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

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.
David Hume

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
Johannes Sebastian Bach

My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Frank Moore Colby

Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.
Kin Hubbard

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
Immanuel Kant

One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me.
Hugh Laurie

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.
Alistair Cooke

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
Arnold Bennett

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.
Marcus V. Pollio

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.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

That profound night freedom was agreeable and exciting.
Carmen Laforet

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

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
Walter Bagehot

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Winston Churchill

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.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
Henry James

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
Petrarch