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«Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.»
«There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.»
Author: David Ogilvy
| Keywords:
advertising agencies, agencies, disagreeable, eggs, exception, golden, lay, The Agency
«Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.»
Author: Jimmy Breslin
| About:
Men,
Politics,
Presidency,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
act on, bald, disagreeable
«Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.»
«They who are afflicted with it, are seized while they are walking, (more especially if it be up hill, and soon after eating) with a painful and most disagreeable sensation in the breast, which seems as if it would extinguish life, if it were to increase or to continue; but the moment they stand still, all this uneasiness vanishes. . . . In all other respects, patients are, at the beginning of this disorder, perfectly well. . . . Males are most liable to this disease, especially such as have past their fiftieth year.»
Author: William Heberden
| Keywords:
afflicted, disagreeable, disorder, eating disorder, extinguish, fiftieth, liable, patients, respects, seized, sensation, stand still, uneasiness
«The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
| Keywords:
disagreeable, evaporate, evaporates, excellencies, Excellency, intensities, intensity
«MISS, n. The title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Missis (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. In the general abolition of social titles in this our country they miraculously escaped to plague us. If we must have them let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to Mh.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
abbreviate, abbreviated, disagreeable, distinctly, escaped, indicate, miraculously, missis, mister, Mrs, mush, the market, unmarried, unmarried man, unmarried woman, venture
«Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Inventions,
Technology
| Keywords:
abrogate, abrogates, advantages, disagreeable, disagreeable person, telephone
«Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition»
Author: French Proverb
| About:
Adversity,
Medicine,
Misfortune,
Morality
| Keywords:
act as, ameliorates, ameliorating, bitters, chasten, chastened, chastening, chastens, disagreeable, disposition, misfortunes, stomach
«My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Men and Women,
Relationships
| Keywords:
breakfast, breakfast time, disagreeable, I Tried, My Wife, three times
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