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The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill

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Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary.
It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body.
It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
- Winston Churchill

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
- Winston Churchill

Agree Quotes and Sayings

I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another
and I know there are people in the world
that do not love their fellow human beings
and I HATE people like that.
- Tom Lehrer

History is the version of past events
that people have decided to agree upon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain

While you can and should keep your composure and happiness
regardless of circumstances - regardless of your friends,
family and co-workers - regardless of gossip, sarcasm, and negativity.
Nonetheless, life is much easier and more pleasant
when you spend as much time as possible
in the company of enthusiastic positive people -
not necessarily those who agree with you,
but those who respect your right to your point of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

One who is too insistent on his own views,
finds few to agree with him.
- Lao Tzu

I have a respect for manners as such,
they are a way of dealing with people
you don't agree with or like.
- Margaret Mead

People living their lives for you on TV;
They say they're better than you, and you agree.
- Jewel

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full.
Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem,
am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
- Henry David Thoreau

Do feuds ever end?
Only when both sides shake hands,
and agree that there is no winner, no loser,
only people who have wearied of fighting
and desire to live in peace.
For many years, Northern Ireland was locked
in a murderous and seemingly unending feud.
The key to ending the feud was a shared commitment
that peace was more important than vengeance.
That is always the choice to be made.
The organizers of an April 10, 2009
joint Protestant-Catholic commemoration
of the Northern Ireland dead,
comprised of members of the once-outlawed Sinn Fein
as well as their once-avowed enemies,
referred to, "the terrible, random nature
of death in war and civil conflict."
Some lessons have been learned, many more remain.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Agrees Quotes and Sayings

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha

If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.
- Mo Udall

Agreeing Quotes and Sayings

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
- Robert Frost

Agreed Quotes and Sayings

Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero

What is history but a fable agreed upon?
- Napoleon Bonaparte

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat,
for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator,
while the wolf denounces him for the same act
as the destroyer of liberty,
especially as the sheep was a black one.
Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed
upon a definition of the word liberty;
and precisely the same difference
prevails today among us human creatures
- Abraham Lincoln

Friendship Quotes and Sayings

Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

From wine what sudden friendship springs.
- John Gay

It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
- George Jean Nathan

Our relationships live in the space between us which is sacred.
- Martin Buber

It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich

A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard

The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson

We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer

Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie

Love is a friendship set to music.
- Joseph Campbell

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

None of us got where we are solely by
pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
- Thurgood Marshall

One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends
is that three out of four murders
are committed by people who know the victim.
- George Carlin

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb

Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle

My father and he had one of those English friendships
which begins by avoiding the intimacies
and eventually eliminates speech altogether.
- Jorge Luis Borges

I have lost my seven best friends,
which is to say that God has had mercy on me
seven times without realizing it.
He lent a friendship, took it from me, and sent me another.
- Jean Cocteau

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle

A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -
and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck

It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley

True friendship is never serene.
- Marquise de Sevigne

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes
when they're not so good,
and sympathizes with your problems
when they're not so bad.
- Arnold H. Glasgow

I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard

Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin

Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono

Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle

Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis

"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile,
one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison

The worst part of success is to try to find
someone who is happy for you.
- Bette Midler

No man is truly married until he understands
every word his wife is NOT saying.
- Anonymous

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler

A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache;
do be my enemy - for friendship's sake.
- William Blake

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon

Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau

It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire

Nothing is more cheerful than talking
about our friends' shortcomings.
- Mason Cooley

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran

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