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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
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Best Quotes about Argument

1.
In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
Prior, Matthew

2.
Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about
Benchley, Robert

3.
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

4.
Soft words are hard arguments.
Fuller, Thomas

5.
When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

6.
The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
Adler, Larry

7.
If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.
Joseph Farrell

8.
You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.
Koch, Edward

9.
I learned an important lesson in the art of debate. Present your argument clearly, arm yourself with cutting wit and of course, bob and weave!
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

10.
When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
Pope, Alexander

11.
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

12.
We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.
Antisthenes

13.
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
Friedrich Nietzsche

14.
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

15.
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
G. K. Chesterton

16.
Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.
Auson

17.
Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
Gide, Andre

18.
True disputants are like true sportsman: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
Pope, Alexander

19.
There are usually two sides to every argument but no end.

20.
There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
Dennett, Daniel

21.
That's the beauty of argument-if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.
Jason Reitman and Christopher Buckly

22.
Weakness on both sides is, the motto of all quarrels.
Voltaire

23.
When good people have a falling out, only one of them may be at fault at first; but if the strife continues long, usually both become guilty.
Fuller, Thomas

24.
Two dogs strive for a bone and the third one runs off with it.
Proverb

25.
Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
Saadi

26.
A long dispute means that both parties are wrong
Voltaire

27.
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

28.
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
Hugo, Victor

29.
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

30.
Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.
Emmons, Nathaniel

31.
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.

32.
Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
Louis D. Brandeis

33.
There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.

34.
An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
Jefferson, Thomas

35.
He who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the argument.
Chinese Proverb

36.
Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading.
Swift, Jonathan

37.
Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.
Haliburton, Thomas C.

38.
I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
Frost, Robert

39.
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle it without debate.
Joubert, Joseph

40.
A sure way of getting the last word in an argument is to say you right.

41.
Debate is the death of conversation.
Ludwig, Emil

42.
Quarrels would not last so long if the fault lay only on one side.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.
When all are wrong, everyone is right.
La Lehaussee

44.
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
Whately, Richard

45.
It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it.
Proverb, Spanish

46.
There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.
Goldsmith, Oliver

47.
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
William G. McAdoo

48.
In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.
Publilius Syrus

49.
The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
Ayn Rand

50.
It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
Colton, Charles Caleb


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