quotations about arguments & arguing
Though we cannot out-vote them, we will out-argue them.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Life of Samuel Johnson
Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won't?
L.J. SMITH
Nightfall
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
PETRARCH
To Laura in Life
Nothing firms up a friendship like a good-natured argument.
LEMONY SNICKET
Who Could That Be at This Hour?
I am not arguing with you--I am telling you.
J. MCNEILL WHISTLER
The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
A dispute begun in jest ... is continued by the desire of conquest, till vanity kindles into rage, and opposition rankles into enmity.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
The Idler, No. 23
Altogether they puzzle me quite,
They all seem wrong and they all seem right.
ROBERT BUCHANAN
Fine Weather on the Digentia
I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Life of Samuel Johnson
But yet beware of councils when too full;
Number makes long disputes.
JOHN DENHAM
Of Prudence
A keen wit stabs harder than a finely honed argument.
RACHEL HARTMAN
Tess of the Road
Argument, of course, is the whole point of history. Disagreement; my word against yours; this evidence against that. If there were such a thing as absolute truth the debate would lose its lustre. I, for one, would no longer be interested.
PENELOPE LIVELY
Moon Tiger
Debate destroys despatch.
JOHN DENHAM
Of Prudence
Data levels all arguments.
ANTHONY W. RICHARDSON
Full-Scale
Much may be said on both sides.
HENRY FIELDING
Covent Garden Tragedy
It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.
WILLIAM PENN
Fruits of Solitude
It doesn't matter if I know of what I speak
The arguer's strong if the argument's weak
It's persistance, insistence, and a nice healthy winning streak
I got the last word in, I'm happy to announce
I got the last word in and that's all that counts
SICKO
Last Word