"There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries."

"Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose that you resolved to effect."

"All's well that ends well...."

"Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word."

"A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm."

"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions."

"If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself."

"Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing."

"No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other."

"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments."

"The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion."

"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument."