Pleasant Quotes - page 5

I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable. (Martha Graham)
People hate it when they're tickled because laughter is not pleasant, if it goes on too long. I think it's a desperate sort of convulsion in desperate circumstances, which helps a little. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes. View quote
John Stuart Mill
Very often when I am introduced to women, I think, "What is she really like behind the disguise which she wears?" And very often I discover that she is pleasant enough, and probably would expand and glow if she received enough affection. View quote
Robertson Davies
Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself. View quote
Izaak Walton
Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas. View quote
Charles Dickens
To the question what wine he found pleasant to drink, he replied, "That for which other people pay." View quote
Diogenes of Sinope
Azerbaijan unleashed the war, and was defeated in that war; Azerbaijan asked for truce (including from the Commander of Karabakh's forces) and later started to sob about the dire repercussions of that war. As if wars ever bring pleasant repercussions. And on top of that, Azerbaijan adopted conceited stance and started to make demands as if anywhere in the world defeated aggressors are ever allowed to make demands. View quote
Serzh Sargsyan
To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. View quote
Horace
As it fell upon a day in the merry month of May, sitting in a pleasant shade which a grove of myrtles made. View quote
Richard Barnfield
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful. (Norman Vincent Peale)
When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from. View quote
Oliver Herford
I sit at my table en grand seigneur, And when I have done, throw a crust to the poor; Not only the pleasure, one's self, of good living, But also the pleasure of now and then giving. So pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho! So pleasant it is to have money. View quote
Arthur Hugh Clough
Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done. View quote
Mark Twain
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure. View quote
Sydney J. Harris
In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out, and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth. View quote
John Milton
It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences. View quote
Nelson Mandela
All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder. View quote
Aldous Huxley
O Life! how pleasant is thy morning, Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning! Cold-pausing Caution's lesson scorning, We frisk away, Like schoolboys at th' expected warning, To joy and play. View quote
Robert Burns
It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day. View quote
Larry Wall
Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and then are swallowed up; I forget them almost immediately. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the "beautiful" is something pleasant to apprehend. View quote
Thomas Aquinas
The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness. View quote
Vincent Massey
Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many pleasant things it will do to you. View quote
Aldo Leopold