Pleasant

Famous quotes containing the word pleasant:

    O happy harbour of the saints,
    O sweet and pleasant soil,
    In thee no sorrow may be found
    No grief, no care, no toil.
    Unknown. Jerusalem, My Happy Home (l. 5–8)

    To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
    Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8 B.C.)

    Hume’s doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not; that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under a hedge, and the duke rolling by in his chariot; the girl equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)