#agreeable

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

— A. J. P. Taylor

#corrupting #establishment #life #make #more

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

#agreement #between #building #each #harmony

You can die trying to get along with a disagreeable man,” she said, and I put a star beside it when I wrote it down and then taped it to the rear-view mirror for the rest of the drive. She hadn’t said “abusive,” I noticed; she had said that just disagreeable could kill you. ↗

— Debby Bull

#killing #marriage #love

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#choose #habit #life #make #most

Whenever anything disagreeable is happening in the country, Vera Cruz is sure to get its full share. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

#country #cruz #disagreeable #full #get

I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to shirk any of the disagreeable results that should follow. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#crazy #disagreeable #duty #enact #felt

Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable. ↗

— J. Martin Kohe

#another #being #cannot #customs #different

You do not have to do everything disagreeable that you have a right to do. ↗

— Judith Martin

#everything #right #you

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. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#agreeable #almost #boredom #comes #excessive

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

— Walter Bagehot

#greatest #mistake #more #than #trying