When women are encouraged to be competitive too many of them become disagreeable.

Telephone n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

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

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

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.

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

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.

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

Of all noises I think music is the least disagreeable.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Reading is not a duty and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with or find disagreeable so it's important to stress that balance.

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business family relations or life itself.