“ Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own. ”
- Doug Larson- Copy
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“ It's nice to see that look of alarm on the faces of the others. ”
- Graham Chapman- Copy
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“ Under certain circumstances, there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. ”
- Henry James- Copy
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“ Wine is one of the agreeable and essential ingredients of life. ”
- Julia Child- Copy
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“ This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
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“ A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly gratifying. ”
- Jonathan Swift- Copy
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“ In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route. ”
- Charles Eames- Copy
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“ My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying… ”
- Helen Hayes- Copy
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“ Years ago my mother said to me, 'In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.' For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. ”
- Mary Chase- Copy
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“ It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life. ”
- Epicurus- Copy
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“ The manners of mankind do not differ so widely as our voyage writers would make us believe. Perhaps it would be more entertaining to add a few surprising customs of my own invention, but nothing seems to me so agreeable as truth. ”
- Mary Montagu- Copy
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“ This is a pleasant surprise, Archie. I would not have believed it. That of course is the advantage of being a pessimist; a pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant. ”
- Nero Wolfe- Copy
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“ Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. ”
- Isaac Asimov- Copy
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“ The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'. ”
- Phillip Lopate- Copy
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“ Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you. ”
- Kin Hubbard- Copy
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“ If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. ”
- Anne Bradstreet- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others. ”
- Baltasar Gracian- Copy
- 3K
“ It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 3.1K
“ The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant — and let the air out of their tires. ”
- Dorothy Parker- Copy
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