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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

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

Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up

Donald Rumsfeld

Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument

Robert Half

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

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

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

Leo Durocher

Never argue; repeat your assertion

Robert Owen

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

William Penn

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

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

Jonathan Swift

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

Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief

Francesco Petrarch

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

Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement

George Burton Adams

After a heated argument on some trivial matter Nancy. shouted, If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee! Whereupon Winston answered, And if I were your husband I would drink it

John Fellows Akers

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men...the master of superstition is the people; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order

Sir Francis Bacon

The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man; for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety

Charles Robert Darwin

It is very important to make sure the person you're marrying is like minded. It's crucial for a couple to have shared goals and values. The more you have in common the less you have to argue about

Barbara Friedman

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