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Quotes tagged “arguments”

“Max Goldman: You're trying to steal her away like you did Mae.

John Gustafson: Oh, well, I'll remind you, Einstein, that Mae was no prize.

Max Goldman: She was to me.

John Gustafson: I was married to the woman for 20 years, she was no prize!

Max Goldman: She was to me.

John Gustafson: Well, that's why you're a moron! If you'd had Mae you wouldn't have had Amy! And Amy was a good woman!

Max Goldman: She was the best.

John Gustafson: Yeah, and she was a darned sight more loyal than Mae ever was!

Max Goldman: Yeah!

John Gustafson: Yeah.

Max Goldman: What?

John Gustafson: What?

Max Goldman: Huh?

John Gustafson: Huh?

John Gustafson: What...?

[Both forget what they were arguing about]”
— Max Goldman, Grumpy Old Men
Tagged: arguments, Alzheimer's
“There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.”
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes
Tagged: arguments, Deep, Philosophical, Two Types Of People Trope
“Mike Baxter: Many times, you got to streamline conversations to avoid the big arguments. We do it all the time.

Vanessa Baxter: What?

Mike Baxter: Honey, married 30 years, we're in the home stretch. You might as well know, I actually like Chinese food. I just, you know, don't like watching you eat it.

Vanessa Baxter: Wow, I have been going without since '87.”
— Mike Baxter, Last Man Standing, Season 1: Take Your Daughter to Work
Tagged: Marriage, arguments, lying, Chinese Food
“Enough! I'm sorry, Mr. Schue, Ms. Sylvester, but if we wanted to hear mom and dad fight, those of us who still have two parents would just stay home on payday.”
— Finn Hudson, Glee, Season 1: Throwdown
Tagged: Parents, arguments, Dysfunctional Families, Payday
“Jill: We're keeping score.

Tim: I thought you didn't want to keep score.

Jill: Oh, is the great big, bad bowling man afraid his itty-bitty wife is going to beat him?

Tim: Is the itty-bitty wife afraid the big, bad bowling man is going to leave her in the PARKING LOT?”
— Tim Taylor, Home Improvement, Season 1: Up Your Alley
Tagged: arguments, keeping score, itty-bitty
“Jill: What, do you have rocks in your head? Don't you think?

Tim: Let's talk about who doesn't think for a minute—who drove around for two days with the oil light on?

Jill: Wait—I thought you said you weren't going to bring up the oil light.

Tim: With all those rocks in my head, sometimes I don't know what I'm sayin'!”
— Tim Taylor, Home Improvement, Season 1: Nothing More Than Feelings
Tagged: Husband-Bashing, arguments
“Tim: Jill got mad at me because I didn't listen to her.

Wilson: No, I think she got mad at you because you blew up the damn dishwasher.”
— Tim Taylor, Home Improvement, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: Mad, Listening, arguments
“Samantha Stephens: Well, I've learned something very important tonight.

Darrin Stephens: What's that?

Samantha Stephens: Never let your husband criticize on an empty stomach.”
— Samantha Stephens, Bewitched, Season 2: And Then I Wrote...
Tagged: arguments, empty stomach
“I hate when you think of something awesome you could have said about an hour after the conversation.”
— Ryan Pernofski
Tagged: Words, Conversations, arguments
“Jake: Well, maybe I don’t use my exclamation points as haphazardly as you do.

Elaine: You don’t think that someone having a baby warrants an exclamation point.

Jake: Hey look, I just chalked down the message. I didn’t know I was required to capture the mood of each caller.

Elaine: I just thought you would be a little more excited about a friend of mine having a baby.

Jake: OK, I’m excited. I just don’t happen to like exclamation points.

Elaine: Well, you know Jake, you should learn to use them. Like the way I’m talking right now, I would put an exclamation point at the end of all these sentences! On this one! And on that one!

Jake: Well, you can put one on this one: I’m leaving!”
— Elaine Benes, Seinfeld, Season 5: The Sniffing Accountant
Tagged: Exclamation Points, Breakups, arguments, Grammar Nazis
“The ego has very few arguments that can survive the power of an earnest and heartfelt prayer. ”
— Iyanla Vanzant
Tagged: Ego, arguments, survive, Power, earn, heartfelt prayer
“Elaine, can I just explain something to you very privately here? Susan and I have been together many, many times now, and just between you and me, there's really no big surprises here, so...makeup sex is all that I have left.”
— George Costanza, Seinfeld, Season 7: The Sponge
Tagged: Makeup Sex, arguments, Dead Bedrooms, Contraceptive Sponges
“You didn't have makeup sex? How could you not have makeup sex? I mean that's the best feature of the heavy relationship.”
— Jerry Seinfeld, Seinfeld, Season 7: The Postponement
Tagged: Breakups, arguments, Sex, Makeup Sex, Relationshps
“One of the problems in life is that when you're a kid, you have a certain way of working out disagreements...and those laws do not work in the adult world.”
— Jerry Seinfeld, Seinfeld, Season 1: The Robbery
Tagged: arguments, Disagreements, Conflict Resolution, Childhood, Adulthood
“negotiable, adj.: It’s important not to link our disagreements. What we have for dinner has no bearing on whether we should be together.”
— David Levithan, via twitter.com
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Love & Relationships, Disagreements, arguments
“The guiding principle of productive disagreement: argue like you’re right, listen like you’re wrong.”
— Adam Grant, via twitter.com
Tagged: productive disagreement, arguments, deliberations, guidance in arguments, discords
“It's kinda pointless to fight for what you want when what you want continues to break your heart.”
— Molly McAdams, Stealing Harper: A Taking Chances Story(A Taking Chances Novella)
Tagged: Pointless, arguments, broken, Love
“Truth springs from argument amongst friends.”
— David Hume, via Amazon
Tagged: Truth, arguments, Friends, Relationships
“Sometimes things come out of your mouth that you regret later on. Or no, not regret. You say something so razor-sharp that the person you say it to carries it around with them for the rest of their life.”
— Herman Koch, The Dinner
Tagged: Choices, Words, arguments
“In any dispute, each side thinks it’s in the right and the other side is demons.”
— Steven Pinker, via The New York Times
Tagged: Violence, arguments, humanity

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