Quotes about Pleasant

We're not retreating, we're advancing in reverse.' --Skulduggery Pleasant Votes: 4

You are a cynical man, Mr. Pleasant." "We live in cynical times, Miss Cain. Votes: 4

Pleasant words are the food of love. Votes: 3

Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past. Votes: 3

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue. Votes: 3

Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth. Votes: 3

You need to find yourself a new hero." - Skulduggery Pleasant. Votes: 3

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. Votes: 3

Please forgive me," Pleasant said, then aimed the gun at the girl and pulled the trigger. Votes: 3

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself. Votes: 3

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril. Votes: 3

My home is a happy place to be. I bless everyone who enters, myself included. Pleasant experiences fill every room. Votes: 3

Bitter your acts, bitter am I,Kindness your deeds, kindness am I,Pleasant and gentle, so you are,Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker. Votes: 3

It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be, Like all the rest, a mockery. Votes: 3

Burn, O evening hearth, and waken Pleasant visions, as of old! Though the house by winds be shaken, Safe I keep this room of gold! Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator. Votes: 3

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful. Votes: 3

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important. Votes: 3

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not. Votes: 2

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend. Votes: 2

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. Votes: 2

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people. Votes: 2

1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me Votes: 2

Dogs are very, very pleasant with people that they're connected to. Votes: 2

Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant. Votes: 2

Filling my mind with pleasant thoughts is the quickest road to health. Votes: 2

If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new. Votes: 2

I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was. Votes: 2

Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places. Votes: 2

As it fell upon a day in the merry month of May, sitting in a pleasant shade which a grove of myrtles made. Votes: 2

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant... Votes: 2

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks. Votes: 2

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You're trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren't very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product. Votes: 2

Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "In this world, Elwood, you must be" - she always called me Elwood - "In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me. Votes: 2

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it. Votes: 1

I'm a quiet person, and I live a quiet, pleasant, ordinary, simple life. Votes: 1

No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience. Votes: 1

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day. Votes: 1

There are few sights more pleasant to the eye than a wide cotton field when it is in bloom. It presents an appearance of purity, like an immaculate expanse of light, new-fallen snow. Votes: 1

In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like medicine or engineering, it had a definite, valuable purpose: to foster 'comprehension.' Votes: 1

Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success. Votes: 1

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas. Votes: 1

I commonly went ashore every day, either upon business, or to recreate myself in the fields, which were very pleasant, and the more for a shower of rain now and then, that ushers in the wet season. Votes: 1

It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination. Votes: 1

There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be. Votes: 1

Watching TV is companionable: you share an experience, you can comment on the action here and there for a bit of conversation... it's a way of showing someone that you want his or her company and engaging in a low-key, pleasant, undemanding way. Votes: 1

I was on the beach every summer. That was the pleasant part of my childhood because we were right by the sea. We'd take a picnic, and I'd spend hours in the water until I turned blue. You couldn't get me out of there. Votes: 1

I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year. Votes: 1

What is beauty, anyway? It's more than something pleasant looking. If it doesn't stop us in our tracks and make us unable to move for a moment, unable to put into words what's closing off the breath in our throats, then maybe it's pretty, but it probably isn't beauty. Votes: 1

