AGREEMENT

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

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

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

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.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent.
Spanish Proverbs

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

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

There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
E(lwyn) B(rooks) White

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.
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

Even savage animals can agree among themselves.
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal

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

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

Man, an animal that makes bargains.
Adam Smith

Three may keep counsel, if two are away.
John Heywood

One good analogy is worth three hours discussion.
James T. Mccay

Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace.
John Milton

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

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

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

What usually comes first is the contract.
Ira Gershwin

Better a lean agreement than a fat lawsuit.
Proverbs

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.
Neville Chamberlain