Motivational Quotes

Agreement

Three may keep counsel, if two are away.

- Heywood, John

Best Quotes about Agreement

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Benjamin Disraeli

Man, an animal that makes bargains.

Smith, Adam

An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.

Phaedrus

Your very silence shows you agree.

Euripides

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Better a lean agreement than a fat lawsuit.

Proverb

Three may keep counsel, if two are away.

Heywood, John

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

William Wrigley Jr.

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You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.

Chapman, John Jay

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What usually comes first is the contract.

Gershwin, Ira

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It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.

Rostand, Jean

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No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.

Churchill, Winston

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Even savage animals can agree among themselves.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Too much agreement kills the chat.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.

Morris, Louie

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If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.

Mo Udall

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One good analogy is worth three hours discussion.

Mccay, James T.

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If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

Mencken, H. L.

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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling.

Joseph Addison

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Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent.

Proverb, Spanish

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I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of the twentieth century. Perhaps in the end he will conclude that the multitude of errors committed in the name of Munich may exceed the original error of 1938.

Schlesinger Jr., Arthur M.

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Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.

Cullen Hightower

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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

Novalis

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We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analyzing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a program would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.

Chamberlain, Neville

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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

Thatcher, Margaret

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And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.

Kipling, Rudyard

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To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

Oscar Wilde

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You may easily play a joke on a man who likes to argue -- agree with him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.

Colby, Frank Moore

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We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.