Pleasant Quotes

Pleasant Quote of the day

Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets.

We must all learn to hear what we do not like. The question is not, 'Is it pleasant?' but, 'Is it true?'

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; it is an honour to humanity

It is as true as that night follows day, that the man who does more than he is paid for, and does it in a pleasant mental attitude, sooner or later is paid for more than he does.

To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.

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 welcome.

I don't like American girls. They're very conceited, you know. In Europe they're more pleasant.

You must be oh-so smart, or oh-so pleasant. For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant...and you may quote me.

If you know how to keep yourself pleasant within, irrespective of what is happening around you, Ultimate Liberation cannot be denied to you.

You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute, And now and then stab, as occasion serves.

Just as the good life is something beyond the pleasant life, the meaningful life is beyond the good life.

There are few things so pleasant as a picnic eaten in perfect comfort.

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.

When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are.

We're not retreating, we're advancing in reverse.' --Skulduggery Pleasant

Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved.

When the spirit shines, even foggy skies make pleasant light.

I shall look forward to a pleasant time.

Develop a mind that is vast like space, where experiences both pleasant and unpleasant can appear and disappear without conflict, struggle or harm. Rest in a mind like vast sky.

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.

Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.

And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen?

I love you all, even those I don’t particularly like. That’s you, Beryl.

('Stairway to Heaven' is) a nice pleasant, well-meaning naive little song, very English. It's not the definitive Led Zeppelin song. 'Kashmir' is.

The question for me is whether we can keep Earth a safe, pleasant place for humankind and the ecosystems we rely on.

Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it might be.

Do you want to know the easiest way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences of someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Almost all words do have colour and nothing is more pleasant than to utter a pink word and see someone's eyes light up and know it is a pink word for him or her too.

[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.

In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow, Hast so much wit and mirth and spleen about thee, There is no living with thee, nor without thee.

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 with technicians.

It's a fun day, a day which kicks off the start of our tour, it's got great tradition - Australian cricketers just love tradition - and it's been a really pleasant day.

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.

Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry, stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

Learn to be satisfied. It is just as easy as being dissatisfied-and much more pleasant.

Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives.

The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'.

[In Bali] life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one's own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.

Few things are more pleasant than a village graced with a good church, a good priest and a good pub.

Eating chocolate can have significant influences on mood, generally leading to an increase in pleasant feelings and a reduction in tension.

When you defile the pleasant streams, And the wild bird's abiding place, You massacre a million dreams, And cast your spittle in God's face

No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.

I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.

To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not alone good manners, but equally good business.

Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.

Filling my mind with pleasant thoughts is the quickest road to health.

Don't lie to me. Don't deceive me. Give me the truth. Even if it breaks me. A painful truth is better than a pleasant lie.