Conclusions are not always pleasant. Votes: 0

Long days and pleasant nights Votes: 0

Imagination is a pleasant phenomenon. Votes: 0

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them. Votes: 0

Geniuses are not always pleasant people. Votes: 0

Nonsense, now and then, is pleasant. Votes: 0

Truth is not always a pleasant thing. Votes: 0

A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant. Votes: 0

It is pleasant to recall past troubles. Votes: 0

It won't be pleasant." "Nothing ever is. Votes: 0

How pleasant it is to have money. Votes: 0

Good night and have a pleasant tomorrow, Votes: 0

It would be pleasant to be drunk. Votes: 0

There is no time like the pleasant. Votes: 0

A reaction, to be pleasant, must be simple. Votes: 0

Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity. Votes: 0

Good resolutions are a pleasant crop to sow. Votes: 0

Painful truth is better than a pleasant lie. Votes: 0

Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did. Votes: 0

We talked filth for a pleasant half hour. Votes: 0

To speak the truth is easy and pleasant. Votes: 0

I shall look forward to a pleasant time. Votes: 0

Okay, the experience itself was a pleasant experience. Votes: 0

Tiangong 1, our home in space, was comfortable and pleasant. Votes: 0

A pleasant companion reduces the length of the journey. Votes: 0

Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant king Votes: 0

Truly, a little love-making is a very pleasant thing ... Votes: 0

Singing is basically a form of pleasant, controlled screaming. Votes: 0

Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process. Votes: 0

It is pleasant at times to play the madman. Votes: 0

Everything has a reason, even things that aren't pleasant. Votes: 0

It is so easy to believe in pleasant impossibilities. Votes: 0

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others. Votes: 0

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety. Votes: 0

Truth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter. Votes: 0

Oft a little morning rain Foretells a pleasant day. Votes: 0

Whisky making is the art of making poison pleasant Votes: 0

For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant. Votes: 0

A pleasant companion is as good as a coach. Votes: 0

The present's just a pleasant interruption to the past. Votes: 0

Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets.... Votes: 0

It was almost pleasant, in a life-sucks-but-at-least-there's-good-music sort of way. Votes: 0

The things, that are repeated again and again, are pleasant. Votes: 0

When the spirit shines, even foggy skies make pleasant light. Votes: 0

Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty. Votes: 0

My god is a cheerful, pleasant, lively, and good-natured being. Votes: 0

In a pleasant spring morning all men's sins are forgiven. Votes: 0

No good thing is pleasant without friends to share it. Votes: 0

There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages. Votes: 0

It's not pleasant when you lose your whole football team. Votes: 0

It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman. Votes: 0

Tis pleasant to have a large heap to take from. Votes: 0

We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. Votes: 0

Rarely do I attach guilt to something pleasant. Life's too short. Votes: 0

It is not pleasant to have a stranger doubt your respectability. Votes: 0

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes. Votes: 0

Good golf is easier to play-and far more pleasant-than bad golf. Votes: 0

Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that. Votes: 0

Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are! Votes: 0

Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading. Votes: 0

Fresh October brings the pheasant, The to gather nuts is pleasant. Votes: 0

I make honorable things pleasant to children." A teacher from Sparta Votes: 0

It is more pleasant to remember others than to be remembered. Votes: 0

No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word-father. Votes: 0

It is pleasant that there will be no religions in heaven. Votes: 0

Netflix trusted me in a way that was very, very pleasant. Votes: 0

I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones. Votes: 0

The first couple of days on the detox diet aren't pleasant. Votes: 0

We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. Votes: 0

1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me: Votes: 0

And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters Votes: 0

The trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people. Votes: 0

We meet thee, like a pleasant thought, When such are wanted. Votes: 0

The experience of pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral is the consequences of perception. Votes: 0

The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful Votes: 0

I am not generally regarded as a pleasant or socially minded fellow. Votes: 0

I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use. Votes: 0

... a bit of conversational sex makes a pleasant climate for creative effort ... Votes: 0

Nothing erases unpleasant thoughts more effectively than conscious concentration on pleasant ones. Votes: 0

Fine wine leaves you with something pleasant. The ordinary wine just leaves. Votes: 0

[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant. Votes: 0

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. Votes: 0

Attitudes are capable of making the same experience either pleasant or painful. Votes: 0

Choose what is best, and habit will make it pleasant and easy. Votes: 0

To be 'free' only when things are pleasant is not real freedom. Votes: 0

Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life. Votes: 0

Life would be very pleasant if it were not for its enjoyments. Votes: 0

For the people of God, the Word of God leaves pleasant bruises. Votes: 0

I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy. Votes: 0

When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness. Votes: 0

Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant. Votes: 0

Peace is so beneficial that the word itself is pleasant to hear. Votes: 0

If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves. Votes: 0

Bad circumstances have a way of ruining things that would otherwise be pleasant. Votes: 0

I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road. Votes: 0

Most people live with pleasant illusions, but leaders must deal with hard realities. Votes: 0

The trouble with Hollywood films is that they always have a pleasant ending. Votes: 0

Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives. Votes: 0

Why was so much evil pleasant, pretty on the outside, like poisoned candy? Votes: 0

Sweet sleep fell upon his eyelids, unwakeful, most pleasant, the nearest like death. Votes: 0

It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato. Votes: 0

The memory of past troubles is pleasant. [Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.] Votes: 0

Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time. Votes: 0

The Christians are coming to get you, and they are not pleasant people. Votes: 0

I am fine until chest . deep inside the heart is not so pleasant Votes: 0

My object is to save the world, while still leading a pleasant life. Votes: 0

There is more to life than just existing and having a pleasant time. Votes: 0

People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not. Votes: 0

In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind. Votes: 0

In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles. Votes: 0

A cat understands how to be pleasant in the morning. He doesn't talk. Votes: 0

To love you was pleasant enough. And, oh! 'tis delicious to hate you! Votes: 0

There are few things so pleasant as a picnic eaten in perfect comfort. Votes: 0

Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn. Votes: 0

I'll confess it is pleasant to look at you asleep. You're quite beautiful, Clarice. Votes: 0

You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant. Votes: 0

Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters let it be somewhat grave. Votes: 0

Well I'd certainly hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death. Votes: 0

To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison. Votes: 0

Always plan for the worst, child, that way all your surprises are pleasant ones. Votes: 0

Americans need to face the truth about themselves, no matter how pleasant it is. Votes: 0

Sin always seems 'good, and pleasant, and desirable,' at the time of commission. Votes: 0

A person will gain everyone's approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful. Votes: 0

When it is moving on luxurious wings, The soul is lost in pleasant smotherings. Votes: 0

It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went. Votes: 0

To utter pleasant words without practicing them, is like a fine flower without fragrance. Votes: 0

I'm not clean or even vaguely pleasant to be around in a domestic situation. Votes: 0

It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night. Votes: 0

We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant. Votes: 0

It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight. Votes: 0

Laughter is pleasant, but the exertion at my age is too much for me. Votes: 0

Advice is like kissing: it costs nothing and is a pleasant thing to do. Votes: 0

How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender. Votes: 0

If you are honest with yourself, your life will be so much more pleasant. Votes: 0

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us. Votes: 0

Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea. Votes: 0

Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice. Votes: 0

It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts. Votes: 0

There are two roads to every place, and the wise man chooses the pleasant one. Votes: 0

Learn to be satisfied. It is just as easy as being dissatisfied-and much more pleasant. Votes: 0

[The Devil's] laws are easy, and his gentle sway, Makes it exceeding pleasant to obey . Votes: 0

You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute, And now and then stab, when occasion serves. Votes: 0

If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new. Votes: 0

Lady Wisdom will be your close friend; and Brother Knowledge will be your pleasant companion. Votes: 0

Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble. Votes: 0

Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book. Votes: 0

My wife calls me grumpy cat. I'm normally a very pleasant person to be around. Votes: 0

I don't like American girls. They're very conceited, you know. In Europe they're more pleasant. Votes: 0

The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here. Votes: 0

If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new. Votes: 0

Be thankful for all your blessings. An appreciative person makes a pleasant and optimistic person. Votes: 0

It was so pleasant, chaotic, emotionless, nameless-everything vibrating so beautifully in the universe without words. Votes: 0

The first pleasant days of spring come out like a squirrel and go in again. Votes: 0

No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler. Votes: 0

It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself. Votes: 0

The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here. Votes: 0

However, very recently I have come to an understanding that complex music is not necessarily pleasant. Votes: 0

It is wonderful how attractive a gentle, pleasant manner is, and how much it wins hearts. Votes: 0

Though science has given us many marvels, it has also spoiled many of our pleasant dreams. Votes: 0

In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood. Votes: 0

Arguing with somebody is never pleasant, but sometimes it is useful and necessary to do so. Votes: 0

