Motivational Quotes

Argument

When all are wrong, everyone is right.

- La Lehaussee

Best Quotes about Argument

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Gide, Andre

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Whately, Richard

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Koch, Edward

The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.

Jascha Heifetz

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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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

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

Adler, Larry

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Weak arguments are often thrust before my path; but although they are most insubstantial, it is not easy to destroy them. There is not a more difficult feat known than to cut through a cushion with a sword.

Whately, Richard

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

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

Joseph Farrell

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Soft words are hard arguments.

Fuller, Thomas

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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Hugo, Victor

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I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Pope, Alexander

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For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

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When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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When all are wrong, everyone is right.

La Lehaussee

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Soft words win hard hearts.

Proverb

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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

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The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

Maurois, Andre

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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.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil

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

Saadi

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

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It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Pierre Beaumarchais

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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

G. K. Chesterton

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

Proverb, Spanish

41.

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Frost, Robert

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

Antisthenes

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

Auson

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

Voltaire

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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

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Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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

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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