Sam Ewing Quotes

The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.

Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one.

There is nothing that a New-Englander so nearly worships as an argument.

I like arguments.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Scholars will argue with each other about everything.

It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.

I love to argue. I've always loved to argue. And I love to point out the weaknesses of the opposing arguments. It may well be that I'm something of a shin kicker. It may well be that I'm something of a contrarian.

Some people you struggle to argue with - they've got a lot of strong backing to what they say and what they do.

I would never say don't have an argument.

Argument is to me the air I breathe.

There are three sides to every argument. Yours. The other guy's. And the right side.

God, Bones, you must have argued yourself blue in the face.

Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.

Without agreement you just have people arguing.

I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument.

A definition is the start of an argument, not the end of one.

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

It is said that an argument is what convinces reasonable men and a proof is what it takes to convince even an unreasonable man.

In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence.

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

There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.

One can always debate questions back and forth.