Agreeable Quotes

Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

In this connection, faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of very pleasant and agreeable feelings.

Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

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

For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim.

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

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.

Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!

One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me.

My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

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

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.

It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.

I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

That profound night freedom was agreeable and exciting.

Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it!

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.