Quotes

• Whenever you feel intimidated, remember: an amateur made the Ark, but a professional made the Titanic (Verna Wilkins, publisher)
• He always had a chip on his shoulder that he was ready to kindle into an argument. (Fred Allen)
• There is no arguing with Johnson, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it (Oliver Goldsmith)
• It is the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on cross-breeding, grows better for being stepped on. (Ursula Le Guin)
• Chairman of the Committee: 'That's an excellent suggestion, Miss Triggs. Perhaps one of the men here would like to make it.' (Riana Duncan, Punch)
• As the Prime Minister developed her case she, as it were, autofed her own indignation. It was a prototypical example of an argument with a woman - no rational sequence, associative, lateral thinking, jumping the rails the whole time. (Alan Clark of Margaret Thatcher, PM)
• Build your adversary a golden bridge to retreat across (Sun Tzu)