Pleasant Quotes - Page 13

• Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.

  Loretta Lynn

  Marriage, Real, Kids

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• Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

  James Madison

  Country, Journey, Medicine

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.36, University of Virginia Press

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• 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

  Funny, Laughter, Freedom

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• 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.

  John Stuart Mill

  Truth, Honesty, Men

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.172, Hackett Publishing

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• Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

  Spike Milligan

  Funny, Life, Happiness

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• I have nothing to say about my childhood. It was a perfectly pleasant upbringing - it's not like it was unhappy or anything.

  Graham Norton

  Childhood, Unhappy, Upbringing

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• A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.

  Ivor Novello

  Home, Giving, Cinema

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• The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

  Blaise Pascal

  Play, Forever, Earth

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• There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.

  Georges Pompidou

  Technology, Sisterhood, Gambling

  Sunday Telegraph 26 May 1968

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• President Obama hasn't been elected by the American people in order to be pleasant to Russia.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Order, People

  "Putin warns West on Syria". www.politico.com. September 4, 2013.

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• I'm not clean or even vaguely pleasant to be around in a domestic situation.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Clean, Situation

  "Daniel Radcliffe sorts laundry, scrubs toilet for interview" by Mandi Bierly, www.ew.com. November 21, 2011.

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• There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  May, Be Good

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• People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Views, People, Personality

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• Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others.

  David Rockefeller

  Add, Ability, Constructive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.

  Christina Rossetti

  Beauty, Eye, Vanity

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.160, Delphi Classics

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• There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives.

  Todd Rundgren

  Lying, Order, Everyday

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.

  George Santayana

  Wells, Can Do

  George Santayana (2002). “The Works of George Santayana: The letters of George Santayana. 1921-1927. Vol. 5. Book 3”, MIT Press

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• A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Broken Heart, Heartbreak, Men

  George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy”, p.237, The Floating Press

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• Cape Town's beaches are superb and while the water on the Atlantic side is damn cold, it's very pleasant on the other side. Bring your golf clubs if you play - Cape Town has some fabulous golf courses.

  Wilbur Smith

  Beach, Golf, Play

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• Deep walkability describes a city that is built in such a way that you can move from one area to another on foot, on bicycle, on transit and have an experience that remains a pleasant one, that you feel you are welcome not just in the neighborhood but moving between neighborhoods.

  Alex Steffen

  Moving, Cities, Feet

  "Alex Steffen on Carbon-Zero Cities". Interview with Theresa Riley, billmoyers.com. March 19, 2013.

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• One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

  Gertrude Stein

  Writing, Miracle, Doe

  "Paris France". Book by Gertrude Stein, 1940.

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• A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

  Simone Weil

  Dream, Real, Joy

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.53, Psychology Press

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• I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.

  Lawrence Welk

  Brother, Father, Farmers

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1971). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”, Prentice Hall Direct

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• 'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Life, Happiness, Smile

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Worth While”

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• A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent.

  Loretta Young

  Voice, Attractive, Appeals

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