Agreeable Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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!

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

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.

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.

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

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

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

That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.

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

Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.

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

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

And not only my own brothers and sisters agreed so but my brothers and sisters in law; and their children, although but young, had the like agreeable natures and affectionate dispositions.

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

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

Thoughtful people of different political philosophies can disagree, but in a very agreeable manner.

Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.

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.

Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

I'm in an agreeable state: busy, enthusiastic, curious.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.