Pleasant Quotes

896 Pleasant quotes by 655 unique authors

For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness. — Michel de Montaigne
Pleasant words are the food of love. — Unknown Author
H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be right.' That's the… — Clare Boothe Luce
We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how… — Virginia Woolf
I really never look at my health issues as 'Woe is me.' I've seen the reality of that. And it's not a pleasant thing. — Rick Majerus
It's true that every road leads to God. But only one way leads to a pleasant encounter with Him. — Kevin DeYoung
Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and… — Michel de Montaigne
God in the whizzing of a pleasant wind Shall march upon the tops of mulberry trees. — Unknown Author
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. — Seneca the Younger
It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman. — Seneca the Younger
I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more… — Pat Morita
There is (as I now find) no remorse for time long past, even for what may have mortified us or made us ashamed of ourselves… — George Santayana
I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road. — Adelaide Anne Procter
Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them? — Epictetus
It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be, Like all the rest, a mockery. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness. — Hesiod
Very often when I am introduced to women, I think, What is she really like behind the disguise which she wears? And very often I… — Robertson Davies
I have met charming people, lots who would be charming if they hadn't got a complex about the British and everyone has pleasant and cheerful… — Freya Stark
It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we may admire him. — John Barth
It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest. — Heraclitus
A pleasant comedy, which paints the manners of the age, and exposes a faithful picture of nature, is a durable work, and is transmitted to… — David Hume
While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people,… — Ann Beattie
How pleasant it is to have money. — Arthur Hugh Clough
When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I view the experiences that I have had - both the tough ones and the pleasant ones - as gifts. — Deval Patrick

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