Pleasant Quotes

• 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
  • Interesting
  • Enough
  • Helping

• Fresh October brings the pheasant, Then to gather nuts is pleasant.

  

  Sara Coleridge
  • October
  • Nuts
  • Pheasant

• 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
  • Wonder
  • Purple
  • Jeremiah

• “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
  • Bears
  • Joys
  • Distress

• As for opinions, if they're not pleasant they'd better be kept to yourself. I learned that early in life and forget it every day.

  

  Kate Langley Bosher
  • Opinion
  • Forget
  • Pleasant

• 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
  • Feels
  • Gratitude
  • Favors

• I think one can achieve a very pleasant lifestyle by treating human beings, fellow human beings, very well.

  

  Rene Rivkin
  • Thinking
  • Human
  • Lifestyle

• You dramatically increase your value to others if you always maintain a calm and pleasant manner.

  

  Daniel Lapin
  • Increase
  • Maintain
  • Dramatically

• Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Play
  • Hard
  • Pleasant

• 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
  • Anguish
  • Showing
  • Fussing

• We talked filth for a pleasant half hour.

  

  William Boyd
  • Hours
  • Half
  • Filth

• 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
  • Game
  • Pleasant
  • Battledore

• Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Reading
  • Pleasant
  • Biography

• I am not generally regarded as a pleasant or socially minded fellow.

  

  Caryl Chessman
  • Pleasant
  • Fellows

• 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
  • Work
  • Pleasant
  • Refreshing

• 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
  • Interest
  • Made
  • Self

• 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
  • Needs
  • Pleasant
  • Gone Pleasant

• 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
  • Quality
  • Judgment
  • Taste

• 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
  • Destination
  • Pursue
  • Honorable

• The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Instruments
  • Memorable
  • Plague

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

  

  Helen Keller
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Sad

• Oh, my dear, relations are like drugs, - useful sometimes, and even pleasant, if taken in small quantities and seldom, but dreadfully pernicious on the whole, and the truly wise avoid them.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Wise
  • Drugs
  • Relations

• No doubt the truth is hard to come by for those who do not like the sound of it - dreams and illusions are so much more pleasant.

  

  Anatoli Granovsky
  • Truth
  • Dreams
  • Illusions

• Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing
  • Happens
  • Careers

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