"Wise men argue causes, and fools decide them." - Anacharsis

"Never argue with a fool - people might not know the difference." - Anonymous

"It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them." - Caron de Beaumarchais

"He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper." - Edmund Burke

"The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation." - Dale Carnegie

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

"Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side." - François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

"The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way." - Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays

"To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading." - Seneca

"If thou continuest to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men." - Socrates

"Arguments have no chance against petrified training; they wear it as little as the waves wear a cliff." - Mark Twain

"The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right." - QUINTIN MCGAREL HOGG, VISCOUNT HAILSHAM, in New York Times

"We may convince others by our arguments; but we can only persuade them by their own." - JOSEPH JOUBERT, Pensées

"There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat." - JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, Democracy and Other Addresses

"We might as well give up the fiction
That we can argue any view.
For what in me is pure Conviction
Is simple Prejudice in you."
- PHYLLIS MCGINLEY, Note to My Neighbor

"When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless." - JOHN CARDINAL NEWMAN, sermon (1893)

"Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing." - OSCAR WILDE, The Importance of Being Earnest