Pleasant Quotes

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

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

The Inhabitants of Carolina, thro' the Richness of the Soil, live an easy and pleasant Life.

Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house.

I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.

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 long day, Nor ever once from the church to stray.

Long days and pleasant nights

Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.

O, Life! how pleasant is thy morning, Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning! Cold pausing Caution's lesson scorning, We frisk away, Like schoolboys, at the expected warning, To joy and play.

The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.

The pleasant life: a life that successfully pursues the positive emotions about the present, past, and future.

A reaction, to be pleasant, must be simple.

Too often we tell kids pleasant stories devoid of truth, and stories without truth are not good stories. Our audience deserves more from us.

A pleasant aperitif, as well as a good chaser for a short quick whiskey, as well again for a fine supper drink, is beer.

Geniuses are not always pleasant people.

Americans need to face the truth about themselves, no matter how pleasant it is.

When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.

Gardening is full of mistakes, almost all of them pleasant and some of them actually instructive.

It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.

I have nothing to say about my childhood. It was a perfectly pleasant upbringing - it's not like it was unhappy or anything.

All objects whether pleasant, unpleasant or neutral, are mere appearances to the mind just like things experienced in a dream

Come and have a go, if you think you're hard enough

Keep skid chains on your tongue. Say less than you think. Cultivate a pleasant voice. How you say it is often more important than what you say.

Oft a little morning rain Foretells a pleasant day.

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.

Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.

...to any one for whom wild things are something more than a pleasant diversion, (conservation) constitutes one of the milestones in moral evolution.

If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasant waters for our old age.

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

Fetching objects for people who are too lazy to fetch them for themselves is never a pleasant task, particularly when the people are insulting you.

You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.

Sometimes it's not what you say, Valkyrie, it's just the fact that you're saying it.

The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness.

In the beginning [Hitler] was genial and pleasant. He would have extraordinary willpower and unheard-of influence on people.

Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.

The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces!

The price we pay for our irresponsible explanatory urge is that we often spoil our most pleasant experiences by making good sense of them.

Happiness is simply a state of mind in which our thinking is pleasant a good share of the time.

Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant king

It was pleasant to talk shop again; to use that elliptical, allusive speech that one uses only with another of one's trade.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Off Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind.

You can only anticipate what someone is going to do if you know exactly what that someone has just done.' --Skulduggery

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.

I view the experiences that I have had - both the tough ones and the pleasant ones - as gifts.

Choose what is best, and habit will make it pleasant and easy.

The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond clear water in it. Some shady trees leaned over it, and rushes and water-lilies grew at the deep end.

there is such a mistaken notion abroad in this country that the individual who makes sharp remarks must be sincere, while the one who says pleasant things must be more or less a humbug.

For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.