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Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.—ADDISON
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The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.—DALE CARNEGIE, How to Win Friends
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Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.—RUFUS CHOATE
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A knock-down argument: 'tis but a word and a blow.—DRYDEN, Amphitryon
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I always get the better when I argue alone.—GOLDSMITH
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Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.—GEORGE HERBERT, Jacula Prudenturn
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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.—VICTOR HUGO
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.—BEN JONSON
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Gratuitous violence in argument betrays a conscious weakness of the cause, and is usually a signal of despair.—JUNIUS
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Myself when young did eagerly frequent
Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument
About it and about: but evermore
Came out by the same door where in I went.—OMAR KHAYYAM, Rubaiyat
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Argument is not always truth.—LOUIS KOSSUTH
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Argument should be politic as well as logical.—LAMARTINE
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that reason is weak.—MONTAIGNE
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It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.—WILLIAM PENN
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Nothing is more certain than that arguments or instructions depend on their conciseness.—POPE
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In too much dispute truth is lost.—Proverb
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He will maintain his argument as well as any military man in the world.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry V
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And sheathed their swords for lack of argument.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry V
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If thou continuest to take delight in idle argumentation, thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists but never know how to live with men.—SOCRATES
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Argument as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation; as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.—SWIFT
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Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument.—ISAAC WATTS
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Keep cool; anger is not argument.—DANIEL WEBSTER
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I am not arguing with you—
I am telling you.—WHISTLER
