Pleasant Quotes

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life. (Epicurus)
Choose what is best, and habit will make it pleasant and easy. View quote
Plutarch
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. View quote
Isaac Asimov
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. View quote
Nicolas Chamfort
It's even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a holiday. View quote
Anton Chekhov
There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people. View quote
Muhammad Ali
Doubt is a not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one. View quote
Voltaire
Enjoying things which are pleasant that is not the evil it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come. View quote
Gertrude Stein
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant. (Helen Keller)
Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. View quote
Spike Milligan
'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't. View quote
Lord Byron
There is no time like the pleasant. View quote
Oliver Herford
Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant. View quote
Lucretius
Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion. View quote
Tennessee Williams
Trust no future, however pleasant Let the dead past bury its dead Act, - act in the living Present Heart within and God overhead. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is right and necessary that all men should have work to do which shall be worth doing, and be of itself pleasant to do and which should he done under such conditions as would make it neither over-wearisome nor over-anxious. View quote
William Morris
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. (Samuel Johnson)
If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. View quote
Anne Bradstreet
Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it. View quote
Pierre Bonnard
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