| Author |
Quotes |
| Joseph Addison | Much might be said on both sides. |
| Josh Billings | Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. |
| Lebanese Proverb | Lower your voice and strengthen your argument. |
| Louis D Brandeis | Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff. |
| Michel Eyquem De Montaign | He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. |
| Miguel De Unamuno | When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid -- in which case all comment is superfluous -- or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem. |
| Milan Kundera | Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought. |
| Nathaniel Emmons | Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments. |
| Oliver Goldsmith | In arguing, too, the parson own'd his skill, For even though vanquished he could argue still. |
| Oliver Goldsmith | His conduct still right with his argument wrong. |
| Oliver Goldsmith | I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are too hard for me. |
| Oliver Goldsmith | In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading. |
| Omar Khayyam | Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument About it and about: but evermore Came out by the same door wherein I went. |
| Robert Burns | And there begins a lang digression About the lords o' the creation. |
| William Ewart Gladstone | I always admired Mrs. Grote's saying that politics and theology were the only two really great subjects. |
| Rufus Choate | Neither irony or sarcasm is argument. |
| Samuel Butler | Whatever Sceptic could inquire for, For every why he had a wherefore. |
| Samuel Butler | 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. |
| Samuel Butler | I've heard old cunning stagers Say, fools for arguments use wagers. |
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