Pleasant Quotes

896 Pleasant quotes by 655 unique authors

It seems mutants have something in their lives called gravy. They know truth, but it is buried under thickening and spices of convenience, materialism, insecurity,… — Marlo Morgan
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable… — Seneca the Younger
Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy particular preferences, to… — Friedrich August von Hayek
All we have to do is to receive what we are given...We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to… — Vernon Howard
Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant… — Hippocrates
Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken. — Albert Einstein
The Mathematics are Friends to Religion, inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of the Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and… — John Arbuthnot
It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Luxury bags make your life more pleasant, make you dream, give you confidence, and show your neighbors you are doing well. — Karl Lagerfeld
There are certain things that our age needs, and certain things that it should avoid. It needs compassion and a wish that mankind should be… — Bertrand Russell
A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death. — Friedrich Nietzsche
[Angels] aid us in our personal mission. We have to learn to listen, for if we block the angels out, they become only the fairy… — Silver RavenWolf
It was my teacher's genius, her quick sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of my education so beautiful. It was because she… — Helen Keller
No bought potpourri is so pleasant as that made from ones own garden, for the petals of the flowers one has gathered at home hold… — Unknown Author
Upon the whole, Chymistry is as yet but an opening science, closely connected with the usefull and ornamental arts, and worthy the attention of the… — Joseph Black
I spend money on war because it is necessary, but to spend it on science, that is pleasant to me. This object costs no tears;… — George III
The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect… — Queen Elizabeth II
I was unable to walk for a whole week after that, so much did the race take out of me. But it was the most… — Emil Zatopek
I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between… — Samuel Johnson
All my sermons are prepared in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. As recreation is most pleasant and profitable in the sun, so homiletic creativity… — Fulton J. Sheen
Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often… — Og Mandino
Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry, stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie. — William Shakespeare
I dust [your photo] carefully every morning, for to do so gives me the pleasant feeling that I'm caressing you as in the old days.… — Nelson Mandela
The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible. — Michel de Montaigne
A good conscience will be found a pleasant visitor at our bedside in a dying hour. — J C Ryle

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