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Arguments
To strive with an equal
is dangerous; with a
superior, mad; with
an inferior, degrading.
?Seneca
Behind every argument is
someone's ignorance.
?Louis D. Brandeis
The sounder your argument, the
more satisfaction you get out of it.
?Edgar Watson Howe
Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
?Rufus Choate
Nothing requires a greater
effort of thought than arguments to
justify the rule of non-thought.
?Milan Kundera
Any fact is better established
by two or three good testimonies
than by a thousand arguments.
?Nathaniel Emmons
A half truth, like half a brick, is always
more forcible as an argument
than a whole one. It carries better.
?Stephen Leacock
The best way I know of to win an
argument is to start by being in the right.
?Lord Quintin Hogg Hailsham
Lower your voice and
strengthen your argument.
?Lebanese Proverb
Hear one side and you will be in the
dark. Hear both and all will be clear.
?Thomas C. Haliburton
The difficult part in an argument is not to
defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
?Andre Maurois
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
It is impossible to defeat an
ignorant man in an argument.
?William Gibbs McAdoo
Strong and bitter words
indicate a weak cause.
?Victor Hugo
Silence is argument carried on by other means.
?Che Guevara
You punch me, I punch back. I do
not believe it's good for ones
self-respect to be a punching bag.
?Edward Koch
Don't take the wrong side of an
argument just because your opponent
has taken the right side.
?Baltasar Gracian
Debate is the death of conversation.
?Emil Ludwig
"For your own good" is a persuasive
argument that will eventually make
a man agree to his own destruction.
?Janet Frame
He who establishes his argument by noise
and command shows that his reason is weak.
?Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
When you have no basis for an
argument, abuse the plaintiff.
?Marcus Tullius Cicero
The purely agitation attitude
is not good enough for a detailed
consideration of a subject.
?Jawaharlal Nehru
Silence is one of the hardest
arguments to refute.
?Josh Billings
It takes two to quarrel,
but only one to end it.
?Spanish Proverb
It is more noble by silence
to avoid an injury than by
argument to overcome it.
?Francis Beaumont
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
?William Shakespeare
If you can't answer a man's
arguments, all is not lost; you can
still call him vile names.
?Elbert Green Hubbard
When a thing is said to be not
worth refuting you may be sure
that either it is flagrantly stupid --
in which case all comment is
superfluous -- or it is something formidable,
the very crux of the problem.
?Miguel De Unamuno
The best argument is that which
seems merely an explanation.
?Dale Carnegie
