... [I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves the bother… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
The scenes and events of long ago, and the persons who took part in them, wear a charming aspect to the eye… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
I want to show the richness of even the most disagreeable bits of life. — Alfonso A. Ossorio Copy Share Image
I'm very aware that people find my wife and I's marriage disagreeable. But all I have to do is look at my… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer's judgment. — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
We may disagree on some things, but we can do so without being disagreeable. — Christine Gregoire Copy Share Image
Cold winds are disagreeable, hot winds enervating, moist winds unhealthy. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: "One can disagree without being disagreeable." — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Why getting angry? Getting angry doesn’t solve anything… I don’t like yelling and fighting and I can’t quarrel, I prefer to let… — Grace Kelly Copy Share Image
Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent. — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
One should be wary of talking on end about such subjects as learning, morality or folklore in front of elders or people… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Truthfully speaking, women are dangerous, even those who aren't feminists, because there has always been a women's revolt. Only it has usually… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold Sheets extreamly disagreeable. — George Mason Copy Share Image
Because since the beginningless past we are running after objects, not knowing where our Self is, we lose track of the Original… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him, "A contest between us is very unequal, for… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He who, when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done is both bolder and milder than… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it… — Bernard Meltzer Copy Share Image
The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image