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In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor
with serious pleading.
In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor
with serious pleading.
Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.
Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
Silence is argument carried on by other means.
Silence is argument carried on by other means.
I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an
understanding.
I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an
understanding.
Nay, if he take you in hand, sir, with an argument,
He'll bray you in a mortar.
Nay, if he take you in hand, sir, with an argument,
He'll bray you in a mortar.
Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.
Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.
The brilliant chief, irregularly great,
Frank, haughty, rash--the Rupert of debate.
The brilliant chief, irregularly great,
Frank, haughty, rash--the Rupert of debate.
His conduct still right with his argument wrong.
His conduct still right with his argument wrong.
