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

A thief believes everybody steals.

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.

Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.

It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.

Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.

No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.

If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.

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

People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

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.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.