Quotes about Agreeable

Agreeable advice is seldom useful advice. Votes: 3

Agreeable surprises are the perquisites of youth. Votes: 3

Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence. Votes: 3

Agreeable as it is to know where one is proceeding, it is far more important to know where one has arrived. Votes: 3

Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason. Votes: 1

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. Votes: 1

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. Votes: 1

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive. Votes: 1

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms. Votes: 1

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. Votes: 1

Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day. Votes: 1

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. Votes: 1

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. Votes: 1

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. Votes: 1

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself. Votes: 1

There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. Votes: 1

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route. Votes: 1

It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with. Votes: 1

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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? Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Animals are such agreeable friends. Votes: 0

Custom determines what is agreeable. Votes: 0

What is more agreeable than one's home? Votes: 0

That profound night freedom was agreeable and exciting. Votes: 0

Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness. Votes: 0

Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men. Votes: 0

That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing. Votes: 0

I'm in an agreeable state: busy, enthusiastic, curious. Votes: 0

To make advice agreeable, try paradox or rhyme. Votes: 0

I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable. Votes: 0

pity is an agreeable sentiment, uplifting like military music. Votes: 0

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Votes: 0

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable. Votes: 0

The gallantry of the mind consists in agreeable flattery. Votes: 0

Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion. Votes: 0

Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest. Votes: 0

But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders. Votes: 0

To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself. Votes: 0

Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable. Votes: 0

All the world is good and agreeable in your eyes. Votes: 0

This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur. Votes: 0

Do not entertain doubts if they are not agreeable to you. Votes: 0

Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear. Votes: 0

Learning how to be agreeable is the key to learning self-control. Votes: 0

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen. Votes: 0

In the United States, there was no simpler, more agreeable time. Votes: 0

Wine is one of the agreeable and essential ingredients of life Votes: 0

You're supposed to get tired planting bulbs. But it's an agreeable tiredness. Votes: 0

Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable. Votes: 0

My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings. Votes: 0

My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings. Votes: 0

An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. Votes: 0

Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner. Votes: 0

The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable. Votes: 0

What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always agreeable or attractive. Votes: 0

Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable. Votes: 0

Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one. Votes: 0

I roll out of my couch every morning with the more agreeable expectations. Votes: 0

It is not enough that poetry is agreeable, it should also be interesting. Votes: 0

The light music of whiskey falling into a glass - an agreeable interlude. Votes: 0

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism. Votes: 0

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be. Votes: 0

Thoughtful people of different political philosophies can disagree, but in a very agreeable manner. Votes: 0

Do not give to thy friends the most agreeable counsels, but the most advantageous. Votes: 0

An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones. Votes: 0

To engage in experiments on heat was always one of my most agreeable employments. Votes: 0

In finance everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable. Votes: 0

It almost always happens that true, but exaggerated, coloring is more agreeable than absolute coloring. Votes: 0

as everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility. Votes: 0

That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood. Votes: 0

You ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful. Votes: 0

Every society requires mutual accommodation and mutually agreeable temper; hence the larger it is, the duller. Votes: 0

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions. Votes: 0

That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family. Votes: 0

There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to. Votes: 0

I always follow the rules. No fake co-productions. I know how to make content agreeable and acceptable. Votes: 0

... indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable. Votes: 0

Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable. Votes: 0

A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted is a more agreeable favor. Votes: 0

To be agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know. Votes: 0

He has carried every point, who has combined that which is useful with that which is agreeable. Votes: 0

One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader. Votes: 0

Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting. Votes: 0

What is common sense? That which attracts the least opposition that which brings most agreeable and worthy results. Votes: 0

It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable. Votes: 0

Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests. Votes: 0

Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to. Votes: 0

I cannot think of any work that could be more agreeable and fun than making books for children. Votes: 0

Miserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve. Votes: 0

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting. Votes: 0

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting. Votes: 0

Everybody I've ever worked with - 99.9 percent of the time, I've had a successful or very agreeable experience with. Votes: 0

Although his personality is generally quite agreeable, Mr Murdoch has no loyalty to anyone or anything except his company. Votes: 0

Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap. Votes: 0

I would have no need for the Memory Of Things past if those which were Present were more agreeable Votes: 0

If you would make yourself agreeable wherever you go, listen to the grievances of others but never relate your own. Votes: 0

Like gluttony or drunkenness, hatred seems an agreeable vice when you practice it yourself, but disgusting when observed in others. Votes: 0

The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil! Votes: 0

I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving. Votes: 0

I was not a beater of children and as a consequence I've always been, I think, very agreeable and co-operative. Votes: 0

To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake. Votes: 0

Once you get older, people stop listening to what you say. It's very agreeable once you get used to it. Votes: 0

He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person. Votes: 0

I have never yet met anyone who did not think it was an agreeable sensation to cut tinfoil with scissors. Votes: 0

