Adam Smith

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

Scottish Economist

Samuel Richardson

Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.

English Novelist

Reinhold Niebuhr

Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.

American Theologian

T. E. Lawrence

Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.

British Soldier

Charles de Gaulle

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.

French Leader

Patrick O'Brian

You can't be happy if you're not tolerably happy with yourself. The addition of friends adds immeasurably to life.

Sebastian Faulks

There's no such thing as identity: it's something we have to believe in to make life more tolerable.

British Novelist

Anais Nin

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

American Author

Plato

The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.

Greek Philosopher

George Bernard Shaw

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

Irish Playwright

Often implies something is less than ideal, but still acceptable.

Slight Disapproval

Used when something has improved enough to be acceptable.

Gradual Improvement

Useful when comparing situations or things to highlight its adequacy.

Comparative Context

Indicates that someone's company can be endured for a time.

Endurable Presence

Implies someone's behavior is not preferred, yet can be lived with.

Subtle Irritation

Expresses lukewarm approval, nothing enthusiastic.

Mild Endorsement

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The case to infect...

 and denies that worker the right to organize. Mind you, none of what I am describing about this agricultural sector or the guest worker program is actually human trafficking. It is merely what we find legally tolerable.

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From Ashes to Ink PIPE...

 places that at least aspired to protect disagreement as well as diversity, and what made that possible was the virtue of civility. What made disagreement tolerable, what it made it possible for us to share a life,

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United Nations Messenger...

 on a sign that read, "He who adapts can live tolerably." It was a bargain that helped ensure I had a place to stay and food to eat;

Tolerable