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Much might be said on both sides.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: in the "Spectator", no. 122
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How agree the kettle and the earthen pot together?
Author: Bible
Source: Ecclesiasticus (ch. XIII, v. 2)
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Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men
above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis
best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent
spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves
an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own.
Author: Sir Thomas Browne
Source: Religio Medici (pt. I, VI)
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The brilliant chief, irregularly great,
Frank, haughty, rash--the Rupert of debate.
Author: Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
Source: The New Timon (pt. I)
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And there begins a lang digression
About the lords o' the creation.
Author: Robert Burns
Source: The Twa Dogs
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Whatever Sceptic could inquire for,
For every why he had a wherefore.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 131)
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He'd undertake to prove, by force
Of argument, a man's no horse.
He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl,
And that a Lord may be an owl,
A calf an Alderman, a goose a Justice,
And rooks, Committee-men or Trustees.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 71)
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I've heard old cunning stagers
Say, fools for arguments use wagers.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto I, l. 297)
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'Twas blow for blow, disputing inch by inch,
For one would not retreat, nor t'other flinch.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto VIII, st. 77)
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When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter."
And proved it--'t was no matter what he said.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto XI, st. 1), an allusion to a dissertation by Berkeley on Mind and Matter found in no
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I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with
comprehension.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto XI, st. 1), an allusion to a dissertation by Berkeley on Mind and Matter found in no
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The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the
Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own
cause.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
Source: in a speech in the House of Commons
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A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Amphitryon (act I, sc. 1)
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The daughter of debate
That still discord doth sow.
Author: Elizabeth I
Source: about Mary Queen of Scots
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Reproachful speech from either side
The want of argument supplied;
They rail, reviled; as often ends
The contests of disputing friends.
Author: John Gay
Source: Fables--Ravens--Sexton and Earth Worm (pt. II, l. 117)
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I always admired Mrs. Grote's saying that politics and theology
were the only two really great subjects.
Author: Rt. Hon. William Ewart Gladstone
Source: in a letter to Lord Roseberry
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In arguing, too, the parson own'd his skill,
For even though vanquished he could argue still.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: The Deserted Village (l. 211)
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His conduct still right with his argument wrong.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: Retaliation (l. 46)
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I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects
too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are too hard for me.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: Vicar of Wakefield (ch. VII)
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In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor
with serious pleading.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: Vicar of Wakefield (ch. VII)
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Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes
Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
Author: George Herbert
Source: Temple--Church Porch (st. 52)
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I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an
understanding.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson
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Nay, if he take you in hand, sir, with an argument,
He'll bray you in a mortar.
Author: Ben Jonson
Source: The Alchemist (act II, sc. 1)
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Myself when young did eagerly frequent
Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument
About it and about: but evermore
Came out by the same door wherein I went.
Author: Omar Khayyam ("The Tent-Maker")
Source: The Rubaiyat
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There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only
argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
Author: James Russell Lowell
Source: Democracy and Other Addresses, Democracy
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To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.
Author: Seneca
Source: None
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Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
Author: Louis D. Brandeis
Source: None
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The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
Author: Edgar Watson Howe
Source: None
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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
Author: Rufus Choate
Source: None
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Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.
Author: Milan Kundera
Source: None
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Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.
Author: Nathaniel Emmons
Source: None
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A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
Author: Stephen Leacock
Source: None
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The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.
Author: Lord Quintin Hogg Hailsham
Source: None
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Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.
Author: Lebanese Proverb
Source: None
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Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.
Author: Thomas C. Haliburton
Source: None
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The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
Author: Andre Maurois
Source: None
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No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
Author: Jascha Heifetz
Source: None
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It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument.
Author: William Gibbs McAdoo
Source: None
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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
Author: Victor Hugo
Source: None
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Silence is argument carried on by other means.
Author: Che Guevara
Source: None
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You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.
Author: Edward Koch
Source: None
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Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
Author: Baltasar Gracian
Source: None
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Debate is the death of conversation.
Author: Emil Ludwig
Source: None
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"For your own good" is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.
Author: Janet Frame
Source: None
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
Author: Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
Source: None
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When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Source: None
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The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
Author: Jawaharlal Nehru
Source: None
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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Author: Josh Billings
Source: None
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It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it.
Author: Spanish Proverb
Source: None
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It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
Author: Francis Beaumont
Source: None
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