It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
There have been hours in my unhappy life, many of them, when the contemplation of death as the end of earthly sorrow… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
My main interest... is the love of truth, whether pleasant or not. Truth is self-sufficient, and there is nothing to which it… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
I view the experiences that I have had - both the tough ones and the pleasant ones - as gifts. — Deval Patrick Copy Share Image
Science which is acquired unwillingly, soon disappears; that which is instilled into the mind in a pleasant and agreeable manner, is more… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
You must know that when you 'hail' Mary, she immediately greets you! Don't think that she is one of those rude women… — Bernardino of Siena Copy Share Image
Oh England is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high, But England is a cruel place for such poor folks… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
That's what it's like to be a comedian. You basically stand and stare at the world and hope it craps out cause… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I think you can learn to have much more pleasant thoughts moving through your mind that will help ease any situation, and… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
You have no idea how pleasant it is not to have any future. It's like having a totally efficient contraceptive. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Let any stranger find mee so pleasant a county, such good way, large heath, three such places as Norwich, Yar. and Lin.… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Sin always seems 'good, and pleasant, and desirable,' at the time of commission. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. . . . How beautifully they go to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
There are some books and characters so pleasant, or rather which contain so much that is pleasant, that criticism is perplexed or… — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
If you see yourself in a favorable light, if your image of yourself is pleasant, if this visual concept of yourself cannot… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
As reason returned to me, memory came with it, and I saw that even on the worst days, when I thought I… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
Every Thanksgiving table should be blessed with the presence of a long-married pair who bring out the best in each other, are… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices. — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Here I am in the garden laughing an old woman with heavy breasts and a nicely mapped face how did this happen… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
As it is pleasant to see the sea from the land, so it is pleasant for him who has escaped from troubles… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
