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Quotes about Agreement
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“Too much agreement kills the chat.”
“Man, an animal that makes bargains.”
“Three may keep counsel, if two are away.”
“What usually comes first is the contract.”
“Even savage animals can agree among themselves.”
“One good analogy is worth three hours discussion.”
“An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.”
“Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent.”
“I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.”
“A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.”
“He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.”
“My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.”
“One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.”
“On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.”
“Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.”
“You may easily play a joke on a man who likes to argue -- agree with him.”
“I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.”
“No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.”
“We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.”
“You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.”
“There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.”
“You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.”
“The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.”
“It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.”
“Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace.”
“My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.”
“If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.”
“There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.”
“Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.”
“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.”