Pleasant Quotes

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

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.

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

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

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

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.

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.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.

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.

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

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

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 kind of scary sometimes, I've seen this a lot in Asia. Children are given music lessons, very intensively I might add and involving great technical expertise sometimes, but you can tell that they have been told only to play happy pleasant music.

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

Less Than Zero and American Psycho were both really different, so I was just like, Okay, he's just really doesn't have anything pleasant to say, you know? But I get it. I get at least why it's difficult and what he's really doing.

Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant experience of having to serve with her.

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

I will say that since our capture we have met with uniform kindness, and while in the penitentiary our relations with the officers have been cordially pleasant, and for their considerate and kind disposition we feel profoundly grateful.

'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.

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

A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.

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

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

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

The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.

Home wasn't a pleasant place to live, growing up.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply.

I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.