My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
Jack Benny

Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.
Omar Khayyam

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
Samuel Butler

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
Voltaire

Never get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, "Who do you think you are?"
Ray Combs

Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof.
Isaac Mayer Wise

No matter what side of an argument you're on, you always find some people on your side that wish you were on the other side.
Jascha Heifetz

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
Thomas Berger

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.
Marilyn Ferguson

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
Karl Popper

No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights.
Vladimir Putin

Observe which side resorts to the most vociferous name-calling and you are likely to have identified the side with the weaker argument and they know it.
Charles R. Anderson

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
Thomas Hardy

On the other hand, it is not fair to say that changes in federal policy have caused our tuition to rise faster. Every economic argument imaginable would indicate that we should raise tuition at a faster rate than we do.
Charles Vest

One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.
David F. Houston

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared.
Barack Obama

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.
Barack Obama

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
Will Rogers

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
Hosea Ballou

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.
Charles Simmons