Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If someone's winning an argument wih me, I throw a funny line at him and run. — Bob Crane Copy Share Image
Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver. — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Eye-rolling is not exactly the pinnacle of socratic investigation.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Do not forget your dogs of war, your big guns, which are the most-to-be respected arguments of the rights of kings. — Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor Copy Share Image
“Don't argue with me about this." She scoffed. "Oh, this isn't an argument. That implies you might win.” — Tessa Bailey Copy Share Image
Mostly, we argued about who which of us was better at arguing, and particularly about who had won the previous argument. — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
As an explanation of the world materialism has a sort of insane simplicity. It has the quality of a madman's arguments; we… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There is such a torture, happily unknown to ancient tyranny, as talking a man to death. Marcus Aurelius advises to assent readily… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
When you argue and fight in a relationship, it is simply a test to see if the partnership is strong enough to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's one thing if you're a part of teams that won five championships. But it's an extremely different argument if you're a… — Troy Aikman Copy Share Image
It seems idle to rail at ambition merely because it is a boundless passion; or rather is not this circumstance an argument… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
CCTV is seen either as a symbol of Orwellian dystopia or a technology that will lead to crime-free streets and civil behaviour.… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
“They were arguing about something very complex and important, and neither of them could refute the other. They did not agree with… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words! — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
When we're talking about feminism, I get sort of lost in the argument. Because as a woman of color, I don't know… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Once you buy the argument that some segment of the citizenry should lose their rights, just because they are envied or resented,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
She tried to be calm, and leave things to take their course; and tried to dwell much on this argument of rational… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense; and have no other preliminaries to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I did a film about child abuse with the great producer-director Richard Donner, Radio Flyer. Again, I was replacing somebody, but Lorraine… — John Heard Copy Share Image
Those who say that the West and Islam are eternally irreconcilable have more in common with the Islam extremists than they might… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The classical argument for why a supposedly decent and moral creature like Homo sapiens can mistreat and even extirpate other species rests… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
When an argument flares up, the wise man quenches it with silence — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
