Quotations about

Argument

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

—Josh Billings

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

—Josh Billings

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

—Harry S. Truman

The Duke of Cambridge protested that he wasn't arguing against change. He favored it, he said, when there was no alternative.

—Unknown

Tis an ill wind that blows no minds.

—Malaclypse the Younger

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

—Friedrich Nietzsche

Violence stinks no matter which side of it you're on. But now and then there's nothing left to do but hit the other person over the head with a frying pan.

—Tom Robbins

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms.

—Ayn Rand

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

—Cathy Ladman

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

—Chinese proverb

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

—Dave Barry

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.

—English proverb

Use soft words and hard arguments.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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

—Joseph Farrell

That's the beauty of argument-if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.

—Josh Billings