The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded ear. Votes: 0

If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know. Votes: 0

Most often, walking alone with my shadow is how I find my answer, the result of gathering together all agreeable parties. Votes: 0

A sadder but wiser man is a thousand times more agreeable to meet than the feller that never makes a mistake. Votes: 0

Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody's fine feelings may be offended. Votes: 0

In the zazen posture, your mind and body have, great power to accept things as they are, whether agreeable or disagreeable. Votes: 0

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. Votes: 0

That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business. Votes: 0

Murderers have usually killed the one person in the world that was bugging them and they're usually quite peaceful and agreeable. Votes: 0

Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands. Votes: 0

Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable. Votes: 0

The meditative mind sees disagreeable or agreeable things with equanimity, patience, and good-will. Transcendent knowledge is seeing reality in utter simplicity. (146) Votes: 0

Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable. Votes: 0

Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate. Votes: 0

Business is a means- the only means- to increase the quantity of goods available for preserving life and rendering it more agreeable. Votes: 0

The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. Votes: 0

The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself. Votes: 0

Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true. Votes: 0

Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. Votes: 0

A true disciple inquires not whether a fact is agreeable to his own reason.His pride has yielded to the divine testimony. Votes: 0

I like to make people happy, and with fairy tales, I can say anything I want to, but in an agreeable way. Votes: 0

When a man meets a woman who seems too perfect, too sweet, or too agreeable, he tends to become bored very quickly. Votes: 0

Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit. Votes: 0

You cannot ensure the gratitude of others for a favour conferred upon them in the way which is most agreeable to yourself. Votes: 0

With the exception of women, there is nothing on earth so agreeable or necessary to the comfort of man as the dog. Votes: 0

The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are. Votes: 0

A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others. Votes: 0

Science which is acquired unwillingly, soon disappears; that which is instilled into the mind in a pleasant and agreeable manner, is more lasting. Votes: 0

Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure. Votes: 0

Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it. Votes: 0

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. Votes: 0

No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances. Votes: 0

No conclusions can be more agreeable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limits of human reason and capacity. Votes: 0

China tea, the scent of hyacinths, wood fires and bowls of violets – that is my mental picture of an agreeable February afternoon. Votes: 0

Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name. Votes: 0

The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life. Votes: 0

If good people would make their goodness agreeable, and smile instead of frowning in their virtue, how many would they win to the good cause. Votes: 0

In England it was enough that Newton was the greatest mathematican of his century; in France he would have been expected to be agreeable too. Votes: 0

There are lots of things worth doing that are no way to make a living. They are agreeable ways to make a more agreeable life. Votes: 0

Dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong. So instead of speaking to highly agreeable audiences, target suggestions to people with a history of originality. Votes: 0

No great dependence is to be placed on the eagerness of young soldiers for action...fighting is agreeable to those who are strangers to it. Votes: 0

But methings wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it Votes: 0

I have observed over the years that the unanticipated consequences of social action are always more important, and usually less agreeable, than the intended consequences. Votes: 0

Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly irksome to me. Votes: 0

It is a dead heart. It is inside of me. It is a stranger yet once it was agreeable, opening and closing like a clam. Votes: 0

The natives are superficially agreeable, but they go in for cannibalism, headhunting, infanticide, incest, avoidance and joking relationships, and biting lice in half with their teeth Votes: 0

Those who would extirpate evil from the world know little of human nature. As well might punch be palatable without souring as existence agreeable without care. Votes: 0

Husbands, be patient with your wives; and wives, be patient with your husbands. Don't expect perfection. Find agreeable ways to work out the differences that arise. Votes: 0

Over the very long term, history shows that the chances of any business surviving in a manner agreeable to a company's owners are slim at best. Votes: 0

To accpet the world as boring or accpet oneself as boring? Which is really more agreeable? There's bound to be some amount of ambiguity and uncertainty. Votes: 0

Jealousy is a painful passion; yet without some share of it, the agreeable affection of love has difficulty to subsist in its full force and violence. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire. Votes: 0

Perhaps," said the man, "you would like to be lost with us. I have found it much more agreeable to be lost in the company of others. Votes: 0

Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease and agreeable relaxation. Votes: 0

Talents give a man a superiority far more agreeable than that which proceeds from riches, birth, or employments, which are all external. Talents constitute our very essence. Votes: 0

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We are always more disposed to laugh at nonsense than at genuine wit; because the nonsense is more agreeable to us, being more comfortable to our natures. Votes: 0

Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.) Votes: 0

I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong. Votes: 0

A country gentleman should bring his lady to visit London as soon as he can, that they may have agreeable topicks for conversation when they are by themselves. Votes: 0

Seek those who find your road agreeable, your personality and mind stimulating, your philosophy acceptable, and your experience helpful. Let those who do not, seek their own kind. Votes: 0

Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account. Votes: 0

Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it! Votes: 0

Have you never seen a strange unconnected deformed representation of a figure, which seen in another point of view, became proportioned and agreeable? It is the picture of man. Votes: 0

