Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard.
I have heard talk and talk, but nothing is done.
Never answer a hypothetical question. It gets you beyond where you want to be.
I can think of nothing worse than a think-tank where everybody agreed.
Washington is a black hole into which all sanity is sucked out of government deliberations.
I find myself sick to death, tired of arguing about details with people who don't know basic facts.
The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.