Quotes about Argument

"Wise men argue cases, fools decide them."
-- Anacharsis

"The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it."
-- Edgar Watson Howe

"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers."
-- Larry Adler

"Behind every argument is someone's ignorance."
-- Louis D. Brandeis

"Fear not those who argue but those who dodge."
-- Marie EbnerEschenbach

"In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing."
-- Matthew Prior

"I had a lovers quarrel with the world."
-- Robert Frost

"Neither irony or sarcasm is argument."
-- Rufus Choate

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

"Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear."
-- Thomas C. Haliburton

"Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause."
-- Victor Hugo