#agreeable

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

#barley #beer #drank #drink #held

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. ↗

— Bill Maher

#blindly #bragging #cleaner #derelict #duty

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. ↗

— Bernard Meltzer

#being #business #disagree #disagreeable #discovered

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

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#dreams #fantastic #more #once #once more

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

— Francois Rabelais

#celestial #delicious #how #laughing #more

That profound night freedom was agreeable and exciting. ↗

— Carmen Laforet

#exciting #freedom #night #profound

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

— Winston Churchill

#defeat #difficult #less #more #problems

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#idea #me #person #who

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

#always #best #greatest #live #most

When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#directly #directly proportional #disagreeable #feel #himself