Debate is the death of conversation.

Debate is the death of conversation.

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes
Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes
Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.

If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.

The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.

He'd undertake to prove, by force
Of argument, a man's no horse.
He'd prove a buzzard is read more

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.

And there begins a lang digression
About the lords o' the creation.

And there begins a lang digression
About the lords o' the creation.

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only
argument available with an east wind is to read more

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only
argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.