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Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.

Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public.

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.

A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.

The argument between wives and whores is an old one; each one thinking that whatever she is, at least she is not the other.

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.

This band has never had an argument. It's just amazing.

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.

Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.

Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was too high a price to pay. No one would make those arguments today.

Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them, and I say to myself, There's one more argument for birth control.

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.

Sometimes the only thing we women want is a dick and no arguments. What could make us happier?

I do notice that when I've been away and I come back to London. People look at you. People are ready to pick arguments.

I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry.

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.

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.