The Inhabitants of Carolina, thro' the Richness of the Soil, live an easy and pleasant Life. Votes: 0

I feel an unfamiliar but pleasant sensation in my lips, tugging them upward. This is... new. Votes: 0

You dramatically increase your value to others if you always maintain a calm and pleasant manner. Votes: 0

Gardening is full of mistakes, almost all of them pleasant and some of them actually instructive. Votes: 0

Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. Votes: 0

There are three levels of happiness: the pleasant life, the good life, and the meaningful life. Votes: 0

Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant. Votes: 0

Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing. Votes: 0

People will assign irrational importance to almost anything in quotes on top of a pleasant image Votes: 0

To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not only good manners, but equally good business. Votes: 0

We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones. Votes: 0

If you wait until circumstances justify your thinking pleasant thoughts, you are likely to wait forever. Votes: 0

Women can instantly see through each other, and it's surprising how little they observe that's pleasant. Votes: 0

Death is, in fact, oddly pleasant, and certainly an improvement on what comes immediately before it. Votes: 0

President Obama hasn't been elected by the American people in order to be pleasant to Russia. Votes: 0

Happy who in his verse can gently steer From grave to light, from pleasant to severe. Votes: 0

It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we may admire him. Votes: 0

We find the Works of Nature still more pleasant, the more they resemble those of art. Votes: 0

I'm a very down-to-earth person, but it is my job to make that earth more pleasant. Votes: 0

I have come to the conclusion that life in the Antarctic Regions can be very pleasant. Votes: 0

I'm not 100% nice all the time, so I find it quite hard to be really pleasant. Votes: 0

It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts. Votes: 0

I've always had a kind of visual eye, and it was a pleasant exercise for that. Votes: 0

A pleasant letter I hold to be the pleasantest thing that this world has to give. Votes: 0

A good conscience will be found a pleasant visitor at our bedside in a dying hour. Votes: 0

Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man. Votes: 0

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. Votes: 0

I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly. Votes: 0

Having a pleasant time can extend a long period of time to have a fun time. Votes: 0

God in the whizzing of a pleasant wind Shall march upon the tops of mulberry trees. Votes: 0

The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it. Votes: 0

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. Votes: 0

Dear Mother, dear Mother, the Church is cold, But the Ale-house is healthy and pleasant and warm. Votes: 0

Villa Grande has in many ways symbolized an important, but less than pleasant, part of our history. Votes: 0

You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me. Votes: 0

Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken. Votes: 0

I have always found writing pleasant and don't understand what people mean by 'throes of creation.' Votes: 0

I admit, I was fascinated by Adolf Hitler. He was a pleasant boss and a fatherly friend. Votes: 0

Usually, I play the bad guy, so it's been a pleasant break to play a good guy. Votes: 0

Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit Votes: 0

It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences. Votes: 0

To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. Votes: 0

the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by. Votes: 0

I have always thought of Christmas time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time. Votes: 0

If it's torture flying one airline and [yours] is a pleasant experience, it certainly helps your revenue. Votes: 0

By acting in a positive, pleasant and optimistic way, you become a positive, optimistic and enjoyable person. Votes: 0

The pleasant life: a life that successfully pursues the positive emotions about the present, past, and future. Votes: 0

The almost universal gift everyone can develop is the creation of a pleasant disposition, an even temperament. Votes: 0

It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another. Votes: 0

skulduggery pleasant is the best book I've ever read and has enspired myself to become an author. Votes: 0

Aberystwyth (n.) A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for. Votes: 0

Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. Votes: 0

Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man. Votes: 0

I always love to be careful with my expectations so that life has pleasant surprises for me. Votes: 0

Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry, stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie. Votes: 0

Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face. Votes: 0

It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house. Votes: 0

It's this no-nonsense side of women that is pleasant to deal with. They are the real sportsmen. Votes: 0

Men are very easy to get along with- they just want to come home to something pleasant. Votes: 0

Love is more pleasant once you get out of your twenties. It doesn't hurt all the time. Votes: 0

