An ill argument introduced with deference will procure more credit than the profoundest science with a rough, insolent, and noisy management.
Arguing - Arguments Quotes
That’s a definition, not a theorem. That means you don’t argue with it; you just write it down and memorize it.
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
The elaborate argument… does not need an elaborate answer.
Debate is the death of conversation.
Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.
Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we’d never be done with it.
The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.
A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.
Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced.
