Agreement

(462 votes)   No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.

Winston Churchill
1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(321 votes)   My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Benjamin Disraeli
1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(292 votes)   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
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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

Johann Kaspar Lavater
1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic

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(249 votes)   On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

H. L. Mencken
1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist

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(242 votes)   Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent.

Spanish Proverbs
Sayings of Spanish Origin

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

E(lwyn) B(rooks) White
1899-1985, American Author, Editor

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

Malcolm Muggeridge
1903-1990, British Broadcaster

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(203 votes)   Even savage animals can agree among themselves.

(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
c.55-c.130, Roman Satirical Poet

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(199 votes)   Man, an animal that makes bargains.

Adam Smith
1723-1790, Scottish Economist

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

Louie Morris

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(198 votes)   One good analogy is worth three hours discussion.

James T. Mccay

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(195 votes)   Three may keep counsel, if two are away.

John Heywood
1497?-1580?, British Dramatist, Proverb Collection

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(186 votes)   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.
1917-, American Historian

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