Pleasant Quotes
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I have come to the conclusion that life in the Antarctic Regions can be very pleasant.
Robert Falcon Scott
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In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and things painful and disgusting to some are pleasant and attractive to others.
Aristotle
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I have had a life in which I have had to face every big fear, and it has not been pleasant.
Gloria Estefan
Miami Sound Machine
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Dear Mother, dear Mother, the Church is cold, But the Ale-house is healthy and pleasant and warm.
William Blake
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There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the expedient, and the pleasant, and their opposites, the base, the harmful, and the painful. Now in respect of all these the good man is likely to go right and the bad to go wrong, but especially in respect of pleasure; for pleasure is common to man with the lower animals, and also it is a concomitant of all the objects of choice, since both the noble and the expedient appear to us pleasant.
Aristotle
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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.
William Dampier
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Love is more pleasant once you get out of your twenties. It doesn't hurt all the time.
Andy Rooney
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Bitter your acts, bitter am I,
Kindness your deeds, kindness am I,
Pleasant and gentle, so you are,
Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker.
Rumi
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The thing that goes the farthest
towards making life worth while,
That costs the least, and does the most,
is just a pleasant smile.
Wilbur D. Nesbit
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To speak the truth is easy and pleasant.
Mikhail Bulgakov
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The trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people.
Willa Cather
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Being a cult figure in one's own lifetime I am afraid is not at all pleasant. However I do not find that it tends to puff one up: in my case at any rate it makes me feel extremely small and inadequate. But even the nose of a very modest idol cannot remain entirely untickled by the sweet smell of incense.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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After the pleasure of possessing books there is hardly anything more pleasant than that of speaking of them, and of communicating to the public the innocent richness of thought which we have acquired by the culture of letters.
Charles Nodier
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Tis pleasant purchasing our fellow-creatures; And all are to be sold, if you consider Their passions, and are dext'rous; some by features Are brought up, others by a warlike leader; Some by a place--as tend their years or natures; The most by ready cash--but all have prices, From crowns to kicks, according to their vices.
Lord Byron
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The question for me is whether we can keep Earth a safe, pleasant place for humankind and the ecosystems we rely on.
Kate Sheppard
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Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep
Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each,
Even to the meanest; yea, a boon to all
Where pity is, for pity makes the world
Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.
Edwin Arnold