Pleasant Quotes

896 Pleasant quotes by 655 unique authors

It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another. — Lucretius
I've spent so much of my adult life in relationships that it's actually quite pleasant to be alone at last. I turned thirty-six the other… — Matt Roper
I am not generally regarded as a pleasant or socially minded fellow. — Caryl Chessman
The Inhabitants of Carolina, thro' the Richness of the Soil, live an easy and pleasant Life. — John Lawson
Awards are always a pleasant surprise. They are the candy-floss parts of our job - a lovely added extra to attract people's attention. The bottom… — Sophie Thompson
There is more to life than just existing and having a pleasant time. — Friedrich Schiller
It's pleasant to hear these nice words while I'm still alive. I'd rather have the taffy than the epitaphy. — Chauncey Depew
I love a ballad but even too well if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed and sung lamentably. — William Shakespeare
The way to heaven is too steep, too narrow for men to dance in and keep revel rout. No way is large or smooth enough… — William Prynne
Occasionally, you will be given the chance to be either intellectual or pleasant. Leave being intellectual to others. — Ernie J Zelinski
When we dare to doubt what we are told and take a fresh look at what's going on, we are in for lots of pleasant… — Douglas Harding
Is it not easy to conceive the World in your Mind? To think the Heavens fair? The Sun Glorious? The Earth fruitful? The Air Pleasant?… — Thomas Traherne
I got really excited about Beyoncé, but it was Beyoncé. I think I was more in awe of how pleasant she is. — Ester Dean
I know it is more agreeable to walk upon carpets than to lie upon dungeon floors, I know it is pleasant to have all the… — Henry Ward Beecher
At the approach of danger two voices speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man to consider the… — Leo Tolstoy
Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. [Lat., Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem: Dulce est desipere in loco. — Horace
Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others. — Baltasar Gracian
Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice. — James Russell Lowell
We find the Works of Nature still more pleasant, the more they resemble those of art. — Joseph Addison
It is essential... that discipline should not be practised like a rule imposed on oneself from the outside, but that it becomes an expression of… — Erich Fromm
For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I have lived in the past,… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Yet I will look upon thy face again, My own romantic Bronx, and it will be A face more pleasant than the face of men.… — Joseph Rodman Drake
It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another. — Lucretius

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