Be generous, and pleasant-tempered, and forgiving; even as God scatter favors over thee, do thou scatter over the people. — Saadi Copy Share Image
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Oh, yes, of course I like music, too. Very much. It's so pleasant of an evening, especially when made by your friends… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
Watching him during the first several minutes of his delivery, Cecilia felt a pleasant sinking sensation in her stomach as she contemplated… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Do you, like a skilful weigher, put into the balance the pleasures and the pains, near and distant, and weigh them, and… — Plato Copy Share Image
Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We weren't allowing our hopes to become expectations. Expectations are tempting, pleasant, maybe necessary. They are scary too, once you have had… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to… — Ouida Copy Share Image
I f thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
She was, in fact, quite a pleasant looking girl, even if her bosom had clearly been intended for a girl two feet… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
It is essential... that discipline should not be practised like a rule imposed on oneself from the outside, but that it becomes… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
It isn't pleasant to surrender to the hegemony of a nation which is still wild and primitive, and to concede the absolute… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
We make our days pleasant or miserable. If we insist on being miserable, irritable and nasty, more than likely the day will… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Nothing but Christianity will give you the victory. Until a man believes in his heart that Jesus Christ is his Lord and… — Francis Scott Key Copy Share Image
Keep skid chains on your tongue. Say less than you think. Cultivate a pleasant voice. How you say it is often more… — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
Smoke like a chimney, work like a horse, eat without thinking, go for a walk only in really pleasant company. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In an unpredictable and unpleasant world it was both unusual and very pleasant to hear what I wanted to hear. — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
Elrond's house was perfect, whether you liked food or sleep or story-telling or singing (or reading), or just sitting and thinking best,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My parents are very humble people who have simple lives... they live in a pleasant little town in China. — Liu Wen Copy Share Image
While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the… — Ann Beattie Copy Share Image
I'll say this, and this has nothing to do with gender or sexuality: You do not want to get licked in the… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
