It is all a question of weeding out what you yourself like best to do, so that you can live most agreeably… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be; but he must give himself out to be… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do. — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
Whenever anything disagreeable is happening in the country, Vera Cruz is sure to get its full share. — Edward Burnett Tylor Copy Share Image
The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
Rain is disagreeable, but snow is as much part of the mountain as are sunshine and clear skies. — Gaston Rebuffat Copy Share Image
It seems to be that way with most things. No one to do the really disagreeable jobs except oneself. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Do not think that your Learning and Genius, your Wit or Sprightliness, are welcome everywhere. I was once told that my Company… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
There are many people who are so inclined to say "no" that the "no" always precedes whatever we say to them. This… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non æquus animus solatium inveniat. There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Never since the dawn of human history, as far as I can find out, did people long settled in any region give… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological.… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
We need the disruption of categories that lead us to abandon the difficult, the disagreeable, and the least likely to go very… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
This boy thinks I am not of his species, that I am some other kind of creature, one that can be crushed… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate. — John Keats Copy Share Image
Humor can help you to disagree without being disagreeable. The key in democracy is not necessarily that we agree, but that we… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
Politics: where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage. — Jimmy Breslin Copy Share Image
The disagreeable reality for those who believe in human rights is that there are some occasions-and Iraq may be one of them-when… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The white race is absolutely disagreeable to get along with in peace. No other people on the face of the earth have… — Khalid Abdul Muhammad Copy Share Image
The English language may hold a more disagreeable combination of words than "The doctor will see you now." I am willing to… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
