There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
Arguing - Arguments Quotes
The elaborate argument… does not need an elaborate answer.
Debate is the death of conversation.
First settle what the case is, before you argue it.
When a man argues for victory and not for truth, he is sure to just one ally, that is the devil. Not the defeat of the intellect, but the acceptance of the heat is the only true object of the spirit.
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.
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
We arg’ed the thing at breakfast, we arg’ed the thing at tea, And the more we arg’ed the question, the more we didn’t agree.
