~ In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading. ~
~ Nay, if he take you in hand, sir, with an argument, He'll bray you in a mortar. ~
~ Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought. ~
~ A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better. ~
~ The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it. ~
~ It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument. ~
~ When an argument flares up, the wise man quenches it with silence ~
~ Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand ~
~ Fear not those who argue but those who dodge ~
~ I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing ~
~ An Argument needs no reason; Nor any friendship ~
~ The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is to deny that it exists ~