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No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish read more
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
And there begins a lang digression
About the lords o' the creation.
And there begins a lang digression
About the lords o' the creation.
Whatever Sceptic could inquire for,
For every why he had a wherefore.
Whatever Sceptic could inquire for,
For every why he had a wherefore.
Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
Myself when young did eagerly frequent
Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument
About it and about: read more
Myself when young did eagerly frequent
Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument
About it and about: but evermore
Came out by the same door wherein I went.
He'd undertake to prove, by force
Of argument, a man's no horse.
He'd prove a buzzard is read more
He'd undertake to prove, by force
Of argument, a man's no horse.
He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl,
And that a Lord may be an owl,
A calf an Alderman, a goose a Justice,
And rooks, Committee-men or Trustees.
I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with
comprehension.
I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with
comprehension.
It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it.
It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it.
'Twas blow for blow, disputing inch by inch,
For one would not retreat, nor t'other flinch.
'Twas blow for blow, disputing inch by inch,
For one would not retreat, nor t'other flinch.