Argument Quotes - Page 8
Graeme Kent, Eric Kincaid, Aesop (1990). “Aesop's fables: a collection of Aesop's fables”, Checkerboard Pr
Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.126, Penguin
Suzanne Enoch (2011). “A Beginner's Guide to Rakes”, p.195, Macmillan
In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 441 (20July 1763)
"Dictionary of American Maxims". Book by David George Plotkin, 1955.
Lewis H. Lapham (1997). “Waiting for the Barbarians”, p.64, Verso
Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order.
Jeremy Collier, Thomas Lathbury (1852). “An Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain: Chiefly of England: from the First Planting of Christianity, to the End of the Reign of King Charles the Second ; with a Brief Account of the Affairs of Religion in Ireland Collected from the Best Ancient Historians, Councils, and Records”, p.440
Blaine Josten, Jane Austen (2015). “Blaine Josten's Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (Annotated)”, p.36, BookBaby
Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument.
Isaac Watts (1743). “The Improvement of the Mind”, p.155
Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.
George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.412
"Problems of Life and Mind, First Series: The Foundations of a Creed". Book by George Henry Lewes. Volume 1, p. 7, 1874.
George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”
Emile Durkheim (2005). “Suicide: A Study in Sociology”, p.124, Routledge
I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.
Douglas Adams (2009). “Life, the Universe and Everything”, p.65, Pan Macmillan
It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.
Charles Dudley Warner (1870). “My Summer in a Garden”, p.120