Pleasant Quotes - Page 33

• It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman.

  Seneca the Younger

  Sometimes, Mental Illness, Madmen

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• I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!

  Pat Morita

  Writing, Details, Remember

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

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• There is (as I now find) no remorse for time long past, even for what may have mortified us or made us ashamed of ourselves when it was happening: there is a pleasant panoramic sense of what it all was and how it all had to be. Why, if we are not vain or snobbish, need we desire that it should have been different? The better things we missed may yet be enjoyed or attained by someone else somewhere: why isn't that just as good? And there is no regret, either, in the sense of wishing the past to return, or missing it: it is quite real enough as it is, there at its own date and place.

  George Santayana

  Regret, Real, Past

  "The Letters of George Santayana".

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• I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road.

  Adelaide Anne Procter

  Adelaide, May, Lord

  Adelaide Anne Procter (1862). “A Chaplet of Verses”, p.106

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• Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

  Epictetus

  Children, Play, Society

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• It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be, Like all the rest, a mockery.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Death, Creeds, Modest

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1845). “Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments”, p.8

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• When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.

  Hesiod

  Family, Brother, Literature

  Hesiod (1991). “My Brother's Killer”, p.63, University of Michigan Press

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• Very often when I am introduced to women, I think, What is she really like behind the disguise which she wears? And very often I discover that she is pleasant enough, and probably would expand and glow if she received enough affection.

  Robertson Davies

  Women, Thinking, Affection

  Robertson Davies (1986). “The papers of Samuel Marchbanks”, Viking, 1986

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• I have met charming people, lots who would be charming if they hadn't got a complex about the British and everyone has pleasant and cheerful manners and I like most of the American voices. On the other hand I don't believe they have any God and their hats are frightful. On balance I prefer the Arabs.

  Freya Stark

  Believe, Hands, Voice

  Freya Stark (1978). “Letters: New worlds for old, 1943-46”

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• It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we may admire him.

  John Barth

  May, Stones, Matter

  JOHN BARTH (1956). “THE FLOATING OPERA”

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• It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest.

  Heraclitus

  Evil, Disease, Hunger

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• A pleasant comedy, which paints the manners of the age, and exposes a faithful picture of nature, is a durable work, and is transmitted to the latest posterity. But a system, whether physical or metaphysical, commonly owes its success to its novelty; and is no sooner canvassed with impartiality than its weakness is discovered.

  David Hume

  Faithful, Age, Weakness

  David Hume (2016). “The History of England, vol. 1~6, Completed: Revision of Great Book”, p.2565, VM eBooks

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• While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story.

  Ann Beattie

  Humorous, Writing, Thinking

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• How pleasant it is to have money.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Money

  'Dipsychus' (1865) sc. 5

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• A pleasant letter I hold to be the pleasantest thing that this world has to give.

  Anthony Trollope

  Giving, World, Letters

  Anthony Trollope (1859). “The Bertrams: A Novel”, p.313

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• There is a feeling which persists in England that making a sandwich interesting, attractive, or in any way pleasant to eat is something sinful that only foreigners do.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Humorous, Interesting

  Douglas Adams (2009). “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”, p.52, Pan Macmillan

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• There are three reasons, . . . apart from scientific considerations, mankind needs to travel in space. The first . . . is garbage disposal; we need to transfer industrial processes into space so that the earth may remain a green and pleasant place for our grandchildren to live in. The second . . . to escape material impoverishment: the resources of this planet are finite, and we shall not forego forever the abundance of solar energy and minerals and living space that are spread out all around us. The third . . . our spiritual need for an open frontier.

  Freeman Dyson

  Spiritual, Moon, Grandchildren

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• Awards are always a pleasant surprise. They are the candy-floss parts of our job - a lovely added extra to attract people's attention. The bottom line is that you want to sell tickets.

  Sophie Thompson

  Jobs, Awards, People

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• There is more to life than just existing and having a pleasant time.

  Friedrich Schiller

  More To Life

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• It's pleasant to hear these nice words while I'm still alive. I'd rather have the taffy than the epitaphy.

  Chauncey Depew

  Nice, Taffy, Alive

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• I love a ballad but even too well if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed and sung lamentably.

  William Shakespeare

  Matter, Ballads, Doleful

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1805). “Taming of the shrew. Winter's tale. Comedy of errors”, p.267

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• The way to heaven is too steep, too narrow for men to dance in and keep revel rout. No way is large or smooth enough for capering rousters, for jumping, skipping, dancing dames but that broad, beaten, pleasant road that leads to hell. The gate of heaven is too narrow for whole rounds, whole troops of dancers to march in together.

  William Prynne

  Dance, Men, Jumping

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• Occasionally, you will be given the chance to be either intellectual or pleasant. Leave being intellectual to others.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Intellectual, Chance

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• When we dare to doubt what we are told and take a fresh look at what's going on, we are in for lots of pleasant and fascinating and useful surprises. A new and more satisfying way of life begins to open up, just by noticing what we see.

  Douglas Harding

  Doubt, Looks, Way

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• Is it not easy to conceive the World in your Mind? To think the Heavens fair? The Sun Glorious? The Earth fruitful? The Air Pleasant? The Sea Profitable? And the Giver bountiful? Yet these are the things which it is difficult to retain. For could we always be sensible of their use and value, we should be always delighted with their wealth and glory.

  Thomas Traherne

  Thinking, Air, Sea

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

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