
“[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.”
Source: Fer-de-Lance
Source: City of Ashes
“[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.”
Source: Fer-de-Lance
“Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.”
Source: Pericles and Aspasia
“Nothing sweetens life like a pleasant disposition.”
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 111
General Quotes
“Here is the pleasant place,
And nothing wanted is, save She, alas!”
"Phoebus Arise".
Poems (1616)
The Killing Season, Episode one: The Prime Minister and his Loyal Deputy (2006–09)
1850s, Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society (1859)
Context: I suppose, however, I shall not be mistaken, in assuming as a fact, that the people of Wisconsin prefer free labor, with its natural companion, education. This leads to the further reflection, that no other human occupation opens so wide a field for the profitable and agreeable combination of labor with cultivated thought, as agriculture. I know of nothing so pleasant to the mind, as the discovery of anything which is at once new and valuable — nothing which so lightens and sweetens toil, as the hopeful pursuit of such discovery. And how vast, and how varied a field is agriculture, for such discovery. The mind, already trained to thought, in the country school, or higher school, cannot fail to find there an exhaustless source of profitable enjoyment.
“Even here, nothing ever happens; and nothing ever happens to it.”
1949 - 1958, Speech to the Penguins' (1949)
“There's nothing I can't live with. Only things I won't live without.”
Source: Shadowfever