Pleasant Quotes
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Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.
Charles Dickens
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Being somebody is better than not being somebody vis à vis what you want out of life. If you want to talk to interesting people and have them talk to you, and if you want enough money to live someplace pleasant and to go on trips and be able to help people you love, you simply have to be somebody.
Helen Gurley Brown
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You must know that when you 'hail' Mary, she immediately greets you! Don't think that she is one of those rude women of whom there are so many-on the contrary, she is utterly courteous and pleasant. If you greet her, she will answer you right away and converse with you!
Bernardino of Siena
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Women can instantly see through each other, and it's surprising how little they observe that's pleasant.
Wilson Mizner
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It's hard to look pleasant when anguish is present, and yet it is strictly worth while; Not all of your scowling and fussing and growling can show off your grit like a smile.
Walter Mason Camp
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I think one can achieve a very pleasant lifestyle by treating human beings, fellow human beings, very well.
Rene Rivkin
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Gratitude is a very pleasant sensation, both for those who feel and to those who excite it. No one who confers a favor can say with truth that they 'want no thanks.' They always do.
Eliza Leslie
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“He who endures distress, will be granted joys; and he who bears with unpleasant things, will not be deprived of the pleasant.”
Nilus of Sinai
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Take the wonder drug that cures all your ills, take Jeremiah Peabody's polyunsaturated, quick dissolving, fast acting, pleasant tasting, green and purple pills.
Ray Stevens
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We talked filth for a pleasant half hour.
William Boyd
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You dramatically increase your value to others if you always maintain a calm and pleasant manner.
Daniel Lapin
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My main interest... is the love of truth, whether pleasant or not. Truth is self-sufficient, and there is nothing to which it can be subordinated without loss. When truth is made subservient to anything else, however great (say religion), it becomes impure and sordid.
George Sarton
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I am not generally regarded as a pleasant or socially minded fellow.
Caryl Chessman
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Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.
Thomas Carlyle
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No good thing is pleasant without friends to share it.
Seneca the Younger
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Gourmandism is an act of judgment, by which we prefer things which have a pleasant taste to those which lack this quality.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.
David Bowie
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I'm not digging tunnels, I'm not building buildings. My work is not hard, my work is refreshing, my work is pleasant. The more the better. Lying around and getting no job is debilitating.
Morgan Freeman
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Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets.
Jimmy Buffett
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The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.
William Shakespeare
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[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.
Rex Stout
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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
Seneca the Younger
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Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas