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Agreeable advice is seldom useful advice. -- Jean Baptiste Massillon
Agreeable surprises are the perquisites of youth. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence. -- Thomas Jefferson
Agreeable as it is to know where one is proceeding, it is far more important to know where one has arrived. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding. -- Sarah Fielding
Please, trust me, I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me. -- Markus Zusak
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason. -- Immanuel Kant
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. -- Ambrose Bierce
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. -- Benjamin Disraeli
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive. -- Winston Churchill
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms. -- George Eliot
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. -- Francis Bacon
Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. -- Johann Sebastian Bach
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. -- Winston Churchill
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. -- Thomas Aquinas
A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself. -- James Boswell
There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. -- Henry James
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with. -- Henry Van Dyke
Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm. -- Blaise Pascal
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. -- Winston Churchill
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. -- Aldous Huxley
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. -- Joseph Addison
Through devotion, your family cares become more peaceful, mutual love between husband and wife becomes more sincere, the service we owe to the prince more faithful, and our work, no matter what it is, becomes more pleasant and agreeable. -- Saint Francis de Sales
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. -- Marquis de Sade
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. -- Vitruvius
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. -- Xenophon
An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done. -- Jane Austen
Surrounded by all the members of my dear family, enjoying the affection of numerous friends, who have never abandoned me, and possessing a sufficient share of all that contributes to make life agreeable, I lift my grateful eyes towards the Supreme Being and feel that I am happy. -- John James Audubon
Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness? -- C. S. Lewis
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. -- Bill Maher
Animals are such agreeable friends. -- George Eliot
Custom determines what is agreeable. -- Blaise Pascal
What is more agreeable than one's home? -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
That profound night freedom was agreeable and exciting. -- Carmen Laforet
Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness. -- Samuel Johnson
Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing. -- Pliny the Younger
I'm in an agreeable state: busy, enthusiastic, curious. -- Isabelle Adjani
To make advice agreeable, try paradox or rhyme. -- Mason Cooley
I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable. -- Elia Kazan
pity is an agreeable sentiment, uplifting like military music. -- Francoise Sagan
Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. -- Fernando Pessoa
To always be loved one must ever be agreeable. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
The gallantry of the mind consists in agreeable flattery. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion. -- Saint Francis de Sales
Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest. -- Kin Hubbard
But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders. -- Abraham Cowley
To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself. -- Joseph Joubert
Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable. -- Tacitus
All the world is good and agreeable in your eyes. -- Jane Austen
This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur. -- James Russell Lowell
Do not entertain doubts if they are not agreeable to you. -- Henry David Thoreau
Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear. -- Mason Cooley
Learning how to be agreeable is the key to learning self-control. -- Frederick Lenz
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen. -- Petrarch
In the United States, there was no simpler, more agreeable time. -- Sarah Vowell
Wine is one of the agreeable and essential ingredients of life -- Julia Child
You're supposed to get tired planting bulbs. But it's an agreeable tiredness. -- Gail Godwin
Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable. -- Joseph Addison
My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings. -- Mary Shelley
My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings. -- Mary Shelley
An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. -- Publilius Syrus
Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable. -- Stella Adler
What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always agreeable or attractive. -- Jonathan Franzen
Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable. -- George Washington
Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one. -- Voltaire
I roll out of my couch every morning with the more agreeable expectations. -- H. L. Mencken
It is not enough that poetry is agreeable, it should also be interesting. -- Horace
The light music of whiskey falling into a glass - an agreeable interlude. -- James Joyce
Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism. -- Arnold Bennett
The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be. -- Walter Bagehot
Thoughtful people of different political philosophies can disagree, but in a very agreeable manner. -- Bob Ehrlich
Do not give to thy friends the most agreeable counsels, but the most advantageous. -- Henry Theodore Tuckerman
An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones. -- Jane Austen
To engage in experiments on heat was always one of my most agreeable employments. -- Benjamin Thompson
In finance everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable. -- Winston Churchill
It almost always happens that true, but exaggerated, coloring is more agreeable than absolute coloring. -- Michel Eugene Chevreul
as everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility. -- Margaret Deland
That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood. -- Alexander Pope
You ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful. -- Epictetus
Every society requires mutual accommodation and mutually agreeable temper; hence the larger it is, the duller. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions. -- David Hume
That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family. -- Plautus
There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to. -- Jane Austen
I always follow the rules. No fake co-productions. I know how to make content agreeable and acceptable. -- Bruno Zheng Wu
... indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable. -- George Eliot
Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable. -- Jonathan Swift
A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted is a more agreeable favor. -- Decimius Magnus Ausonius
To be agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know. -- Talleyrand
He has carried every point, who has combined that which is useful with that which is agreeable. -- Horace
One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader. -- Horace
Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
What is common sense? That which attracts the least opposition that which brings most agreeable and worthy results. -- E. W. Howe
It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable. -- Kenneth Grahame
Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to. -- Thomas Carlyle
I cannot think of any work that could be more agreeable and fun than making books for children. -- Arnold Lobel
Miserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting. -- A. J. P. Taylor
There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting. -- A. J. P. Taylor
Everybody I've ever worked with - 99.9 percent of the time, I've had a successful or very agreeable experience with. -- Alec Baldwin
Although his personality is generally quite agreeable, Mr Murdoch has no loyalty to anyone or anything except his company. -- Conrad Black
Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap. -- Derek Raymond
I would have no need for the Memory Of Things past if those which were Present were more agreeable -- Peter Ackroyd
If you would make yourself agreeable wherever you go, listen to the grievances of others but never relate your own. -- Josh Billings
Like gluttony or drunkenness, hatred seems an agreeable vice when you practice it yourself, but disgusting when observed in others. -- William Henry Irwin
The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil! -- Francois Rabelais
I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving. -- George Washington
I was not a beater of children and as a consequence I've always been, I think, very agreeable and co-operative. -- Edmund Hillary
To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake. -- Lord Chesterfield
Once you get older, people stop listening to what you say. It's very agreeable once you get used to it. -- A. S. Byatt
He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person. -- Jane Austen
I have never yet met anyone who did not think it was an agreeable sensation to cut tinfoil with scissors. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded ear. -- Charles Baudelaire
If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Most often, walking alone with my shadow is how I find my answer, the result of gathering together all agreeable parties. -- Robert Breault
A sadder but wiser man is a thousand times more agreeable to meet than the feller that never makes a mistake. -- Kin Hubbard

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