Motivational Quotes

Argument

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

Best Quotes about Argument

1.

When all are wrong, everyone is right.

La Lehaussee

2.

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

Pope, Alexander

3.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

4.

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

5.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

6.

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

Koch, Edward

7.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Butler, Samuel

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

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

12.

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

Saadi

13.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

14.

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

Jason Reitman and Christopher Buckly

15.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Gide, Andre

16.

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

Swift, Jonathan

17.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Joubert, Joseph

18.

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

19.

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

Antisthenes

20.

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

21.

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

Prior, Matthew

22.

When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

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 often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

Auson

25.

The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

26.

Soft words are hard arguments.

Fuller, Thomas

27.

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

Hailsham, Lord Quintin Hogg

28.

Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.

Anacharsis

29.

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

Lowell, James Russell

30.

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle it without debate.

Joubert, Joseph

31.

With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

William Lloyd Garrison

32.

Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument.

Fuller, Thomas

33.

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

34.

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

Chinese Proverb

35.

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

Voltaire

36.

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.

37.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

38.

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

Joseph Farrell

39.

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

40.

It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.

Colton, Charles Caleb

41.

Soft words win hard hearts.

Proverb

42.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Hugo, Victor

43.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

44.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Frost, Robert

45.

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

46.

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

Whately, Richard

47.

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

Dennett, Daniel

48.

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

49.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

50.

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