Pleasant Things Quotes
17 quotes by 16 authors
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There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
— Muhammad Ali
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I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president.
— Jimmy Carter
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Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many…
— Aldo Leopold
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One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role…
— Edward Abbey
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Mathematicians grow very old; it is a healthy profession. The reason you live long is that you have pleasant thoughts. Math and physics are very…
— Dirk Jan Struik
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Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant.
— Bertrand Russell
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Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.
— Baltasar Gracian
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One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.
— Gertrude Stein
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Pleasant things to hear, though hearing them from him embarrasses me. I soak up the praise but feel obliged to disparage the gift. I believe…
— Wallace Stegner
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It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there…
— Louisa May Alcott
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The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.
— Aristotle
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Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.
— Oscar Wilde
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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
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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
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Is marijuana addictive? Yes, in the sense that most of the really pleasant things in life are worth endlessly repeating.
— Richard Neville
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Take it for granted, when I am invited to lecture anywhere,for I have had a little experience in that business,that there is a desire to…
— Henry David Thoreau
Who Wrote These Pleasant Things Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 17 Pleasant Things Quotes as follows: