arguing quotes

In arguing too, the parson owned his skill, For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still; While words of learned length, and thund'ring sound Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around, And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew.

- Oliver Goldsmith
  The Deserted Village, l.211^16.

Where there is much to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, muchwriting, manyopinions; foropinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

-John Milton
  Areopagitica: a speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing.

I am not arguing with youI am telling you.

-James (Abbott) McNeill Whistler
  The GentleArt of Making Enemies.