Pleasant Quotes

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

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

I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use.

Though science has given us many marvels, it has also spoiled many of our pleasant dreams.

It's hard to look pleasant when anguish is present, and yet it is strictly worth while; Not all of your scowling and fussing and growling can show off your grit like a smile.

The tranquility or agitation of our temper does not depend so much on the big things which happen to us in life, as on the pleasant or unpleasant arrangements of the little things which happen daily.

They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain torpid began to stretch itself.

I love a ballad but even too well if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed and sung lamentably.

I don't know who I am. But I do know who I'm not. I have occasionally tried playing people I'm definitely not, and that wasn't a very pleasant experience.

A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.

Memories were like sunshine. They warmed you up and left a pleasant glow, but you couldn't hold them.

How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender.

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.

I have a problem with a lot of men's fragrances because they are very strong. Somebody somewhere thinks that masculine means powerful smells, and I find them overbearing and not very pleasant.

The first couple of days on the detox diet aren't pleasant.

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

Good resolutions are a pleasant crop to sow.

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 yes!

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as pleasant as possible, to the participants.

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 a pleasant genealogy for mankind.

We must learn to understand humanity better so that we can create an environment that is more beneficial to people, more rewarding, more pleasant to experience.

1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me

It would be pleasant to be drunk.

Courting Peggy McGrath provided me with a very pleasant diversion and eventually with the most important relationship of my life.

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

Women may be whole oceans deeper than we are, but they are also a whole paradise better. She may have got us out of Eden, but as a compensation she makes the earth very pleasant.

A pleasant letter I hold to be the pleasantest thing that this world has to give.

You dramatically increase your value to others if you always maintain a calm and pleasant manner.

I'm a nice guy to anyone I meet, until they show me they don't deserve niceness. I'll turn very quickly. But I'm pretty pleasant overall.

Attitudes are capable of making the same experience either pleasant or painful.

The memory of past troubles is pleasant. [Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.]

Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.

Be thankful for all your blessings. An appreciative person makes a pleasant and optimistic person.

Luxury bags make your life more pleasant, make you dream, give you confidence, and show your neighbors you are doing well.

I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.

I'm relatively physically adept and I like throwing myself around. Once, twice, but then you get to nine, ten, eleven and to try and make it look realistic all the time, that's not very pleasant.

Arnold Palmer has what I call an 'Eisenhower smile'. Those two men, they'd smile and their whole faces would look so pleasant; it was like they were smiling all over.

Dogs are very, very pleasant with people that they're connected to.

Arguing with somebody is never pleasant, but sometimes it is useful and necessary to do so.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.

There are certain ways of being that people don't find acceptable or very pleasant in regular life, but you go out on stage and do pretty much the same thing and they find it spellbinding.

To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.

Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.

If the world does need to repopulate at some point, the announcing team of Rob Lowe and Sofia Vergara, I think, would make very pleasant children.

I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war.

It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity.

Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them.