"The Gods have not ordained hunger to be our death: even to the well-fed man comes death in varied shape, The riches of the liberal never waste away, while he who will not give finds none to comfort him, The man with food in store who, when the needy comes in miserable case begging for bread to eat, Hardens his heart against him, when of old finds not one to comfort him. Bounteous is he who gives unto the beggar who comes to him in want of food, and the feeble, Success attends him in the shout of battle. He makes a friend of him in future troubles, No friend is he who to his friend and comrade who comes imploring food, will offer nothing. Let the rich satisfy the poor implorer, and bend his eye upon a longer pathway, Riches come now to one, now to another, and like the wheels of cars are ever rolling, The foolish man wins food with fruitless labour: that food – I speak the truth – shall be his ruin, He feeds no trusty friend, no man to love him. All guilt is he who eats with no partaker."

"Do not oppress the orphans and do not reject the beggars."

"My eye no longer wells up at the shame of those who beg; my hand became too hard for the trembling of filled hands. Where have the tears of my eye and the down of my heart gone? Oh loneliness of all bestowers! Oh muteness of all who shine! Many suns revolve in desolate space. To everything that is dark they speak with their light – to me they are mute. Oh this is the enmity of light toward that which shines; mercilessly it goes its orbit. Unjust in its deepest heart toward that which shines: cold toward suns – thus every sun goes. Like a storm the suns fly their orbit, that is their motion. They follow their inexorable will; that is their coldness. Oh it is you only, you dark ones, you nocturnal ones, who create warmth out of that which shines! Oh it is you only who drink milk and refreshment from the udders of light! Alas, ice surrounds me, my hand burns itself on iciness! Alas, there is thirst in me that yearns for your thirst!"

"Der wahre Bettler ist Doch einzig und allein der wahre König."

"Borgen ist nicht viel besser als betteln."

"He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, "To get practice in being refused.""

"Beggars are a sure indicator that there are no Christians, or else very few and dispirited ones, in any town in which beggars are seen."

"A man may be reputed an able man this year, and yet be a beggar the next; it is a misfortune that happens to many men, and his former reputation will signify nothing."

"A shamefaced man makes a bad beggar."

"Be they wynners or loosers,…beggers should be no choosers."

"It is an affirmative command to give tzedaka to the poor of Israel. ... Anyone who sees a poor man begging alms and turns away his glance from him and does not give him tzedaka transgresses a negative command, as it is said, "You shall not harden your heart nor shut your hand to your needy brother" (Deuteronomy 15:7)."

"Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn."

"Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride a gallop."

"Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did "go from door to door and sing ballads, with a company of boys about him.""

"BEGGAR, n. One who has relied on the assistance of his friends."

"BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given."

"Seria risu risum, seriis discutere."

"You can't win an argument by being right, either"

"Agreed to differ."

"Soon their crude notions with each other fought; The adverse sect denied what this had taught; And he at length the amplest triumph gain'd, Who contradicted what the last maintain'd."

"One single positive weighs more, You know, than negatives a score."

"In argument Similes are like songs in love: They must describe; they nothing prove."

"In some places he draws the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument."

"Demosthenes, when taunted by Pytheas that all his arguments "smelled of the lamp," replied, "Yes, but your lamp and mine, my friend, do not witness the same labours.""

"Discors concordia."

"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."

"There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat."

"Nay, if he take you in hand, sir, with an argument, He'll bray you in a mortar."

"I always admired Mrs. Grote's saying that politics and theology were the only two really great subjects."

"The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow."

"How agree the kettle and the earthen pot together?"

"The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army—his valour did not always serve his own cause."

"I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension."

"Much might be said on both sides."

"Ah, don't say that you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong."

"Ignorantia non est argumentum."

"She hath prosperous art When she will play with reason and discourse, And well she can persuade."

"For they are yet but ear-kissing arguments."

"There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things."

"And sheath'd their swords for lack of argument."

"The first the Retort Courteous; the second the Quip Modest; the third the Reply Churlish; the fourth the Reproof Valiant; the fifth the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh the Lie Direct."

"Arguments don't break chains."

"Like doctors thus, when much dispute has past, We find our tenets just the same at last."

"The very nature of deliberation and argumentation is opposed to necessity and self-evidence, since no one deliberates where the solution is necessary or argues argues against what is self-evident."

"Abba Paul the Barber and his brother Timothy lived in Scetis. They often used to argue. So Abba Paul said, 'How long shall we go on like this?' Abba Timothy said to him, 'I suggest you take my side of the argument and in my turn I will take your side when you oppose me.' They spent the rest of their days in this practice."

"It's hard to engage in good faith with a bad faith argument without just haemorrhaging energy."

"In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause."

"The brilliant chief, irregularly great, Frank, haughty, rash—the Rupert of debate."

"I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding."