I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.

Dave Barry

19.

There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.

20.

There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.

Goldsmith, Oliver

21.

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

Adler, Larry

22.

That's the beauty of argument-if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.

Jason Reitman and Christopher Buckly

23.

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.

Butler, Samuel

24.

Quarrels would not last so long if the fault lay only on one side.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

He who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the argument.

Chinese Proverb

26.

If you argue with a woman and win, you lose.

27.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Louis D. Brandeis

28.

Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. his hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.

Bacon, Roger

29.

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

An argument is like a country road, you never know where it is going to lead.

31.

Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

32.

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

Acton, Lord

33.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

34.

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

35.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Hugo, Victor

36.

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

Voltaire

37.

True disputants are like true sportsman: their whole delight is in the pursuit.

Pope, Alexander

38.

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

Friedrich Nietzsche

39.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

40.

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

Layton, Irving

41.

There are usually two sides to every argument but no end.

42.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

Sarton, May

43.

The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.

Hailsham, Lord Quintin Hogg

44.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.

Whately, Richard

45.

Two dogs strive for a bone and the third one runs off with it.

Proverb

46.

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

Auson

47.

Weakness on both sides is, the motto of all quarrels.

Voltaire

48.

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.

Antisthenes

49.

I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct.

Shakespeare, William

50.

The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.

Harris, Sidney J.