Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.
Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. his hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.
I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.
There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.
The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than by the arguments of its opponents.
"For your own good" is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.
For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.
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.
A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications in the form of minor witnesses, the protagonist finally appears and contradictions arise to produce drama, and finally as both jury and spectators grow weary and confused the pace quickens, reaching its climax in passionate final argument.
The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.
Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
...the argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.
The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
Rhetoric is nothing, but reason well dressed and argument put in order.
Ridicule is the first and last argument of fools.
Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.
The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 1.
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
Silence is argument carried on by other means.