Pleasant Quotes

896 Pleasant quotes by 655 unique authors

Good sportsmanship we hail, we sing, It's always pleasant when you spot it. There's only one unhappy thing: You have to lose to prove that… — Richard Armour
Few things are more pleasant than a village graced with a good church, a good priest and a good pub. — John Hillaby
Everything is accessible to everyone all the time, and I think there are wondrous things to treasure with what the Internet has made available to… — Bill Keller
I have come to see that our problem is that we don't know what happiness is. We confuse it with a life uncluttered by feelings… — Mark Epstein
Christians don't seem to be as aware of, or as sensitive to, the dire state of humanity as they are about the pleasant growth of… — Larry Norman
In a pleasant spring morning all men's sins are forgiven. — Henry David Thoreau
The first pleasant days of spring come out like a squirrel and go in again. — Henry David Thoreau
They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain… — Henry David Thoreau
I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe But there is something about building up… — Edmund Hillary
I commonly went ashore every day, either upon business, or to recreate myself in the fields, which were very pleasant, and the more for a… — William Dampier
Every Thanksgiving table should be blessed with the presence of a long-married pair who bring out the best in each other, are completely enamored despite… — Martha Stewart
Investment bubbles and high animal spirits do not materialize out of thin air. They need extremely favorable economic fundamentals together with free and easy, cheap… — Jeremy Grantham
Scuba Blue offers a feeling of escape as it is reminiscent of a tropical ocean. This stirring and energizing shade takes us off to an… — Leatrice Eiseman
It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled,… — Larry Wall
He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing… — Christian Nestell Bovee
O it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Immortality—dazzling idea! who first imagined thee! Was it some jolly burgher of Nuremburg, who with night-cap on his head, and white clay pipe in mouth,… — Heinrich Heine
I plant rosemary all over the garden, so pleasant is it to know that at every few steps one may draw the kindly branchlets through… — Gertrude Jekyll
Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form that includes all… — Wendell Berry
Love of fame, fear of disgrace, schemes for advancement, desire to make life comfortable and pleasant, and the urge to humiliate others are often at… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One anticipates the unpleasant… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to… — William C. Bryant
One of my less pleasant chores when I was young was to read the Bible from one end to the other. Reading the Bible straight… — John W. Gardner
The tranquility or agitation of our temper does not depend so much on the big things which happen to us in life, as on the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Franklin D. Roosevelt is no crusader. He is no tribune of the people. He is no enemy of entrenched privilege. He is a pleasant man… — Walter Lippmann

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