#agreeable

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

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

#enemies #friendship #friendship

Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities. ↗

— Criss Jami

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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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

Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#guest #nobody #uninvited

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

— Walter Bagehot

#greatest #mistake #more #than #trying

Thoughtful people of different political philosophies can disagree, but in a very agreeable manner. ↗

— Bob Ehrlich

#different #disagree #manner #people #philosophies

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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