In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.

It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.

People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

One thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and win a few games will plunge you into gloom and unacceptable beatings very soon. It happens every time.

You can only have one aim per debate.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

I love argument, I love debate. I don’t expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that’s not their job.

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.

If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don’t say, ‚You don’t know how to use the English language,‘ or ‚How could you make that argument?‘ It will be welcomed much more if you have a gentle touch than if you are aggressive.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

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.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

I shouldn’t be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.

My life is my argument.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

There is no gambling like politics.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

All gamblers lose regularly, but they rarely discuss it in public. Losing is bad for the image, dude. Nobody buys Hot Tips from Losers. Remember that.

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

Man, I really like Vegas.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.

There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother’s milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won’t be any winners.

One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.

Well, we can’t say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

Without gambling, I would not exist.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.

Remember this, folks – I am a Hillbilly, and I don’t always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another.

March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a ‚gentleman gambler‘ when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely… There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today’s winners are tomorrow’s blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.