She is pretty to walk with, And witty to talk with, And pleasant, too, to think on. Votes: 0

The virtuous nothing fear but life with shame, And death's a pleasant road that leads to fame. Votes: 0

I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read. Votes: 0

Off Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind. Votes: 0

Over the past 10 years of being famous, my relationship with the camera has not been a pleasant one. Votes: 0

Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't. Votes: 0

Memories were like sunshine. They warmed you up and left a pleasant glow, but you couldn't hold them. Votes: 0

If you want to have a more pleasant,cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, emphatic, consistent, loving parent. Votes: 0

Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true. Votes: 0

Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is pleasant. Votes: 0

Praise when merited is not a boon: yet to a generous nature, is it pleasant to utter it. Votes: 0

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant. Votes: 0

Baltimore is warm but pleasant... I belong here, where everything is civilized and gay and rotted and polite. Votes: 0

To the question what wine he found pleasant to drink, he replied, "That for which other people pay. Votes: 0

Some things in life are not pleasant but they have to be done. For instance, German and maths. Votes: 0

It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing Votes: 0

Once I've met someone, the years cannot erase, the memory of a pleasant word or a friendly face. Votes: 0

And hear the pleasant cockoo, loud and long - The simple bird that thinks two notes a song. Votes: 0

I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it. Votes: 0

Fun-run" indeed,what a misnomer. That'd be like saying "calm gremlin" or "pleasant hag." Or 'entertaining history textbook. Votes: 0

In the beginning [Hitler] was genial and pleasant. He would have extraordinary willpower and unheard-of influence on people. Votes: 0

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't. Votes: 0

It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing. Votes: 0

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them? Votes: 0

Painting isn't just pretty or pleasant; it is something that helps you to stand alone and face yourself. Votes: 0

In a nutshell, when life is pleasant, think of others. When life is a burden, think of others. Votes: 0

Occasionally, you will be given the chance to be either intellectual or pleasant. Leave being intellectual to others. Votes: 0

I think one can achieve a very pleasant lifestyle by treating human beings, fellow human beings, very well. Votes: 0

It's pleasant to hear these nice words while I'm still alive. I'd rather have the taffy than the epitaphy. Votes: 0

It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity. Votes: 0

Just as the good life is something beyond the pleasant life, the meaningful life is beyond the good life. Votes: 0

Thanks to you guys and girls who read my stuff, too. May you have long days and pleasant nights. Votes: 0

It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action. Votes: 0

Life can be pleasant or miserable. To lead a fruitful life, and to make it positive, practice analytical meditation. Votes: 0

Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind. Votes: 0

Shooting in Los Angeles is always pleasant and comfortable. Shooting in New York is like being on 'Survivor.' Votes: 0

The stately Homes of England,How beautiful they stand!Amidst their tall ancestral trees,O'er all the pleasant land. Votes: 0

We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream. Votes: 0

For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness. Votes: 0

It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well. Votes: 0

I'm always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure. Votes: 0

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire. Votes: 0

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it. Votes: 0

Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised. Votes: 0

Each year we look for a big name that is attractive to the public and pleasant for the girls. Votes: 0

It's true that every road leads to God. But only one way leads to a pleasant encounter with Him. Votes: 0

A man does not buy his wife a fur coat to keep her warm, but to keep her pleasant. Votes: 0

An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be. Votes: 0

The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness. Votes: 0

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income. Votes: 0

I wonder if that isn't the most sinful thing of all -- thinking all the pleasant things are wicked. Votes: 0

Be generous, and pleasant-tempered, and forgiving; even as God scatter favors over thee, do thou scatter over the people. Votes: 0

Advice can be like cod liver oil, easy enough to administer but not so pleasant to take for anybody. Votes: 0

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like. Votes: 0

I'm kind of embarrassed by how quickly I adjusted to L.A. I really love it. It's so pleasant. Votes: 0

My parents are very humble people who have simple lives... they live in a pleasant little town in China. Votes: 0

