Maimonides

Footnotes are just arguments that learned how to wear shoes.

At least I defended my position in public. You’d rather win by footnote and smugness.

Between the two of you, one talks in chapters and one talks in sermons; I prefer not to lose my afternoon.

I was efficient. You needed 12 volumes to say 'reason is useful.'

Says the man who wrote a medical guide, a law code, and still had time to be unbearable about it.