Agreeable Quotes

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Love of glory, fear of shame, greed for fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate others - all… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
This root [the potato], no matter how much you prepare it, is tasteless and floury. It cannot pass for an agreeable food, but it supplies… — Denis Diderot
Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear. — Mason Cooley
To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly.… — Charles Dickens
I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride… — Edward Gibbon
It is only by practicing through a continual succession of agreeable and disagreeable situations that we acquire true strengths. To accept that pain is inherent… — Shunryu Suzuki
Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. wThis is the first step towards becoming either estimable… — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Quite agreeable, of course, was this state of things to those who thought it in their abundant riches the result of inevitable economic laws and… — Pope Pius XI
There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right… — William Hazlitt
It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the… — Jane Austen
To always be loved one must ever be agreeable. — Mary Wortley Montagu
I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling… — Lord Byron
With the exception of women, there is nothing on earth so agreeable or necessary to the comfort of man as the dog. — Edward Jesse
Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to. — Thomas Carlyle
Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind, the aggregate nature of man more continuously, and more deeply. But it does… — Walter Bagehot
I cannot think of any work that could be more agreeable and fun than making books for children. — Arnold Lobel
A willing, cheerful worker, with his heart in his job, will turn out more work and more satisfactory work in 44 hours than an unwilling… — B. C. Forbes
Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty… — Mark Twain
Meat is not agreeable to the wise: it has a nauseating odor, it causes a bad reputation, it is food for the carnivorous; I say… — Gautama Buddha
These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike… — Plato

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