A baby changes your dinner party conversation from politics to poops [very pleasant thanks for that mental image Maurice!] Votes: 0

Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents. Votes: 0

Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy. Votes: 0

I still felt fondness for her - fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia. Votes: 0

A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come. Votes: 0

Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house. Votes: 0

Courting Peggy McGrath provided me with a very pleasant diversion and eventually with the most important relationship of my life. Votes: 0

And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant. Votes: 0

All objects whether pleasant, unpleasant or neutral, are mere appearances to the mind just like things experienced in a dream Votes: 0

God leads His people whether they are obedient or rebellious, but His leading is far more pleasant when they obey. Votes: 0

It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest. Votes: 0

...nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book... ... Votes: 0

It is pleasant to see a notorious profligate seized with a concern for religion, and converting his spleen into zeal. Votes: 0

Before creation, God did just pure mathematics. Then He thought it would be a pleasant change to do some applied. Votes: 0

Speaking in front of a large crowd is not pleasant. Once it gets rolling, it's okay. But beforehand, it's murder. Votes: 0

Exposing something that's painful or raw or not so pleasant. That seems to be the dramatic motor of documentaries, exposure. Votes: 0

I'm not trying to be ridiculous or funny, but it was rather pleasant to find yourself in isolation, in solitary. Votes: 0

Smoke like a chimney, work like a horse, eat without thinking, go for a walk only in really pleasant company. Votes: 0

I view the experiences that I have had - both the tough ones and the pleasant ones - as gifts. Votes: 0

A pleasant traveling companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. Each day is the scholar of yesterday. Votes: 0

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book. Votes: 0

Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them... Votes: 0

You have no idea how pleasant it is not to have any future. It's like having a totally efficient contraceptive. Votes: 0

When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from. Votes: 0

It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so. Votes: 0

How good and how pleasant it would be before God and man, yeah to see the unification of all Africans. Votes: 0

The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things. Votes: 0

A Wasn’t just isn't. He just isn't present. But you… You ARE YOU! And, now isn't that pleasant! Votes: 0

To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it. Votes: 0

In an unpredictable and unpleasant world it was both unusual and very pleasant to hear what I wanted to hear. Votes: 0

We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant. Votes: 0

Few things are more pleasant than a village graced with a good church, a good priest and a good pub. Votes: 0

A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else. Votes: 0

Luxury bags make your life more pleasant, make you dream, give you confidence, and show your neighbors you are doing well. Votes: 0

Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has. Votes: 0

I've liked you better when Katsa's around," Giddon said. "She's so rotten to me that you seem positively pleasant in contrast. Votes: 0

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation. Votes: 0

There's nothing else as pleasant as being unpleasant when there's nothing else to do, and there's usually nothing else to do. Votes: 0

The hill pines were sighing, O'ercast and chill was the day; A mist in the valley lying Blotted the pleasant May. Votes: 0

Why should we break up Our snug and pleasant party? Time was made for slaves, But never for us so hearty. Votes: 0

It's always, you know, a pleasant exercise to imagine my own death because then I'm so happy when I can stop. Votes: 0

If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry. Votes: 0

Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed. Votes: 0

The morning is the best time, there are no people around. My pleasant disposition likes the world with nobody in it. Votes: 0

I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant. Votes: 0

I have had a life in which I have had to face every big fear, and it has not been pleasant. Votes: 0

Eating chocolate can have significant influences on mood, generally leading to an increase in pleasant feelings and a reduction in tension. Votes: 0

Enjoying the dream is more important than interpreting it. Therefore, don't work so hard that it stops being pleasant and exciting. Votes: 0

Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home. Votes: 0

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure. Votes: 0

You must be oh-so smart, or oh-so pleasant. For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant...and you may quote me. Votes: 0

Only in Heaven will everything be as beautiful as spring, as pleasant as autumn, and as full of love as summer. Votes: 0

This is not a pleasant route for many young people to consider. You have to be either hopelessly passionate, or very stupid. Votes: 0

It was pleasant to talk shop again; to use that elliptical, allusive speech that one uses only with another of one's trade. Votes: 0

