Motivational Quotes

Argument

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

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Best Quotes about Argument

1.

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

2.

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

Koch, Edward

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Whately, Richard

7.

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

Voltaire

8.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Gide, Andre

9.

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

Layton, Irving

10.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

11.

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

Prior, Matthew

12.

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

Adler, Larry

13.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

14.

Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil

15.

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

16.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

17.

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

Pope, Alexander

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Joubert, Joseph

21.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

22.

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

23.

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

Saadi

24.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

25.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Frost, Robert

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

30.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

31.

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

32.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

33.

Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.

Anacharsis

34.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Butler, Samuel

35.

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

36.

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

Proverb, Spanish

37.

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

Chinese Proverb

38.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

39.

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