The argument is at an end. -- Saint Augustine

I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me. -- Dave Barry

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. -- Pierre Beaumarchais

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. -- Josh Billings

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

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion. -- G. K. Chesterton

My dear sir, they don't debate. Each of them merely issues an ultimatum, and in what a tone! It all goes to show what extraordinary people they are, each more unequivocal than the other. -- Colette

There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear. -- Daniel Dennett

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right. -- Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself. -- Joseph Farrell

With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. -- William Lloyd Garrison

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other. -- Jascha Heifetz

Truth springs from argument amongst friends. -- David Hume

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. -- Jonathan Kozol

My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years. -- Cathy Ladman

Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs. -- Jack Lynch

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. -- William G. McAdoo

Life is a quest and love a quarrel ... -- Edna St. Vincent Millay

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

He who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the argument. -- Chinese Proverb

Use soft words and hard arguments. -- English Proverb

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence. -- Ayn Rand

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments. -- William Shakespeare

Argument is the worst sort of conversation. -- Jonathan Swift

In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth. -- Publilius Syrus

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. -- Leonardo da Vinci

Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing. -- Oscar Wilde

When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument. -- Virginia Woolf

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