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Tag Name "Agreeable" (195)

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Prayer is the offering up of our desires to God in the name of Christ, for such things as are agreeable to his will. It is an offering of our desires. Desires are the soul and life of prayer words are but the body now as the body without the soul is dead, so are prayers unless they are animated with our desires.
Thomas Watson
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Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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What task could be more agreeable than to tell of the benefits conferred on us by our ancestors, so that you may get to know the achievements of those from whom you have received both the basis of your beliefs and the inspiration to conduct your life properly.
William of Malmesbury
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Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
Arnold Bennett
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Beauty is a dangerous property, tending to corrupt the mind of the wife, though it soon loses its influence over the husband. A figure agreeable and engaging, which inspires affection, without the ebriety of love, is a much safer choice.
Henry Home, Lord Kames
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I was introduced to Mr. Davy, who has rooms adjoining mine (in the Royal Institution) he is a very agreeable and intelligent young man, and we have interesting conversation in an evening the principal failing in his character as a philosopher is that he does not smoke.
John Dalton
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It is only by practicing through a continual succession of agreeable and disagreeable situations that we acquire true strengths. To accept that pain is inherent and to live our lives from this understanding is to create the causes and conditions for happiness.
Shunryu Suzuki
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That profound night freedom was agreeable and exciting.
Carmen Laforet
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A man who has tasted with profound enjoyment the pleasure of agreeable society will eat with a greater appetite than he who rode horseback for two hours. An amusing lecture is as useful for health as the exercise of the body.
Immanuel Kant
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Do not entertain doubts if they are not agreeable to you.
Henry David Thoreau
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The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable.
Stella Adler
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I always follow the rules. No fake co-productions. I know how to make content agreeable and acceptable.
Bruno Zheng Wu
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Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
Johann Sebastian Bach
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Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it!
Johann Most
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Muse, time has taught me that all metaphysical systems, even historical facts given as truths, are hardly that, so I amuse myself with more agreeable lies I no longer read anything but novels.
Mary Wortley Montagu
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Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.
George Eliot
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Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend Love and Constancy, a good Wife or Husband. Where we meet one Person with all these Accomplishments, we find an Hundred without any one of them.
Joseph Addison
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Francis Bacon
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Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.
Samuel Johnson
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
Immanuel Kant
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France, freed from that monster, Bonaparte, must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of all whose ties of family and fortune give a preference to some other one, and the first choice of all not under those ties.
Thomas Jefferson
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Agreeable surprises are the perquisites of youth.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men he searches where knowledge is to be found and though he may not himself excel in invention, his ingenuity may compose one of those agreeable books, the deliciæ of literature, that will out-last the fading meteors of his day.
Isaac D'Israeli
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
Henry James
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