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Quotes including the word “agree”.

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Bach

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

Gandhi

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

William James

My experience is what I agree to attend to.

Maria Kallas

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

John Keats

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

Freddie Mercury

I always knew I was a star, and now the rest of the world seems to agree with me

Bismarck von Otto

When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

Octavio Paz

When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.

Pessoa

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

Petrarca

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

Solon

Men keep their agreements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them; and I shall so frame my laws that it will be evident to the Athenians that it will be for their interest to observe them.

John Steinbeck

You know how advice is - you only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyways.

Voltaire

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.