Everybody I've ever worked with - 99. 9 percent of the time, I've had a successful or very agreeable experience with.
A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted is a more agreeable favor.
Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap.
It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.
Do not give to thy friends the most agreeable counsels, but the most advantageous.
That profound night freedom was agreeable and exciting.
Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.
An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can't face reality nor deal with it nor handle it nor conquer it: he can only sneer at them that do, and be 'agreeable to strangers', like a good-for-nothing woman on the streets.
Every advance in social progress removes us more and more from the guidance of instinct, obliging us to depend upon reason for the assurance that our habits are really agreeable to the laws of health.
Learning how to be agreeable is the key to learning self-control.
Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.
I do not myself find it agreeable to be 90, and I cannot imagine why it should seem so to other people. It is not that you have any fears about your own death, it is that your upholstery is already dead around you.
Do not entertain doubts if they are not agreeable to you.
Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.
Wine is one of the agreeable and essential ingredients of life
That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.
It is not enough that poetry is agreeable, it should also be interesting.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Our idea of what constitutes social good has advanced with the procession of the ages, from those desperate times when just to keep body and soul together was an achievement, to the great present when "good" includes an agreeable, stable civilization accessible to all, the opportunity of each to develop his particular genius and the privilege of mutual usefulness.
A willing, cheerful worker, with his heart in his job, will turn out more work and more satisfactory work in 44 hours than an unwilling worker, dissatisfied with his conditions, will turn out in 54 hours. It is good business, therefore, for every employer to go as far as he possibly can in reaching a schedule agreeable to his people.