Pleasant Quotes

• I was terrified of getting the chemo. It's not pleasant. And the radiation is not pleasant.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Getting
  • Pleasant
  • Radiation

• Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Nothing
  • Pleasant
  • Green Grass

• What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Trying
  • Culture
  • Situation

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

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Life
  • Done
  • German

• Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Break
  • Pleasant
  • Right or Wrong

• I hate a messy kitchen and my more casual husband has come to recognize it's more pleasant for him to clean up after himself rather than deal with me hating a messy kitchen.

  

  Emily Yoffe
  • Hate
  • Husband
  • Kitchen

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

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Company
  • Really
  • Walk

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

  

  Aristotle
  • Friends
  • Easily
  • Old People

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

  

  Robert Falcon Scott
  • Life
  • Conclusion
  • Antarctic Regions

• 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
  • Rain
  • Fields
  • Showers

• 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
  • Human
  • Events
  • Delight

• 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
  • Pleasure
  • Choice
  • Noble

• 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
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Faces

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

  

  William Blake
  • Mother
  • Church
  • Pleasant

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

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Time
  • Love
  • Love Is

• 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.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Spirit
  • Pleasant
  • Acted

• 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
  • Deeds
  • Your
  • Acts

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

  

  Keith Morris Black Flag
  • Surprise
  • Pleasant
  • Revelations

• To speak the truth is easy and pleasant.

  

  Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Truth
  • Speak
  • Pleasant

• 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
  • Life
  • World
  • Strong

• 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
  • Feel
  • Sweet
  • Figure

• 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
  • Thing
  • Costs
  • Towards

• The trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people.

  

  Willa Cather
  • People
  • Tree
  • Social

• 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
  • Thought
  • Books
  • Communicating

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