On the other hand, it is not fair to say that changes in federal policy have caused our tuition to rise faster. Every economic argument imaginable would indicate that we should raise tuition at a faster rate than we do.
~By Charles Vest ~
Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof.
~By Isaac Mayer Wise ~
I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument.
~By Jeff Foxworthy ~
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.
~By Angela Carter ~
I explain this not for publicity, nor seeking to win an argument of right or wrong, I explain so that the record is clear as to my thinking and motivations in bombing a government installation.
~By Timothy McVeigh ~
Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.
~By Swami Sivananda ~
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
~By George Santayana ~
When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.
~By Zsa Zsa Gabor ~
My father had kicked me out of his house at the height of an argument over an opinion difference. He had become so enraged. He told me never to come back, and that was all the severance it took.
~By Lynette Fromme ~
There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It's absolute bollocks.
~By Bob Geldof ~
Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.
~By Charles Simmons ~
If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.
~By Mason Cooley ~
When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.
~By Phyllis McGinley ~
Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
~By Edward de Bono ~
No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
~By Karl Popper ~
The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.
~By Grace Abbott ~
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.
~By Dave Edmunds ~
The counter-argument would be, so what if my sexual relationships are superficial, one can still have satisfying and rewarding relationships with friends, or parents, or siblings, or whatever.
~By Chester Brown ~
George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.
~By Gary Coleman ~
If you are ignorant, you certainly can get into some interesting arguments.
~By Herbert Prochnow ~
Truthiness is tearing apart our country, and I don't mean the argument over who came up with the word. I don't know whether it's a new thing, but it's certainly a current thing, in that it doesn't seem to matter what facts are. It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.
~By Stephen Colbert ~
When a business group tells us there is nothing wrong with the environment, naturally they may have good arguments, but we are also sceptical, because we know that they have an interest in these things.
~By Bjorn Lomborg ~
To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced - this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the resolution passed on the matter.
~By Fredrik Bajer ~
Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.
~By E. T. Bell ~
I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization.
~By Peter L. Berger ~
Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.
~By Wayne Coyne ~
In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
~By Franz Kafka ~
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
~By Josh Billings ~
They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date.
~By John Hume ~
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
~By Thomas Hardy ~
Their argument, and I think it's a correct one, is that they'll make more money from the trades and the hardcovers if nobody messes with the creative team.
~By Mark Millar ~
One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.
~By David F. Houston ~
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
~By Winston Churchill ~
I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits.
~By John Podesta ~
To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
~By John Tillotson ~
Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.
~By Robert Benchley ~
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.
~By James L. Buckley ~
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
So if you're on tour for eight months, a year... or whatever it is you definitely don't want arguments and I'm happy to say that I've always had a really nice bunch of people around me all the time.
~By Joan Armatrading ~
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
~By Milton Friedman ~
When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important that everybody gets on because you're in close proximity a great deal of the time.
~By Joan Armatrading ~
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent.
~By Guy Verhofstadt ~
Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court.
~By William Wycherley ~
Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
~By Hosea Ballou ~
Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.
~By Rodney Dangerfield ~
There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
~By William Tecumseh Sherman ~
Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.
~By Annie Besant ~
My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
~By Jack Benny ~
Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.
~By Dan Abrams ~
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
~By Frederick Douglass ~
There can be no argument about the Lone Star State's significant contributions to American history, and we must remember the actions and the sacrifices of those who made Texas independence a reality.
~By Michael McCaul ~
A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.
~By John Dryden ~
I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.
~By Katharine Butler Hathaway ~
What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.
~By Sidney Blumenthal ~
The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.
~By Emmeline Pankhurst ~
John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization.
~By Norodom Sihanouk ~
The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
~By Edward W. Howe ~
I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a grenade and it won, and consequently I was forced to come back to Australia for twelve months.
~By Peter Scott ~
I do remember the whole thing as being very argumentative, hot blooded... a permanent state of friction between Jon and Chris, Chris and me, me and Jon.
~By Bill Bruford ~
Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed.
~By Peter Coyote ~
Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.
~By Omar Khayyam ~
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
~By John Locke ~
We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.
~By Louis D. Brandeis ~
As for the assertion that nuclear weapons prevent wars, how many more wars are needed to refute this arguments? Tens of millions have died in the many wars that have taken place since 1945.
~By Joseph Rotblat ~
Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance.
~By Max von Laue ~
I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.
~By Jonathan Mayhew ~
Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.
~By Frederick The Great ~
Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
~By Katharine Hepburn ~
Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.
~By Phyllis Diller ~
The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.
~By Elihu Root ~
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
~By David Hume ~
Well, it's 15 years since Sex, Lies And Videotape, and if you hang around long enough you're having the same arguments with just a new set of people every few years and it gets boring.
~By Steven Soderbergh ~
The argument between wives and whores is an old one; each one thinking that whatever she is, at least she is not the other.
~By Andrea Dworkin ~
Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.
~By Andrea Dworkin ~
No matter what side of an argument you're on, you always find some people on your side that wish you were on the other side.
~By Jascha Heifetz ~
Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.
~By Leon Kass ~
There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.
~By Laurence Sterne ~
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.
~By Marilyn Ferguson ~
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
~By Colin Powell ~
There would always be a vote. There were always conflicts and arguments for years and years - that's why we're not together anymore. But there was always a vote. It was always two out of three.
~By David Zucker ~
My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem.
~By John Sayles ~
It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other.
~By John Wilkins ~
Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one.
~By Lord Halifax ~
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.
~By Adam Michnik ~
In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.
~By William Gilbert ~
The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
~By Sydney J. Harris ~
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction.
~By Stockwell Day ~
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
~By William Penn ~
There are clear cases in which "understanding" literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument.
~By John Searle ~
My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments.
~By John Barrymore ~
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?
~By Ted Olson ~
When a thing is true, there is no need to use any arguments to substantiate it.
~By Vinoba Bhave ~
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