Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.
Arguing - Arguments Quotes
The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.
The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
An ill argument introduced with deference will procure more credit than the profoundest science with a rough, insolent, and noisy management.
We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathizes with their just feelings.
If you spend all of your time arguing with people who are nuts, you’ll be exhausted and the nuts will still be nuts.
He’d undertake to prove, by force of argument, a man’s no horse. He’d prove a buzzard is no fowl, and that a Lord may be an owl, a calf an Alderman, a goose a justice, and rooks, Committee-men or Trustees.
Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
