(27 quotes found)
“Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way - how many pleasing things are done for you.”
Claude M. Bristol
“No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances”
Mark Twain
“There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen”
Francesco Petrarch
“Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty”
Joseph Addison
“Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
“To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself”
Joseph Joubert
“The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be”
Walter Bagehot
“My idea of an agreeable person, is a person who agrees with me”
Benjamin Disraeli
“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.”
Xenophon
“Nearly everyone was agreeable and cooperative.”
Tom Briggs