The argument of the weak. [ Sheridan ]
Argument is not always truth. [ Kossuth ]
A wager is a fool's argument. [ Proverb ]
Assassination is not argument. [ Castelar ]
A man convinced against his will
Is of the same opinion still. [ Butler ]
Keep cool. Anger is not argument. [ Daniel Webster ]
Abuse is no argument against use. [ Proverb ]
Many can argue; not many converse. [ Alcott ]
On argument alone my faith is built. [ Young ]
Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument. [ Rufus Choate ]
Rightly to be great
Is not to stir without great argument,
But greatly to find quarrel in a straw
When honour's at the stake. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]
In excessive altercation truth is lost. [ Publius Syrus ]
Who shall decide when doctors disagree,
And sound casuists doubt like you and me? [ Pope ]
There is no argument like that of a stick. [ Spanish Proverb ]
I always get the better when I argue alone. [ Goldsmith ]
Silence is less injurious than a weak reply. [ Colton ]
Standing in a case; position in an argument.
Wise men argue causes, and fools decide them. [ Anacharsis ]
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. [ Victor Hugo ]
Argument should be politic as well as logical. [ Lamartine ]
His conduct still right with his argument wrong. [ Goldsmith ]
Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable. [ Addison ]
A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow. [ Dryden ]
All argument will vanish before one touch of Nature. [ Colman ]
The abuse of a thing is no argument against its use. [ Law Max ]
Rightly to be great is not to stir without great argument. [ William Shakespeare ]
The abuse of a thing is no argument for its discontinuance. [ Law ]
Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice. [ R. G. Ingersoll ]
True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily;
False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argument. [ Tupper ]
Argument seldom convinces any one contrary to his inclinations. [ Proverb ]
Necessity is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. [ W. Pitt ]
He who is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion. [ Richard Whately ]
Argument does not soften, but rather hardens, the obdurate heart. [ Dewey ]
One single positive weighs more. You know, than negatives a score. [ Prior ]
No argument can be drawn from the abuse of a thing against its use. [ Latin ]
Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them. [ Thomas Decker ]
Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order. [ Jeremy Collier ]
Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument. [ Dr. Watts ]
In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause. [ Milton ]
Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy. [ Herbert ]
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that reason is weak. [ Montaigne ]
I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding. [ Samuel Johnson ]
They that are more frequent to dispute be not always the best able to determine. [ Hooker ]
He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. [ William Shakespeare ]
Often most telling and often most unfair; stimulated by want of a juster argument. [ W. R. Alger ]
Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument. [ South ]
Anger is not only the prevailing sin of argument, but its greatest stumbling-block. [ Gladstone ]
In argument similes are like songs in love; they much describe; they nothing prove. [ Prior ]
I have been reasoning all my life, and find that all argument will vanish before one touch of Nature. [ Colman ]
In matters of great concern, and which must be done, there is no surer argument of a weak mind than irresolution. [ Tillotson ]
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves. [ William Pitt ]
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek. [ William Shakespeare ]
Never argue. In society nothing must be: give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation. [ Beaconsfield ]
Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness. [ Wilkins ]
Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader. [ Adam Clarke ]
Intellectually the difficulties of unbelief are as great as those of belief, while morally the argument is wholly on the side of belief. [ Dr. T. Arnold ]
The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb. [ Beaconsfield ]
Charity balls are a curse. The name is a subtle argument in favor of their existence, but if ever anything belied its name, it is a charity ball. [ Geo. F. Hall ]
Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass? [ Montaigne ]
Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine love. [ Hosea Ballou ]
What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our pleasure we have more. [ Greville ]
A man who allows himself to be convinced by an argument is a thoroughly unreasonable person, which accounts for so much in women that their husbands never appreciate in them. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it. [ Ben Jonson ]
We so converse every night with the image of death that every morning we find an argument of the resurrection. Sleep and death have but one mother, and they have one name in common. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse. [ Tuckerman ]
Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness prevents vision, too great prolixity or brevity weakens an argument, too much pleasure gives pain, too much accordance annoys. [ Pascal ]
Those orators who give us much noise and many words, but little argument and less wit, and who are the loudest when least lucid, should take a lesson from the great volume of nature; she often gives us the lightning without the thunder, but never the thunder without the lightning. [ Burritt ]
The productions of the press, fast as steam can make and carry them, go abroad through all the land, silent as snowflakes, but potent as thunder. It is an additional tongue of steam and lightning, by which a man speaks his first thought, his instant argument or grievance, to millions in a day. [ Chapin ]
It is impossible to combat enthusiasm with reason; for though it makes a show of resistance, it soon eludes the pressure, refers you to distinctions not to be understood, and feelings which it cannot explain. A man who would endeavor to fix an enthusiast by argument might as well attempt to spread quicksilver with his finger. [ Goldsmith ]