Arguments, like men are often pretenders.
Plato

When an argument flares up, the wise man quenches it with silence.
Anonymous

Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can’t understand.
Cardinal de Retz

Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
Anonymous

If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
Elbert Hubbard

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Dale Carnegie

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Josh Billings

I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
Oscar Wilde

Love is saying ‘I feel differently’ instead of ‘You’re wrong.
Anonymous

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
George Bernard Shaw

Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Oscar Wilde

Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.
Plato

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.
Thomas Paine

I love argument, I love debate. I don’t expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that’s not their job.
Margaret Thatcher

Use soft words and hard arguments.
English Proverb

I got in an argument with a girlfriend inside of a tent. That’s a bad place for an argument, because I tried to walk out, and had to slam the flap.
Mitch Hedberg

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance – that principle is contempt prior to investigation.
Herbert Spencer

An Argument needs no reason; Nor any friendship.
Ibycus

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
Miguel de Unamuno

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.
Sydney J. Harris

The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is to deny that it exists.
Henry Louis Mencken

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have.
American Proverb

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
Joseph Conrad

Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.
Rodney Dangerfield

Don’t take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
Baltasar Gracian

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
John Locke

Many can argue; not many converse.
Amos Bronson Alcott

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
Franz Kafka

Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
Charles Caleb Colton

Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You’d be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.
Judith S. Marin

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
Richard Whately

Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form.
Immanuel Kant

You argue with the umpire because there is nothing else you can do about it.
Leo Durocher

When the philosopher’s argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.
Edward Abbey

I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.
Katharine Butler Hathaway

Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.
Donald Rumsfeld

In science it often happens that scientists say, ‘You know that’s a really good argument; my position is mistaken’, and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn’t happen.
Dr. Carl Sagan

When you let someone else win an argument, often you both end up winners.
Richard Carlson

Convincing yourself doesn’t win an argument.
Robert Hal

The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won’t hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.
Earl Weaver

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.
Marie Dressler

There’s a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.
Dennis Prager

I have heard many arguments which influenced my opinion, but never one which influenced my vote.
James Fergusson

No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the arguments of its supporters are, to a great extent, nonsensical.
Thomas Henry Huxley

Never argue; repeat your assertion.
Robert Owen

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
Wendell Berry

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.
Booth Tarkington

It is impossible to win an argument with an ignorant man.
Anonymous

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

There are two sides to every argument, unless a person is personally involved, in which case there is only one.
Cutler Webster

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.
William Penn

Arguments with furniture are rarely productive.
Kehlog Albran

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading.
Jonathan Swift

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
Samuel Butler

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

There’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
Rose F. Kennedy

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.
Joseph Addison

An argument derived from the abuse of a thing does not hold good against its use.
Latin Proverb

He would argue the moon was blue.
Proverb

Facts are God’s arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.
Tryon Edwards

That statement is no longer operative.
Anonymous

If you won’t listen to me at least listen to reason.
Anonymous

We may convince others by our arguments; but we can only persuade them by their own.
Joseph Joubert

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.
Charles Caleb Colton

Even if the committee carried the message in the exact words with no words missing, but left out the persuasion of gesture, the supplicating tone, and the beseeching looks which inform the words and give them life, where then were the power of the arguments and whom would it convince?
Joan of Arc

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.
Lebanese Proverb

Since when was an emotional argument won by logic?
Robert A. Heinlein

Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
Francesco Petrarch

The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably.
Anita Ekberg

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
Samuel Johnson

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
James Russell Lowell