Arguing Quotes

• Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 30, 2016

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  Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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

  Edward Gibbon

  Respect, Life And Love, Mistake

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• It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

  Oscar Wilde

  Personality, Intellectual, Intelligence

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.8, Mondial

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

  Marcus Aurelius

  Time, Integrity, Insperational

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius (Book X, Chapter 16), circa 170.

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• It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.

  Cato the Elder

  Ears, Matter, Difficult

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• The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

  William Shakespeare

  Witty, Atheist, Memorable

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [99]

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• I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

  James Joyce

  Writing, Way, Busy

  James Joyce, Jeri Johnson (2008). “Ulysses”, p.10, Oxford Paperbacks

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• He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Anger, Noise, Argument

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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

  James Russell Lowell

  Philosophical, Destiny, Grieving

  'Democracy and other Addresses' (1887) 'Democracy'

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• I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.

  Iain Banks

  Machines, Consciousness, Stills

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• You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Guy, Different, Reason

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• There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

  Walter Lippmann

  Pride, Temptation, Sin

  Walter Lippmann (1955). “Essays in the Public Philosophy”, p.85, Transaction Publishers

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• A nice pickle they were all in now: all neatly tied up in sacks, with three angry trolls (and two with burns and bashes to remember) sitting by them, arguing whether they should roast them slowly, or mince them fine and boil them, or just sit on them one by one and squash them into jelly.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Nice, Two, Squash

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Kofi Annan

  Reality, Law, Economic Globalization

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.

  Dale Earnhardt

  Wife, Car, Want

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• Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.

  Philip Pullman

  Philip Pullman (2015). “His Dark Materials: The Complete Trilogy”, p.524, Random House

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• I don't think it's useful for somebody to argue with reviews.

  Bob Woodward

  Thinking, Reviews

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• I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.

  Leo Durocher

  Baseball, Games, Umpires

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• If we change the definition of marriage to be more inclusive, then it is logical to argue that we should broaden the definition so that won't exclude anyone.

  Jack Kingston

  Definitions, Logical, Should

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• Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low.

  Aldrich Ames

  Europe, Gdp, Invasion

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No one would argue against the fact that L.A. leads the country in opportunities for being hip and pretentious.

  Merrill Markoe

  Country, Opportunity, Facts

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• How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.

  Meryl Streep

  Perception, Firsts, Industry

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• Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.

  Louis Leakey

  Senior, Hippie, People

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• I had hoped you would protest, but please don't argue.

  Lotte Lehmann

  Afterlife, Protest, Please

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