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.
Arguing - Arguments Quotes
Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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.
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.
