To every argument an equal argument is opposed.
In too many marriage conflicts, we work too hard at winning the argument and too little at winning the heart.
There's none as deaf as those who won't listen. I get letters. If they are moronic, they go in the wastepaper basket, but if they are reasonable points, I try to explain. I am planning for the long-term future. I am planning for the long-term future. People say build a team not a hotel, but that argument is irrelevant. It's like fish or meat
Remember, it takes two to make an argument. The one who is wrong is the one who will be doing most of the talking.
In matters of great concern, and which must be done, there is no surer argument of a weak mind than irresolution; to be undetermined where the case is so plain, and the necessity so urgent. To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating, and drinking, and sleeping, from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed.
The world is split into two kinds of people, those who would go out for a drink with John Lennon, and those who`'d choose Paul McCartney. . . After The Beatles came back from India, Lennon wrote "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" and McCartney wrote "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da. " End of argument.
It's all very boring to say that we get along great and all that and sometimes we mock up come aggravation to make it interesting but the truth of it is that we get along so well we've never had an argument.
We are pleased with one who instantly assents to our opinions, but we love a proselyte.
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
The abuse of a thing is no argument against the use of it.
He always had a chip on his shoulder that he was ready to use to kindle an argument.
There's no winning arguments with your parents
There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his deathbed.
That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting.
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
Has anyone ever won an argument with you? (Syd) Just Tee, and I was drunk and wounded at the time. (Joe)
Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order.
If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.
It is a seldom proffered argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping the government itself informed as to what the government is doing.
When we would show any one that he is mistaken, our best course is to observe on what side he considers the subject,--for his view of if is generally right on this side,--and admit to him that he is right so far. He will be satisfied with this acknowledgment, that he was not wrong in his judgment, but only inadvertent in not looking at the whole case.