Pleasant Things Quotes

• He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Twitter post from Jan 09, 2011

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• There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

  Muhammad Ali

  Retirement, Greatness, People

  Twitter post from Dec 11, 2009

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• Advice is like kissing: it costs nothing and is a pleasant thing to do.

  Josh Billings

  Inspirational, Kissing, Advice

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• Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Pleasure, Pleasant

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• Truth is not always a pleasant thing.

  George C. Scott

  Truth, Reality, Pleasant

  "Fictional character: General "Buck" Turgidson". "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", www.imdb.com. 1964.

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• Although wine when it is read somewhat lacks the savour of wine when it is drunk, wine remains a very pleasant thing both to read about and to chat about.

  William Blake

  Wine, Drunk, Savour

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• Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil. To be normal, to be at home in the world, with a prospect of power, usefulness, or success, the person must have that imaginative insight into other minds that underlies tact and savoir-faire, morality and beneficence. This insight involves sophistication, some understanding and sharing of the clandestine impulses of human nature. A simplicity that is merely the lack of this insight indicates a sort of defect.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Nature, Children, Home

  Charles Horton Cooley (1909). “Two Major Works: Social Organization. Human Nature and the Social Order”, Glencoe, Ill., Free P

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• It's probably similar to being in New York City and having a cab driver behind you and you're driving too slow. It's not the most pleasant thing.

  Barry Sanders

  Football, New York, Cities

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• I believe a man is born first unto himself - for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted; some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood; then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Brother, Pain, Believe

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

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• Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.

  Lucy Larcom

  Adversity, Sunshine, Blessing

  Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

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• Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.

  Oscar Wilde

  Pay, Compliment, Pleasant

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.166, Wordsworth Editions

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• It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Lonely, Children, Heart

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Little Men”, p.41, Xist Publishing

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• Have you ever stood where a stream spills into a river? The two become one. They laugh over the stones together, twist through the sharp canyons together, plunge down the waterfalls together. It is the same when a man and woman love one another. It is not always a pleasant thing, but when it happens, a man has little to say about it. Women, like streams, can be smooth one minute and make a man feel like he’s swimming through white water the next.

  Catherine Anderson

  Swimming, Men, Two

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• Pleasant things to hear, though hearing them from him embarrasses me. I soak up the praise but feel obliged to disparage the gift. I believe that most people have some degree of talent for something--forms, colors, words, sounds. Talent lies around in us like kindling waiting for a match, but some people, just as gifted as others, are less lucky. Fate never drops a match on them. The times are wrong, or their health is poor, or their energy low, or their obligations too many. Something.

  Wallace Stegner

  Lying, Believe, Fate

  Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.50, Modern Library

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• The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

  Aristotle

  Men, Self, Cost

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1766, Princeton University Press

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• The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Tree, Way, Fruit

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.19

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• To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.

  Horace

  Men, Favour, Court

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• I wonder if that isn't the most sinful thing of all -- thinking all the pleasant things are wicked.

  Helen Nielsen

  Thinking, Wicked, Wonder

  Helen Nielsen (2012). “Detour to Death”, p.67, Prologue Books

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• Banquets are always pleasant things, consisting mostly, as they do, of eating and drinking; but the specially nice thing about a banquet is, that it comes when something's over, and there's nothing more to worry about, and to-morrow seems a long way off.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Nice, Drinking, Long

  Kenneth Grahame (2015). “The Reluctant Dragon”, p.25, Booklassic

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• Many pleasant things are better when they belong to someone else. When things belong to others, we enjoy them twice as much, without the risk of losing them, and with the pleasure of novelty.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Risk, Novelty, Losing

  "The Art of Worldly Wisdom". Book by Baltasar Gracián. Maxim 263, 1647.

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• God has given us speech in order that we may say pleasant things to our friends, and tell bitter truths to our enemies.

  Heinrich Heine

  Order, Enemy, May

  Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.88

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• When you gossip about another person, listeners unconsciously associate you with the characteristics you are describing, ultimately leading to those characteristics' being “transferred” to you. So, say positive and pleasant things about friends and colleagues, and you are seen as a nice person. In contrast, constantly complain about their failings, and people will unconsciously apply the negative traits and incompetence to you.

  Richard Wiseman

  Nice, Gossip, People

  Richard Wiseman (2009). “59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot”, p.58, Anchor

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• Repentance means a change of mind. Formerly, I thought sin as a pleasant thing, but now I have changed my mind about it. Formerly, I thought the world an attractive place, but now I know better. Formerly I regarded it miserable business to be a Christian, but now I think differently. Once I thought certain things delightful, now I think them vile. Once I thought other things utterly worthless, now I think them most precious. That is a change of mind, and that is repentance.

  Watchman Nee

  Christian, Mean, Thinking

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• Have you ever noticed that when people say it is their duty to tell you a certain thing you may prepare for something disagreeable? Why is it that they never seem to think it a duty to tell you the pleasant things they hear about you?

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Thinking, People, May

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2013). “The Anne of Green Gables Chronicles (Annotated Edition)”, p.351, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I'm always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Sorry, Joy, May

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “Anne of Green Gables”, p.19, Xist Publishing

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