Argument Quotes
58 quotations about Argument
Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.
The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.
Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.
I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
Soft words are hard arguments.
Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.
Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.
The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle it without debate.
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
Authors on Argument
Joseph Addison
Larry Adler
Anacharsis
Auson
Pierre De Beaumarchais
Louis D. Brandeis
Thomas Carlyle
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Marcus T. Cicero
Charles Caleb Colton
Daniel Dennett
Marie Ebner-Eschenbach
Nathaniel Emmons
English Proverb
Robert Frost
Thomas Fuller
Andre Gide
Lord Quintin Hogg Hailsham
Thomas C. Haliburton
Edgar Watson Howe