~ You argue with the umpire because there is nothing else you can do about it ~
~ Never argue; repeat your assertion ~
~ Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers ~
~ We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself ~
~ Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. ~
~ There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear ~
~ Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable ~
~ Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading ~
~ 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 ~
~ 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 ~
~ Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief ~
~ There is no good in arguing with the inevitable The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat ~