Convenient
Fit or adapted; suitable; proper; becoming; appropriate.
Affording accommodation or advantage; well adapted to use; handly; as, a convenient house; convenient implements or tools.
Seasonable; timely; opportune; as, a convenient occasion; a convenient season.
Near at hand; easy of access.
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Convenient Quotations
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
Bob Dylan
The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.
Evelyn Waugh
Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
Ambrose Bierce
Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
Benjamin Disraeli
It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
Ovid
I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.
Thom Yorke
E-mail is far more convenient than the telephone, as far as I'm concerned. I would throw my phone away if I could get away with it.
Tom Hanks
It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel.
Yasser Arafat
One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
Robert M. Pirsig
It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.
Samuel Alexander
Convenient Translations
convenient in Dutch is doelmatig, gemakkelijk, geschikt
convenient in French is opportun
convenient in German is bequem, komfortabel, geeignete
convenient in Italian is vantaggioso, utilitario
convenient in Latin is opportunus
convenient in Norwegian is bekvemt, passende
convenient in Portuguese is conveniente
convenient in Spanish is practico, provechoso
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