Arguing - Arguments Quotes

If you cannot reduce your argument to a few crisp words or phrases there is something wrong with your argument. There was nothing longwinded about Liberte! Egalite! Fraternite!

A legal decision depends not on the teacher’s age, but on the force of his argument.

A single fact can spoil a good argument.

Whenever you argue with one wiser than yourself, in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

Do not attempt to confute a lion after he’s dead.

My mother and father fought constantly. If it wasn’t me arguing with him, it was me bickering with her.

Beware of long arguments and long beards.

The goal of an argument should be progress, not victory.

The sergeant pleads with face on fire, and all the court may rue it; his purple garments come from Tyre; his arguments go to it.

No honest man will argue on every side.