A Quote by Mason Cooley

Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear.

Mason Cooley

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Mason Cooley
American - Writer
1927 - 2002

It is easier to give directions than advice, and more agreeable to have the right to act, even in a limited sphere, than the privilege to talk at large.

Winston Churchill

There's a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.

Jordan Peterson

Agreeable advice is seldom useful advice.

Jean Baptiste Massillon

Yeah 'ear 'ear," said George, with half a glance at Fred, the corner of whose mouth twitched.

J. K. Rowling

After all, what is a kiss? A vow made at closer range, a more precise promise, a confession that contains its own proof, a seal placed on a pact that has already been signed; it's a secret told to the mouth rather than to the ear.

Edmond Rostand

No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to reacquaint yourself with concentration. We all do.

Samantha Power

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.

Joseph Addison

To make advice agreeable, try paradox or rhyme.

Mason Cooley

My mom saved my life. She gave me mouth-to-mouth more than once.

Corey Haim

I don't think that I'm the smartest guy around, so I'm better off to keep my mouth shut as much as I can rather than opening my mouth and proving to people that I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm more of a leader by example than I am a preacher.

Mark Martin

There are lots of things worth doing that are no way to make a living. They are agreeable ways to make a more agreeable life.

Kurt Vonnegut

What is more agreeable than one's home?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

An agreeable figure and winning manner, which inspire affection without love, are always new. Beauty loses its relish, the graces never, after the longest acquaintance, they are no less agreeable than at first.

Henry Home, Lord Kames

The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable.

Stella Adler

Um, Faythe?” Marc reached for my arm, and a small grin turned up one corner of his beautiful mouth. “As my first official piece of advice to the new Alpha, let me suggest that you put on some pants. And maybe a shirt.” His grin grew and pulled me closer to whisper in my ear, while Jace watched us stiffly from across the room. “While the look definitely works for me, I’m thinking the other Alphas might take you more seriously if you dress the part.

Rachel Vincent

Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind, the aggregate nature of man more continuously, and more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.

Walter Bagehot

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