Past labour's pleasant. [ Proverb ]

Pleasant hours fly fast. [ Proverb ]

Praise is always pleasant. [ Proverb ]

How pleasant is a life of peace. [ Udaijin ]

Trust no future, howe'er pleasant;
Let the dead past bury its dead.
Act, act in the living present;
Heart within, and God o'erhead! [ Longfellow ]

Trust no future, however pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead! [ Longfellow ]

A pleasant association of friends.

His fancy lost in pleasant dreams. [ Addison ]

Though stars in skies may disappear,
And angry tempests gather,
The happy hour may soon be near
That brings us pleasant weather. [ Burns ]

Bear the burden of the present,
Let the morrow bear its own;
If the morning sky be pleasant.
Why the coming night bemoan?

Holy strivings nerve and strengthen,
Long endurance wins the crown;
When the evening shadows lengthen,
Thou shalt lay the burden down. [ Thomas Mackellar ]

And there at Venice gave
His body to that pleasant country's earth,
And his pure soul unto his captain Christ,
Under whose colours he had fought so long. [ William Shakespeare ]

Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. [ John Ruskin ]

The love of praise
Fills life with fine amenities. Not all
Who live have pleasant tempers, and not all
The gift of gracious manners, or the love
Of nobler motive higher meed than praise. [ J. G. Holland ]

The remembrance of past labours is pleasant.

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us. [ William Shakespeare ]

Happy who in his verse can gently steer,
From grave to light, from pleasant to severe. [ John Dryden ]

Pleasant discourses make short day and night. [ Proverb ]

Virtue's paths are first rugged then pleasant. [ Proverb ]

Great God, I had rather be
A Pagan suckled in some creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn. [ Wordsworth ]

Little drops of water, little grains of sand,
Make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land.
Thus the little minutes, humble though they be,
Make the mighty ages of eternity. [ F. S. Osgood ]

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print;
A book's a book, although there's nothing in it. [ Byron ]

The pleasant books, that silently among
Our household treasures take familiar places,
And are to us as if a living tongue
Spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces! [ Longfellow ]

The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard,
Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice
Of one, who from the far-off hills proclaims
Tidings of good to Zion. [ Charles Lamb ]

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety. [ Bacon ]

If the pills were pleasant they would not want gilding. [ Proverb ]

It is pleasant to play the fool (i.e. relax) sometimes. [ Horace ]

Crosses, though they be not pleasant, yet are wholesome. [ Proverb ]

He says a thousand pleasant things - But never says Adieu. [ J. G. Saxe ]

Though it is pleasant weaving nets, it is wiser to make cages. [ Moore ]

Advice is like kissing: it costs nothing and is a pleasant thing to do. [ H. W. Shaw ]

In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind. [ Wordsworth ]

The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea I have a goodly heritage. [ Psalm xvi:6 ]

Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. [ Bible ]

Make the night night, and the day day, and you will have a pleasant time of it. [ Portuguese Proverb ]

Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more the heart of man. [ Plutarch ]

Lust yielded to is a pleasant madness, but it is a desperate madness when opposed. [ Bp. Hall ]

Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. [ Ecclesiates xi:7 ]

Sweet sleep fell upon his eyelids, unwakeful, most pleasant, the nearest like death. [ Homer ]

The pleasant books, that silently among our household treasures take familiar places. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble. [ Epictetus ]

Biography is the most universally pleasant, the most universally profitable, of all reading. [ Carlyle ]

Nothing really pleasant or unpleasant subsists by nature, but all things become so by habit. [ Epictetus ]

Very pleasant hast thou been unto me; thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women. [ Bible ]

We can but ill endure, among so many sad realities, to rob anticipation of its pleasant visions. [ Henry Giles ]

We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in pleasant garments as well? [ Chamfort ]

Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant, that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself. [ Izaak Walton ]

It is pleasant to enjoy good fortune with one's friends; but if any ill befall, a friend's kind eye beams comfort. [ Euripides ]

I regard them, as Charles the Emperor did Florence, that they are too pleasant to be looked upon except on holidays. [ Izaak Walton ]

The cultivation of friendship with the great is pleasant to the inexperienced, but he who has experienced it dreads it. [ Horace ]

Be generous, and pleasant-tempered, and forgiving; even as God scatters favors over thee, do thou scatter over the people. [ Saadi ]

We are all of us so hard-up nowadays that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

Love is swift, sincere, pious, pleasant, gentle, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, manly, and never seeking her own. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change. [ N. P. Willis ]

Cullen whispered in his last moments: I wish I had the power of writing or speaking, for then I would describe to you how pleasant a thing it is to die. [ Dr. Derby ]

Sustained and soothed by an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave like one that wraps the drapery of his couch about him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. [ Bryant ]

Resentment is, in every stage of the passion, painful, but it is not disagreeable, unless in excess; pity is always painful, yet always agreeable; vanity, on the contrary, is always pleasant, yet always disagreeable. [ Horne ]

Gifts of rings by lovers have always been common; but how pleasant when the husband can look to the past, to the present, to the future, with feelings of love, honor, and duty, and not as is often the case with repentance. [ Miss L. E. Landon ]

After the pleasure of possessing books there is hardly anything more pleasant than that of speaking of them, and of communicating to the public the innocent richness of thought which we have acquired by the culture of letters. [ Nodier ]

The gods and their tranquil abodes appear, which no winds disturb, nor clouds bedew with showers, nor does the white snow, hardened by frost, annoy them; the heaven, always pure, is without clouds, and smiles with pleasant light diffused. [ Lucretius ]

These studies are the food of youth and the consolation of old age; they adorn prosperity and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home and are no encumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats. [ Cicero ]

A jealous man is suspicious, evermore judging the worst; for if his wife be merry, he thinketh her immodest; if sober, sullen; if pleasant, unconstant; if she laugh, it is lewdly; if she look, it is lightly; yea, he is still casting beyond the moon, and watcheth as the crafty cat over the silly mouse. [ J. Bodenham ]

As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them, and which, if you do otherwise, emit what is unpleasant and noxious, so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable; a more intimate one would be unsatisfactory and unsafe. [ Landor ]

A wise man will select his books, for he would not wish to class them all under the sacred name of friends. Some can be accepted only as acquaintances. The best books of all kinds are taken to the heart, and cherished as his most precious possessions. Others to be chatted with for a time, to spend a few pleasant hours with, and laid aside, but not forgotten. [ Langford ]

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will be there to support you when all other resources are gone. It will be present to you when the energies of your body have fallen away from you. It will last you until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live. [ Trollope ]