1. Arguments out of a petty mouth are unanswerable.
-Addison
2. Many can argue; not many converse.
-Alcott
3. Wise men argue causes, and fools decide them.
-Anacharsis
4. When Bishop Berkeley said,"there was no matter", and proved it-'twas no matter what he said.
-Byron, Don Juan
5. Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.
-Rufus Choate
6. I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but no with comprehension.
-Disraeli
7. How agree the kettle and the earthen pot together?
-Ecclesiastes. XIII. 2
8. Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
-Victor Hugo
9. Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.
-Ingersoll
10. 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 where in I went.
-Omar Khayyam
Rubaiyat
11. Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
-Whately
12. When people agree with me I always fell that I must be wrong.
-Wilde, The Critic as an
Artist
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