| "Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives." »John Wilkins |
| "pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant." »Lucretius |
| "There is no time like the pleasant." »George Bergman |
| "The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here." »Finley Peter Dunne |
| "It is pleasant at times to play the madman." »Seneca |
| "Life is unbearable, but death is not so pleasant either." »Assyrian Proverb |
| "To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them." »Charles Buxton |
| "There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people." »Muhammad Ali |
| "Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire |
| "Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one." »Voltaire |
| "If hunger makes you irritable, better eat and be pleasant." »Sefer Hasidim |
| "Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." »Isaac Asimov |
| "If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." »Anne Bradstreet |
| "'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't." »George Gordon Byron |
| "The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us." »William Shakespeare |
| "Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire |
| "Enjoy things which are pleasant that is not the evil it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is." »Thomas Carlyle |
| "No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back." »Meg Cabot |
| "Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success." »Joyce |
| "Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood." »William Shakespeare |
| "Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator." »Johann von Goethe |
| "His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all." »J. R. R. Tolkien |
| "The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'." »Phillip Lopate |
| "Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but which all experience refutes." »John Stuart Mill |
| "The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires." »Dorothy Parker |
| "Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them." »H.L. Mencken |
| "People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant." »Helen Keller |
| "Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents." »John W. Gardner |
| "Trust no future, however pleasant Let the dead past bury its dead Act, - act in the living Present Heart within and God overhead." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| "Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others." »Baltasar Gracian |
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