Agreement Quotes

Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody’s fine feelings may be offended.

There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.

If love and agreement are manifest in a single family, that family will advance, become illumined and spiritual.

Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.

Our characterization of collective folly is that sound judgment is not feasible when there is forced or false agreement in groups.

Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

Basically, Herman van Rompuy wants the European Union to become a debt union, which may be acceptable to some of the southern countries who are effectively bust. To the northern countries, it is not.

We admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure.

By the same right under which France took Flanders, Lorraine and Alsace, and will sooner or later take Belgium — by that same right Germany takes over Schleswig; it is the right of civilisation as against barbarism, of progress as against stability.

There is nothing more agreeable than having a place where one can throw on the floor as many cigar butts as one pleases without the subconscious fear of a maid who is waiting like a sentinel to place an ashtray where the ashes are going to fall.