Quotes About Argument

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

So many laws argue so many sins.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

There is no study of human nature more interesting than the aspects of the same subject seen in the points of view of different characters. One might almost imagine that there were no such thing as absolute truth, since a change of situation or temperament is capable of changing the whole force of an argument.

confrontation while lounging in bed.

The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.

There is nothing more amusing than when two people known for being non-objective argue over objectivity. This is the summation of Keith Olbermann vs. Ted Koppell.

When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period.

You argue with the umpire because there is nothing else you can do about it.

The part of the game that fans will soon miss: the argument between manager and umpire! There was something special about watching a manger and umpire both convinced they were totally right, but knowing that one had to be wrong. As an ump, those moments made my job fun, and getting 'nose-to-nose' was part of my job description.

Most umpires are good about letting the argument go, but you can only go on for so long, or go so far. If you don't leave it alone after a minute or two, you're in trouble. They want to keep the game moving, so they've got to throw you out. I had trouble leaving it alone, I guess.

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

I know better than to get in between three women arguing. If you'll remember, the whole Trojan War started over that. (Wulf)

A noisy man is always in the right.

There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't.

Saddam is a war criminal and there are no two people who can argue over this.

When an objection cannot be made formidable, there is some policy in trying to make it frightful; and to substitute the yell and the war-whoop, in the place of reason, argument and good order.

They will conquer but they will not convince.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

When proven wrong, the wise man will correct himself and the ignorant will keep arguing.

Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.