Weakness on both sides is as we know the motto of all quarrels.

Voltaire
Some Similar Quotes
  1. If you can't win by reason, go for volume. - Bill Watterson

  2. Maybe I’m strange and perverse, but I’ve always thought there was something sexy about a compelling argument. - Therese Doucet

  3. Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they're arguing. - Adam Gopnik

  4. You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words. - Elizabeth Gilbert

  5. This is what we do. Not so much argue as joust, in jest. We can't stop pushing and pulling the taffy of words and concepts. - Larry Duberstein

More Quotes By Voltaire
  1. She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.

  2. Let us work without reasoning, ' said Martin; 'it is the only way to make life endurable.

  3. Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

  4. If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.

  5. ‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

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