Pleasant Quotes - Page 26

• Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it's well worth while to make the game as pleasant as possible.

  Dorothy Draper

  Sports, Food, Games

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• The snow has left the cottage top;
  The thatch moss grows in brighter green;
  And eaves in quick succession drop,
  Where grinning icicles have been,
  Pit-patting with a pleasant noise
  In tubs set by the cottage door;
  While duck and geese, with happy joys,
  Plunge in the yard pond brimming over.
  The sun peeps through the window pane:
  Which children mark with laughing eye,
  And in the wet street steal again
  To tell each other spring is night.

  John Clare

  Children, Spring, Eye

  John Clare (1827). “The Shepherd's Calendar: With Village Stories and Other Poems”, p.20

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• Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant king;
  Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring,
  Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing-
  Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!
  
  The palm and may make country houses gay,
  Lambs frisk and play, the shepherds pipe all day,
  And we hear aye birds tune this merry lay-
  Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!
  
  The fields breathe sweet, the daisies kiss our feet,
  Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit,
  In every street these tunes our ears do greet-
  Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!
  Spring, the sweet Spring!

  Thomas Nashe

  Country, Sweet, Kings

  'Summer's Last Will and Testament' (1600) Song

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• Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is pleasant.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Evil, Speech

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• To utter pleasant words without practicing them, is like a fine flower without fragrance.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Flower, Fine

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• Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.

  Alan Bradley

  Christmas, Holiday, Thinking

  Alan Bradley (2016). “The Flavia de Luce Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.1150, Delacorte Press

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• A pleasant traveling companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. Each day is the scholar of yesterday.

  Publilius Syrus

  Journey, Yesterday, Each Day

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• There are three levels of happiness: the pleasant life, the good life, and the meaningful life.

  Joel Garreau

  Meaningful, Good Life, Three

  Joel Garreau (2005). “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human”, p.260, Broadway Books

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• Truth is not always a pleasant thing.

  George C. Scott

  Truth, Reality, Truth Is

  "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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• Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit

  Epictetus

  Reality, Habit, All Things

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• The answer, usually, is no. Wisdom is a quality that defies easy definition but psychologists who study aging have found that some of its components - judgment, emotional regulation - do improve with age in most people, consciously or not. Of course there is a subset of people out there who are sitting in their rocking chairs, spewing hate, but my guess is that these people weren't very pleasant to begin with, ... The reality is that the data are fairly convincing that people as they get older become more positive and less self-absorbed.

  James W. Pennebaker

  Hate, Reality, Emotional

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• If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written characters of the absent friend.

  Heloise

  Memories, Regret, Character

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• You can't get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.

  Clarence Darrow

  Life, Mean, Important

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• Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

  Fawn M. Brodie

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  Los Angeles Times Home Magazine, February 20, 1977.

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• In all places where there is a Summer and a Winter, and where your Gardens of pleasure are sometimes clothed with their verdant garments, and bespangled with variety of Flowers, and at other times wholly dismantled of all these; here to recompense the loss of past pleasures, and to buoy up their hopes of another Spring, many have placed in their Gardens, Statues, and Figures of several Animals, and great variety of other curious pieces of Workmanship, that their walks might be pleasant at any time in those places of never dying pleasures.

  John Worlidge

  Summer, Hope, Art

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• If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasant waters for our old age.

  Freya Stark

  Inspirational, Funny, Faith

  Freya Stark (1974). “The Open Door, 1930-35”

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• Eating chocolate can have significant influences on mood, generally leading to an increase in pleasant feelings and a reduction in tension.

  Peter Rogers

  Feelings, Chocolate, Influence

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• It has been shown as proof positive that carefully prepared chocolate is as healthful a food as it is pleasant; that it is nourishing and easily digested... that it is above all helpful to people who must do a great deal of mental work.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Coffee, People, Chocolate

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2009). “The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy”, p.120, Vintage

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• The spirit of gratitude is always pleasant and satisfying because it carries with it a sense of helpfulness to others; it begets love and friendship, and engenders divine influence. Gratitude is said to be the memory of the heart.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Gratitude, Memories, Heart

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• But . . . I may as well say what I should not otherwise have said, that I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman’s mind to be more like my own than any other man’s living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Heart, Men, Mind

  Quoted in Denis Donoghue England, Their England (1988).

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• It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing

  James Schuyler

  Writing, Interest, Enjoyed

  James Schuyler (2004). “Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951-1991”

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• It is wonderful how attractive a gentle, pleasant manner is, and how much it wins hearts.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Heart, Winning, Wonderful

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “Introduction to the Devout Life”, p.244, Catholic Way Publishing

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• You have been used to take notice of the sayings of dying men — this is mine: That a life spent in the service of God, and communion with him, is the most comfortable and pleasant life that one can live in the present world.

  Matthew Henry

  Men, Dying, World

  "An exposition of the Old and New Testament".

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• It's important that Oasis are rude about everybody and that they get drunk...Fair enough. It's nice, isn't it? But it's nothing to do with me. They came to see us in Manchester and they were very pleasant boys. Very nice. I'd like to see that as a quote. Oasis are very nice boys.

  Damon Albarn

  Music, Nice, Boys

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• To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Things In Life, Creating

  "Luncheon of the Boating Party‎". Book by Susan Vreeland, 2007.

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