When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Arguing - Arguments Quotes
The only person who listens to both sides of an argument is the fellow in the next apartment.
We must make a personal attack when there is no argumentative basis for our speech.
We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathizes with their just feelings.
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.
Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
If you spend all of your time arguing with people who are nuts, you’ll be exhausted and the nuts will still be nuts.
Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we’d never be done with it.
The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.
