Pleasant Quotes

896 Pleasant quotes by 655 unique authors

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself. — Elbert Hubbard
It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like. — Victor Hugo
It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so. — Jerome K. Jerome
This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're… — Steve Jobs
You know, the standard state for people is 'mildly pleasant.' Negative emotions are quite rare, and extremely positive emotions are rare. But people are mildly… — Daniel Kahneman
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant. — Helen Keller
Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant. — Loretta Lynn
Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages. — James Madison
Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. — H. L. Mencken
The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces,… — John Stuart Mill
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. — Spike Milligan
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue. — Moliere
Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not. — Anna Neagle
I have nothing to say about my childhood. It was a perfectly pleasant upbringing - it's not like it was unhappy or anything. — Graham Norton
A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from… — Ivor Novello
The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and… — Blaise Pascal
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes… — Norman Vincent Peale
There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is… — Georges Pompidou
President Obama hasn't been elected by the American people in order to be pleasant to Russia. — Vladimir Putin
I'm not clean or even vaguely pleasant to be around in a domestic situation. — Daniel Radcliffe
There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages. — Rainer Maria Rilke
People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends… — David Rockefeller
Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others. — David Rockefeller
She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should… — Christina Rossetti

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