Pleasant Quotes

896 Pleasant quotes by 655 unique authors

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton
In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go… — John Milton
What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene, and joyful? O… — Charles Dickens
Enjoyment, on the other hand, is not always pleasant, and it can be very stressful at times. A mountain climber, for example, may be close… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Christmas at my house is always at least six or seven times more pleasant than anywhere else. We start drinking early. And while everyone else… — W.C. Fields
This is not a pleasant route for many young people to consider. You have to be either hopelessly passionate, or very stupid. — Twyla Tharp
Just the pleasure of moving and the pleasure of using your body is, I think, maybe the main point. And the pleasure of dancing with… — Steve Paxton
If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so… — Anne Bradstreet
No doubt the truth is hard to come by for those who do not like the sound of it - dreams and illusions are so… — Unknown Author
A baby changes your dinner party conversation from politics to poops [very pleasant thanks for that mental image Maurice!] — Unknown Author
Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing more courageous, nothing higher, nothing wider, nothing more pleasant, nothing fuller nor better in heaven and earth; because love… — Thomas a Kempis
Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to… — Lucy Larcom
I believe a man is born first unto himself - for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty… — D. H. Lawrence
Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is. — Thomas Carlyle
The idea that addiction is somehow a psychological illness is, I think, totally ridiculous. It's as psychological as malaria. It's a matter of exposure. People,… — William S. Burroughs
Off Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind. — John Masefield
But if at church they would give some ale. And a pleasant fire our souls to regale. We'd sing and we'd pray all the live… — William Blake
Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . . .… — Seneca the Younger
Our ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim-bladder, a great swimming tail, an imperfect skull & undoubtedly was an hermaphrodite! Here is… — Charles Darwin
I'm a very down-to-earth person, but it is my job to make that earth more pleasant. — Karl Lagerfeld
Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very… — Ray Bradbury
When you choose to be pleasant and positive in the way you treat others, you have also chosen, in most cases, how you are going… — Zig Ziglar
And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. — Anne Bradstreet
Nothing erases unpleasant thoughts more effectively than conscious concentration on pleasant ones. — Hans Selye

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