~ Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions ~
~ Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup ~
~ If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names. ~
~ The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it ~
~ Arguments, like men are often pretenders ~
~ Arguments derived from probabilities are idle ~
~ That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not ~
~ Use soft words and hard arguments ~
~ I got in an argument with a girlfriend inside of a tent. That's a bad place for an argument, because I tried to walk out, and had to slam the flap ~
~ There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation ~
~ A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about ~
~ The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face ~