#pleasantly

We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man. ↗

— Amy Vanderbilt

#convenience #fellow #fellow man #learn #live

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. ↗

— George Will

#being #constantly #either #nice #part

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#involvement #limiting #lives #minimum #other

I'm easy driving, But I'm not a person who loves living pleasantly above all else. I'm not that way at all. I might think I'm that, but I'm not really that. ↗

— Ray Davies

#driving #easy #else #i #living

The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#bad #good #good manners #manners #ones

Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#irritating #nothing #pleasantly #while #who

Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#hearer #journey #laugh #misfortunes #nothing

I was pleasantly surprised after the book came out. It was like, hey, the home team put down a nice score. ↗

— Rocco DiSpirito

#book #came #down #hey #home

While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration. ↗

— Barney Frank

#april #both #bush #bush administration #created

Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#correct #enable #get #good #learn