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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.
Benjamin Disraeli
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
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