For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.
William Shakespeare
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No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
Jascha Heifetz
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If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.
Joseph Farrell
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Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
Louis D. Brandeis
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Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Oscar Wilde
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It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
Pierre Beaumarchais
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In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.
Publilius Syrus
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The argument is at an end.
Saint Augustine
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It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
William G. McAdoo
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With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
William Lloyd Garrison
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
G. K. Chesterton
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The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
Friedrich Nietzsche The Gay Science, section 191
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I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.
Dave Barry
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He who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the argument.
Chinese Proverb
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
Ayn Rand The Virtue of Selfishness, 1964
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It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarian is, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
William Ralph Inge The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
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Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.
Samuel Johnson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
Irving Layton Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
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Wearily the sentry moves
Muttering the one word: Peace.
Richard Aldington, from Picket The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations
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The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
Dale Carnegie Body, Mind and Spirit
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For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Words for All Occasions
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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrows.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Power Quotes
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If you sow arrows, you will reap sorrows.
Phillipine proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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