When Bishop Berkeley said, "there was no matter," — Argument

"Ive heard old cunning stagers Say, fools for arguments use wagers."

"Or he might say: Whereas some recluses and brahmins, while living on the food offered by the faithful, engage in wrangling argumentation, (saying to one another): "You dont understand this doctrine and discipline. I am the one who understands this doctrine and discipline." — "How can you understand this doctrine and discipline?" — "Youre practising the wrong way. Im practising the right way." — "Im being consistent. Youre inconsistent." — "What should have been said first you said last, what should have been said last you said first." — "What you took so long to think out has been confuted." — "Your doctrine has been refuted. Youre defeated. Go, try to save your doctrine, or disentangle yourself now if you can" — the recluse Gotama abstains from such wrangling argumentation."

"A knock-down argument; tis but a word and a blow."

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

"Hed undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a mans no horse. Hed 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."

"His conduct still right with his argument wrong."