Quotes with pleasant

  • Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised.
  • There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.
  • Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
  • To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
  • 't Is pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; I a book's a book, although there's nothing in't.
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  • George Bernard Shaw A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Lord George Byron 't Is pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; I a book's a book, although there's nothing in't.
    English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox '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.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • George Gordon Byron 'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.
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  • Lord George Byron 'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in it.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Simone Weil 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.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Oscar Wilde Ah, 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.
    Lady Windermere’s Fan (1893) First act
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Byron Nelson 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.
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  • William Shakespeare Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • George Ade Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant.
    George Ade
    American humorist, playwright (1866 - 1944)
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  • Richard Bandler Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.
    Richard Bandler
    American author and trainer (1950 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Bill Keller Everything is accessible to everyone all the time, and I think there are wondrous things to treasure with what the Internet has made available to journalists. But I think it's also had some effects that are less pleasant. It has chipped away at a sense of privacy and secrecy.
    Bill Keller
    American journalist (1949 - )
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  • James Baldwin 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.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Samuel Johnson 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
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Mark Twain Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Horace He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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