Pleasant Quotes

896 Pleasant quotes by 655 unique authors

It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put… — Ernest Hemingway
The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it. — Pliny the Elder
It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like a train going… — Henry Ward Beecher
I'm a wealthy man now. I've got a flat, a car, I have enough money to buy food. I skate to make the people happy.… — Evgeni Plushenko
The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible,… — Plutarch
A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss… — William Penn
The things, that are repeated again and again, are pleasant. — Horace
The solitude lends much appeal, because a sea without a harbour surrounds it. Even a modest boat can find few anchorage, and nobody can go… — Tacitus
Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until we have been stuck, incapacitated, or blown off course for awhile. Plain sailing is pleasant, but you… — David Whyte
While fathers are pleasant figureheads, there is a special bond between children and their mothers. 'Do you help your mother clean up the house?' I… — Bill Cosby
Whatever you have received more than others-in health, in talents, in ability, in success, in a pleasant childhood, in harmonious conditions of home life-all this… — Albert Schweitzer
Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's… — Lucretius
We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant. — Albert Einstein
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril. — Lucretius
How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender. — William James
Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin,… — Saint Augustine
There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings as now… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word-father. — Lydia M. Child
A person will gain everyone's approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful. — Horace
Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go; while you may enjoy the flowers, you may not eat them. — E. W. Howe
The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have learned that in a long life we all eventually play the part of the betrayed, and we all eventually play the part of… — Robert Wagner
Like the Sweetness of Gardenias Mother, you died 15 years ago. pain, a rapier, cut until, finally, there was just peace like the sweetness of… — Wallace Stevens

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