Agreement Quotes

Better a lean agreement than a fat lawsuit.

Proverb

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.

Samuel Goldwyn

Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent.

Proverb

Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

Jane Austen

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

Malcolm Muggeridge

Man, an animal that makes bargains.

Adam Smith

Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice) and follow the yellow brick road to the wonderful land of consensus. In place of honest argument among consenting adults the politicians substitute a lullaby for frightened children: the pretense that conflict doesn't really exist, that we have achieved the blessed state in which we no longer need politics.

Lewis H. Lapham

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

John Milton

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

Louie Morris

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

John Jay Chapman

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

Jean Rostand

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

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.

Agreeing to disagree is a way of giving up—an admission that neither one of us has the skills, courage, or tenacity to work it out!

Suzanne Mayo Frindt

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

Edward W. Howe

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.

Rudyard Kipling

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

Samuel Butler

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

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

Margaret Thatcher