...for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.

“In this world, you must be oh so smart, or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.”

— Anonymous

You must be oh-so smart, or oh-so pleasant. For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant...and you may quote me.

— James Stewart

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does make the future pleasant.

— Anonymous

It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the same way…

— Ramakrishna

It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Fun-run" indeed,what a misnomer. That'd be like saying "calm gremlin" or "pleasant hag." Or 'entertaining history textbook.

— Kiersten White

A children's author on a soapbox is not a pleasant sight but I have become drawn into issues, slightly unwillingly, relating to young people,…

— Anthony Horowitz

Azerbaijan unleashed the war, and was defeated in that war; Azerbaijan asked for truce (including from the Commander of Karabakh's forces) and later started…

— Serzh Sargsyan

Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.

— Albert Einstein

The clatter of a changing world is not pleasant, and those who have enjoyed the comforts and protection of the old order may be…

— Helen Keller

The system [of thought] doesn't stay with the difficult problem that produces unpleasant feelings. It's conditioned somehow to move as fast as it can…

— David Bohm

What’s the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant it’s over.

— Elaine Dundy

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

— Muhammad Ali

Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we can seldom…

— James Boswell

The more perfect the sight is the more delightful the beautiful object. The more perfect the appetite, the sweeter the food. The more musical…

— Richard Baxter