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When you argue with a fool, chances are he is doing just the same.

If you spend all of your time arguing with people who are nuts, you'll be exhausted and the nuts will still be nuts. "Dilbert", Scott Adams

Arguments with furniture are rarely productive.-- Kehlog Albran, "The Profit"

When two quarrel, both are to blame.... Dutch Proverb

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world. -- Joseph Addison

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. -- Pierre De Beaumarchais

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself. -- Samuel Butler

Where two discourse, if the one's anger rise, The man who lets the contest fall is wise. --Euripides (c. 485-406 BC), _Protesilaus_

Silence is argument carried on by other means. - Che Guevara (1928 &endash; 1967)

Very slender differences will sometimes part those whom long reciprocation of civility or beneficence has united. -- Samuel Johnson: Idler #23

By persuading others, we convince ourselves. ~ Franciscus Junius 1589-1677, The Letters of Junius (1768)

Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side. La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.-- Montaigne

Half the controversies in the world are verbal ones; and could they be brought to a plain issue they would be brought to a prompt termination. Parties engaged in them would then perceive either that in substance they agreed together, or that their difference was one of first principles. We need not dispute, we need not prove, we need but define. At all events, let us, if we can, do this first of all and then see who are left for us to dispute; what is left for us to prove. -- John Newman

[F]requently the more trifling the subject the more animated and protracted the discussion. Franklin Pierce (1804-1869) In "The Forbes Book of Business Quotations," by Ted Goodman, 1997

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 BC-65 AD)