Arguing Quotes

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

We should stop arguing about tax cuts in this town.

That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.

The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

I am not arguing with you - I am telling you.

Well, certainly the Democrats have been arguing to raise the capital gains tax on all Americans. Obama says he wants to do that. That would slow down economic growth. It's not necessarily helpful to the economy. Every time we've cut the capital gains tax, the economy has grown. Whenever we raise the capital gains tax, it's been damaged.

We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.

Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.

It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.

If you go to most third world countries, the older woman dispenses advice to the arguing couple while other members of the family, or even the village, sit around and listen. It is no big deal.

According to this way of arguing, there will be no true principles in the world; for there are none but what may be wrested and perverted to serve bad purposes, either through the weakness or wickedness of men.

I mean, there's no arguing. There is no anything. There is no beating around the bush. "You're fired" is a very strong term.

Complaining and arguing will not help. We are fully concentrating on the game against the Czechs.

The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

One wonders whether the Obama re-election campaign may be on the right track as it seeks to apply the you-break-it-you-own-it rule to Bush and the American economy. Hardly a day goes by without President Obama or his surrogates arguing that it takes longer than four years to recover from an economic crisis so long in the making.

You can fill this table up with people who are racist, homophobic, Satanist worshippers, sexist and we can be arguing but if you put on a song, I guarantee that people will stop and listen and that's what I love about music, it can bring people together.

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.