Motivational Quotes

Agreement

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

Best Quotes about Agreement

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

Churchill, Winston

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

William Wrigley Jr.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent.

Proverb, Spanish

One good analogy is worth three hours discussion.

Mccay, James T.

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

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

Morris, Louie

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Cullen Hightower

10.

Better a lean agreement than a fat lawsuit.

Proverb

11.

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

Rostand, Jean

12.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

What usually comes first is the contract.

Gershwin, Ira

14.

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

Novalis

15.

Three may keep counsel, if two are away.

Heywood, John

16.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

17.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

Charles Baudelaire

18.

Too much agreement kills the chat.

Cleaver, Eldridge

19.

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.

20.

An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.

Phaedrus

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Man, an animal that makes bargains.

Smith, Adam

24.

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

Mencken, H. L.

25.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

26.

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

27.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

29.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

30.

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

Oscar Wilde

31.

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

32.

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

Mo Udall

33.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

34.

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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Even savage animals can agree among themselves.