I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

We must take our friends as they are.

A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.

It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.

He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf than did Johnson.

What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.

I who have no sisters or brothers look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess but a friend loves the man himself.

What a curious creature is man With what a variety of powers and faculties is he endued Yet how easily is he disturbed and put out of order

I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.

Many infidels have maintained that Ignorance is the mother of Devotion.

The pleasure of gratifying whim is very great. It is known only by those who are whimsical.

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.

As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing.

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.

The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.

I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, and argument and so on, and I can't do that and I'm not in that bracket at all.