It is easier to give directions than advice, and more agreeable to have the right to act, even in a limited sphere, than the privilege to talk at large. Votes: 0

I've been drawing all my life, just as a hobby, without really having shows or anything. It's just an agreeable thing to do, and I recommend it to everybody. Votes: 0

Expect a most agreeable letter; for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say) I shall have no check to my Genius from beginning to end. Votes: 0

A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record of the productions of such minds. Votes: 0

When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason. Votes: 0

Flattery is never so agreeable as to our blind side; commend a fool for his wit, or a knave for his honesty, and they will receive you into their bosoms Votes: 0

There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable delusion"--I forget where. Votes: 0

Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword. Votes: 0

We find from experience that yellow excites a warm and agreeable impression.... The eye is gladdened, the heart expanded and cheered, a glow seems at once to breathe toward us. Votes: 0

Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with. Votes: 0

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 not look as if it did. Votes: 0

And not only my own brothers and sisters agreed so but my brothers and sisters in law; and their children, although but young, had the like agreeable natures and affectionate dispositions. Votes: 0

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news. Votes: 0

Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable. Votes: 0

Alas! Our dancing days are no more. We wish, however, all those who have a relish for so agreeable and innocent an amusement all the pleasure the season will afford them. Votes: 0

Few things are more agreeable than the spectacle of a man who loses his temper; we should be grateful to such people for providing us with moments of often unsullied delight. Votes: 0

Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil. Votes: 0

The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business. Votes: 0

A woman with a hazel eye never elopes from her husband, never chats scandal, never finds fault, never talks too much nor too little--always is an entertaining, intellectual, agreeable and lovely creature. Votes: 0

When we are honest, we admit how agreeable it can feel to be singled out for favored treatment. The biggest barrier to equality for all is that inequality for some feels good. Votes: 0

It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent. Votes: 0

We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more reasonableto do so when his proposition is agreeable to us. Votes: 0

It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own. Votes: 0

The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. Votes: 0

Work is a dull thing; you cannot get away from that. The only agreeable existence is one of idleness, and that is not, unfortunately, always compatible with continuing to exist at all. Votes: 0

Since history is not an objective reality, but only an imaginative reconstruction of vanished events, the pattern that appears useful and agreeable to one generation is never entirely so to the next. Votes: 0

We judge so superficially of things, that common words and actions spoke and done in an agreeable manner, with some knowledge of what passes in the world, often succeed beyond the greatest ability. Votes: 0

[Franklin Delano] Roosevelt was the central world figure in the two great disasters of this century - the Great Depression and World War II. By contrast, JFK came in relatively peaceful, agreeable times. Votes: 0

An agreeable figure and winning manner, which inspire affection without love, are always new. Beauty loses its relish, the graces never, after the longest acquaintance, they are no less agreeable than at first. Votes: 0

Table talk, to be perfect, should be sincere without bigotry, differing without discord, sometimes grave, always agreeable, touching on deep points, dwelling most on seasonable ones, and letting everybody speak and be heard. Votes: 0

Muse, time has taught me that all metaphysical systems, even historical facts given as truths, are hardly that, so I amuse myself with more agreeable lies; I no longer read anything but novels. Votes: 0

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 this, Mahamati, it is not to be eaten. Votes: 0

Happiness can't be reduced to a few agreeable sensations. Rather, it is a way of being and of experiencing the world"”a profound fulfillment that suffuses every moment and endures despite inevitable setbacks. Votes: 0

Roaming through the jungle of "Ohs" and "Ahs" searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats. Votes: 0

Value all books in proportion as they are agreeable to Scripture. Those that are nearest to it are the best, and those that are farthest from it, and most contrary to it, the worst. Votes: 0

Resentment is, in every stage of the passion, painful, but it is not disagreeable, unless in excess; pity is always painful, yet always agreeable; vanity, on the contrary, is always pleasant, yet always disagreeable. Votes: 0

Complete equality isn't compatible with democracy, but it is a agreeable to tolitarianism. After all the only way to ensure the equality of the slothful, the inept and the immoral is to suppress everyone else. Votes: 0

Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to my personal aesthetic might seem real. But it is true. Votes: 0

The American spring is by no means so agreeable as the American autumn; both move with faltering step, and slow; but this lingering pace, which is delicious in autumn, is most tormenting in the spring. Votes: 0

Every advance in social progress removes us more and more from the guidance of instinct, obliging us to depend upon reason for the assurance that our habits are really agreeable to the laws of health. Votes: 0

Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort. Votes: 0

Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to my personal aesthetic might seem real. But it is true." Votes: 0

You have sensible women here [in England] but then, they are very devils--censorious, uncharitable, sarcastic--the women in Scotland have twice--thrice their freedom, with all their virtue--and are very conversable and agreeable--their educations are more finished. Votes: 0