Some things are hard to imagine. Can you conceive of excessive contentment, for example? Or an over pleasant evening? Too much happiness? Votes: 0

Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices. Votes: 0

This has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured. Votes: 0

The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream And greedily devour the treacherous bait. Votes: 0

A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent. Votes: 0

Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning. Votes: 0

She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories. Votes: 0

What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others. Votes: 0

It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you. Votes: 0

Those partial to drink were hiding faults and dishonesty. They were sloppy souls, even the ones with pleasant manners and fine noses. Votes: 0

I'm damned if I'm going to be eaten by a bear when I'm naked." "I'm sure it's a more pleasant experience dressed. Votes: 0

The question for me is whether we can keep Earth a safe, pleasant place for humankind and the ecosystems we rely on. Votes: 0

What’s the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant it’s over. Votes: 0

The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about. Votes: 0

Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go; while you may enjoy the flowers, you may not eat them. Votes: 0

Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself. Votes: 0

Gourmandism is an act of judgment, by which we prefer things which have a pleasant taste to those which lack this quality. Votes: 0

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come. Votes: 0

You know, you have to be an optimist, a pessimist, sarcastic and pleasant all at the same time to be a photographer. Votes: 0

If you know how to keep yourself pleasant within, irrespective of what is happening around you, Ultimate Liberation cannot be denied to you. Votes: 0

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages. Votes: 0

I don't apologize for being sexually adventurous. Why not? It was often fun. When it wasn't - I didn't continue what wasn't pleasant. Votes: 0

Jo's eyes sparkled, for it's always pleasant to be believed in; and a friend's praise is always sweeter than a dozen newspaper puffs. Votes: 0

For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant. Votes: 0

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. Votes: 0

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else. Votes: 0

No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back. Votes: 0

Don't equate the presence of God with a good mood or a pleasant temperament. God is near whether you are happy or not. Votes: 0

I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky. Votes: 0

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion. Votes: 0

More than a pleasant surprise, Danny Schmidt was no less than a revelation to me. And that's not a word I use lightly. Votes: 0

Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable. Votes: 0

It is the month of June, The month of leaves and roses, When pleasant sights salute the eyes And pleasant scents the noses. Votes: 0

If there was sadness in this creative world of mine, it was a pleasant sadness. If there were problems, they were humorous problems. Votes: 0

I have nothing to say about my childhood. It was a perfectly pleasant upbringing - it's not like it was unhappy or anything. Votes: 0

Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others. Votes: 0

With no pretensions of art, Viva Las Vegas, the new Elvis Presley vehicle, is about as pleasant and unimportant as a Banana Split. Votes: 0

God has given us speech in order that we may say pleasant things to our friends, and tell bitter truths to our enemies. Votes: 0

It's even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a holiday. Votes: 0

Be glad in the Lord and receive willingly from His Hand all that he designs for my holiness - both painful and pleasant. Votes: 0

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires. Votes: 0

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure. Votes: 0

A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death. Votes: 0

Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant. Votes: 0

We must all learn to hear what we do not like. The question is not, 'Is it pleasant?' but, 'Is it true?' Votes: 0

Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead. Votes: 0

To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it's good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things. Votes: 0

Too often we tell kids pleasant stories devoid of truth, and stories without truth are not good stories. Our audience deserves more from us. Votes: 0

Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is. Votes: 0

Oh England is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high, But England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I Votes: 0

A pleasant aperitif, as well as a good chaser for a short quick whiskey, as well again for a fine supper drink, is beer. Votes: 0

Climbing towards fame, recognition and popularity is very much pleasant; but all its sweetness does not count even for a day of going down. Votes: 0

Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man. Votes: 0

The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible. Votes: 0

The price we pay for our irresponsible explanatory urge is that we often spoil our most pleasant experiences by making good sense of them. Votes: 0

The thing that goes the farthest towards making life worth while, That costs the least, and does the most, is just a pleasant smile. Votes: 0

Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality. Votes: 0

Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality. Votes: 0

Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing Votes: 0

Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain. Votes: 0

As for opinions, if they're not pleasant they'd better be kept to yourself. I learned that early in life and forget it every day. Votes: 0

I got really excited about Beyoncé, but it was Beyoncé. I think I was more in awe of how pleasant she is. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is in the hard rockpile labour of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing comes in. Votes: 0

I have inherited my father's sense of humour about myself. It's a lot more pleasant to make fun of yourself than when someone else does. Votes: 0

If you are willing to bear serenely the trial of being displeasing to yourself, then you will be for Jesus a pleasant place of shelter. Votes: 0

[Happiness is] a ghost, it's a shadow. You can't really chase it. It's a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well. Votes: 0

And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I really never look at my health issues as 'Woe is me.' I've seen the reality of that. And it's not a pleasant thing. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another. Votes: 0

As the visit of one we love makes the whole day pleasant, so is it illumined and made fair by a brave and beautiful thought. Votes: 0

O it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please. Votes: 0

O, pleasant is the welcome kiss When day's dull round is o'er; And sweet the music of the step That meets us at the door. Votes: 0

If I tape an 11-hour day, guess which parts end up on air. Not the bits when I'm pleasant, but the parts when I'm obnoxious. Votes: 0

My home was in a pleasant place outside of Philadelphia. But I really lived, truly lived, somewhere else. I lived within the covers of books. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

As it is pleasant to see the sea from the land, so it is pleasant for him who has escaped from troubles to think of them. Votes: 0

You see, I get so much fun out of thinking that I don't want to destroy this pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick. Votes: 0

Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world; to see the stir Of the Great Babel, and not feel the crowd. Votes: 0

For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My past is not pleasant; I grew up in a very tough town, Waterbury, Connecticut. I grew up in New York, too, but Waterbury was tougher. Votes: 0

When you run into someone in NY it is usually a pleasant surprise. When you run into someone in LA you usually had a car accident. Votes: 0

When you have done the rashest thing in the world it is very pleasant to be told that no man of spirit could have acted otherwise. Votes: 0

Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay. Votes: 0

The midsummer sun shines but dim, The fields strive in vain to look gay; But when I am happy in Him December's as pleasant as May. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything that was pleasant to do. Votes: 0

Great sex is not a pleasant soak in the tub, with the scented candle burning. Great sex is more like a bomb exploding inside your right mind. Votes: 0

My days had a pleasant identicalness about them. I had always liked that: I liked routine. I liked being bored. I didn't want to but I did. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it's well worth while to make the game as pleasant as possible. Votes: 0

Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine. Votes: 0

Live your life as if you are ready to say goodbye to it at any moment, as if the time left for you were some pleasant surprise. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

No doubt the truth is hard to come by for those who do not like the sound of it - dreams and illusions are so much more pleasant. Votes: 0

I had a very pleasant three years at Yale. I must say I did take it seriously, and consequently it took me a while to get over it. Votes: 0

The main claim to fame, I think, of Bernie Sanders - who I've never met; I'm sure he's a pleasant guy - [is that] he's certainly not stupid. Votes: 0

Kissing Simon was pleasant. It was a gentle sort of pleasant, like lying in a hammock on a summer day with a book and a glass of lemonade Votes: 0

For no one, in our long decline, So dusty, spiteful and divided, Had quite such pleasant friends as mine, Or loved them half as much as I did. Votes: 0

So I find every pleasant spot In which we two were wont to meet, The field, the chamber, and the street, For all is dark where thou art not Votes: 0

I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound. Votes: 0

It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand. Votes: 0

Which of us?is to do the hard and dirty work for the restand for what pay? Who is to do the pleasant and clean work, and for what pay? Votes: 0

It is an unpleasant thing to go to bed without supper, it is a still less pleasant thing not to sup and not to know where one is to sleep. Votes: 0

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted. Votes: 0

Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many pleasant things it will do to you. Votes: 0

If death be the last thing I do, why, I pray the gods and heroes of my people that I try to do it as well as I have done more pleasant things. Votes: 0