Pleasant Things Quotes

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.

I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president.

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

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

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

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.

I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world, and to show in a vision something of the face of Ireland to any of my own people who would look where I bid them. I have therefore written down accurately and candidly much that I have heard and seen, and, except by way of commentary, nothing that I have merely imagined.

Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant.

Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

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.

I don't want to say that sanctions are ridiculous and that we couldn't care less; these are not pleasant things... We find little joy in that, but there are no painful sensations. We have lived through tougher times.

And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.