There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

James Russell Lowell
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  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 James Russell Lowell
  1. Fate loves the fearless.

  2. Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.

  3. Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

  4. In creating the only hard thing's to begin

  5. A wise man travels to discover himself.

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