Argument

Argument

That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong. 

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one. 

Be calm in arguing for fierceness makes error a fault and truth discourtesy. 

Exhausting someone in argument is not the same as convincing him. 

Arguing is the Olympics of talking. 

Sometimes, silence is the best way to win an argument. 

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge, argument an exchange of ignorance. 

Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up. 

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect. 

Arguments are often like melodramas, they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end. 

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion. 

I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument. 

It's amazing how far the arguments can go. 

Argument need not be heated; it can be punctuated with courteous smiles or sympathetic tears. 

The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face. 

The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right. 

There can be no progress without head-on confrontation. 

It's hard to win an argument with a smart person, but it'd damn near impossible to win an argument with a stupid person. 

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it. 

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff. 

I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it. 

To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization. 

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. 

Winning an argument is losing it as it makes the loser feel bad. 

Argument is between two sides or individuals, never say silly to your friend because he/she never argue on oneself. 

If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless. 

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. 

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. 

I'd rather lose an argument to you, than lose you to an argument. 

Arguments have no chance against petrified (frightened) training; they wear it as little as the waves wear a cliff. 

Arguments, like men, are often pretenders (claimants). 

You cannot control the thought, but you can control the tongue. 

If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself. 

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing. 

Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear. 

That awkward moment when you're in middle of an argument and you realize you're wrong. 

No sensible man ever engages unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman. 

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. 

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours. 

Never argue when you're winning. 

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it. 

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence, he is just using his memory. 

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it. 

Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself. 

Women get the last word in every argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument. 

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.