Agreement Quotes

A polite devil is more agreeable than a rude saint.

Lebanese Proverb

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

Dudley Field Malone

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

Winston Churchill

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

Edgar Watson Howe

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Napoléon Bonaparte

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

Pierre Charles Baudelaire

He that complies against his will Is of his own opinion still.

Samuel Butler

If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.

Mrs. Ernest Hemingway

Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent.

Spanish Proverb

Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

Galbraith

Set your expectations high; find men and women whose integrity and values you respect; get their agreement on a course of action; and give them your ultimate trust.

John Akers

Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man.

Ausonius

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

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

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Even savage animals can agree among themselves.

Decimus Junius Juvenalis Juvenal