A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
Miguel de Unamuno

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
Milton Friedman

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.
Joyce Cary

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
Salman Rushdie

A review was published in Nature, very scathing, essentially calling me incompetent, though they didn't use that word. I am putting a reply on my Web site in a few days, where I go through their arguments, paragraph by paragraph.
Bjorn Lomborg

A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot.
John McCarthy

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.
Peter Singer

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
Samuel Johnson

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.
Marie Dressler

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
Tertullian

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
Oscar Wilde

Arguments are healthy. They clear the air.
John Deacon

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Oscar Wilde

Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.
Donald Rumsfeld

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.
Booth Tarkington

Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
Jack Lynch

Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them.
Thomas Dekker

As for the assertion that nuclear weapons prevent wars, how many more wars are needed to refute this arguments? Tens of millions have died in the many wars that have taken place since 1945.
Joseph Rotblat

Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.
Marilyn vos Savant