Pleasant Quotes

By acting in a positive, pleasant and optimistic way, you become a positive, optimistic and enjoyable person.

A pleasant traveling companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. Each day is the scholar of yesterday.

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.

I was on the whole considerably discouraged by my school days... It is not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and left behind at the very beginning of the race.

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.

To be 'free' only when things are pleasant is not real freedom.

The air was cool enough to make the warm sun pleasant on one's back and shoulders, and so clear that the eye could follow a hawk up and up, into the blazing blue depths of the sky.

My god is a cheerful, pleasant, lively, and good-natured being.

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 finally become, for you, the same.

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin.

There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings as now in October.

Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process.

Fine wine leaves you with something pleasant. The ordinary wine just leaves.

Many pleasant things are better when they belong to someone else. When things belong to others, we enjoy them twice as much, without the risk of losing them, and with the pleasure of novelty.

The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.

I think you can learn to have much more pleasant thoughts moving through your mind that will help ease any situation, and it takes making a conscious choice to do so.

It's not that I want you to go, it's just that I don't want you to stay." - China Sorrows -

Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.

I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.

The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change.

With no pretensions of art, Viva Las Vegas, the new Elvis Presley vehicle, is about as pleasant and unimportant as a Banana Split.

Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing.

Most people live with pleasant illusions, but leaders must deal with hard realities.

I'm a very down-to-earth person, but it is my job to make that earth more pleasant.

The present's just a pleasant interruption to the past.

The first steps in self-acceptance are not at all pleasant, for what one sees is not a happy sight. One needs all the courage to go further.

It's true that every road leads to God. But only one way leads to a pleasant encounter with Him.

Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices.

You can't get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company.

You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.

A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent.

When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. I love to wander and muse over them in their graves. Here are no lying nor vain epitaphs.

If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.

Are you kidding? I jumped off a building -- of course I'm hurt.

One pleasant surprise was when I interviewed Butch Patrick. I was expecting this bitter old drunk, and instead he had a total sense of humor about his career and his drinking and drug problem.

She is pretty to walk with, And witty to talk with, And pleasant, too, to think on.

It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

[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 beings of dreams and pleasant stories.

Smoke like a chimney, work like a horse, eat without thinking, go for a walk only in really pleasant company.

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

How pleasant it is to have money.

The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.

Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.

Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . . . . No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.