Argument Quotes

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Beware of long arguments and long beards. — George Santayana
I have won every argument I ever had with myself. — William Feather
Those whose cause is just will never lack good arguments. — Euripides
A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine. — Euripides
In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause. — John Milton
It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side. — Charles Dudley Warner
The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's. — Evelyn Waugh
One example is worth a thousand arguments. — William E. Gladstone
I've never won an argument with my wife; and the only time I thought I had I found out the argument wasn't over yet. — Jimmy Carter
When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter, for… — Blaise Pascal
Above all, the ability to feel the force of an argument apart from the substance it deals with is the strongest weapon against prejudice. — Jacques Barzun
The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side. — John Stuart Mill
The argument between wives and whores is an old one; each one thinking that whatever she is, at least she is not the other. — Andrea Dworkin
Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose. — Cullen Hightower
Pain is unjust, and all the arguments That cannot soothe it only rouse suspicion. — Jean Racine
There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief without the help of any other argument. — Thomas Gray
Even when I was a grown woman, he [Father] would leave me on the edge of hysteria in all our arguments: though I married and… — Maureen Howard
When an argument is over, how many weighty reasons does a man recollect which his heat and violence made him utterly forget? — Eustace Budgell
America is the longest argument in the world. — Bill Moyers
Pentagon dollars are essentially seen as a different kind of funding that doesn't have to stand for itself and make an argument for itself in… — Rachel Maddow

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