Pleasant Quotes

896 Pleasant quotes by 655 unique authors

To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal… — Joseph Joubert
They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside… — Anthony Holden
You have no idea how pleasant it is not to have any future. It's like having a totally efficient contraceptive. — Anthony Burgess
As I sat at the Cafe I said to myself, They may talk as they please about what they call pelf, They may sneer as… — Arthur Hugh Clough
To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison. — Robert Burchfield
Just as the good life is something beyond the pleasant life, the meaningful life is beyond the good life. — Martin Seligman
The price we pay for our irresponsible explanatory urge is that we often spoil our most pleasant experiences by making good sense of them. — Daniel Gilbert
Before creation, God did just pure mathematics. Then He thought it would be a pleasant change to do some applied. — John Edensor Littlewood
Why should we break up Our snug and pleasant party? Time was made for slaves, But never for us so hearty. — John Baldwin Buckstone
Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you have always wanted to do but could… — Ann Landers
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not… — Theodore Roosevelt
Children need directing and teaching what is right in a kind, affectionate manner How often we see parents demand obedience, good behavior, kind words, pleasant… — Brigham Young
The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness. — Vincent Massey
Science which is acquired unwillingly, soon disappears; that which is instilled into the mind in a pleasant and agreeable manner, is more lasting. — Saint Basil
Do not feed children on a maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature. Let their souls drink in all that is pure and sweet.… — Luther Burbank
It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem… — Sarah Orne Jewett
I tend to always carry a camera with me. I live next to a fire station, and I've got lots of photos of the hook… — Gordon Bell
It pays no matter what comes after it, to try and do things, to accomplish things in this life and not merely to have a… — Theodore Roosevelt
I shall look forward to a pleasant time. — John Hancock
Sometimes when you are with an enlightened teacher, you will feel both pleasant and unpleasant things magnified. That happens when you meditate with someone who… — Frederick Lenz
The reason for not going out and sinning all you like is the same as the reason for not going out and putting your nose… — Robert Farrar Capon
Men are very easy to get along with- they just want to come home to something pleasant. — Laura Schlessinger
It was pleasant to me to get a letter from you the other day. Perhaps I should have found it pleasanter if I had been… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Chronic negative thinking and the emotions it invokes is, like many destructive behaviors, a form of addiction... it may not be very pleasant, but it's… — Lauren Mackler
The amount of force and violence necessary to board the train, for example was no less and no more than the amoount of politeness and… — Gregory David Roberts

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