(247 quotes found)
“You are you. Now, isn't that pleasant?”
Dr. Seuss
“If we do not find anything pleasant, at least we shall find something new”
Voltaire
“Graze on my lips, and if those hills are dry, Stray lower where the pleasant fountains lie”
William Shakespeare
“The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.”
William Arthur Ward
“Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history”
Chamfort
“It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.”
Lewis Grizzard
“Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood”
“. . . he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was--a woman.”
Washington Irving
“A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones”
Wendell L. Willkie