Quotes with pleasant

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  • Jerome K. Jerome It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • Kingsley Amis It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you.
    Kingsley Amis
    English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher (1922 - 1995)
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  • Isaac Asimov Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
    Isaac Asimov
    American writer (1920 - 1992)
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  • Bruce Babbitt No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience.
    Bruce Babbitt
    American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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  • Benjamin Harrison No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor.
    Benjamin Harrison
    American politician and lawyer (1833 - 1901)
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  • Francis Bacon Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Jane Harrison 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.
    Jane Harrison
    British classical scholar and linguist
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  • Virgil Perhaps one day this too will be pleasant to remember.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Lucretius 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.
    Lucretius
    Roman poet and philosopher (95 - 55)
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  • Lucretius Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
    Lucretius
    Roman poet and philosopher (95 - 55)
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  • Babe Didrikson Zaharias Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised.
    Babe Didrikson Zaharias
    American athlete (1911 - 1956)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Christina Rossetti 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.
    Christina Rossetti
    British poet (1830 - 1894)
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  • Ben Affleck Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Ben van Berkel That's what I love about Chicago... It is the staccato aspect of the skyscrapers. But the ground is very loose, very relaxed. It makes Chicago far more pleasant than other cities.
    Ben van Berkel
    Dutch architect
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  • Dorothy Parker The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • William Shakespeare The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices;
    Make instruments to plague us.
    King Lear 5, 3
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • John Stuart Mill The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Blaise Pascal 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.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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