Agreeable Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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