“Pleasant, berries in the time of harvest;
Also pleasant, wheat upon the stalk.
Pleasant the sun moving in the firmament;
Also pleasant the retaliators of outcries.”
Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), The Pleasant Things of Taliesin
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“There is no time like the pleasant.”
The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom (1905).
“And even the most pleasant of dreams could be painful under the light of the morning sun.”
Sins of the Father (1999
“Pleasant is it to the unhappy to speak, and to recall the sorrows of old time.”
Dulce loqui miseris veteresque reducere questus.
Source: Thebaid, Book V, Line 48 (tr. J. H. Mozley)
“I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy.”
Early Diary kept at Fruitlands, 1843. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/38049/38049-h/38049-h.htm
Life, Letters, and Journals. (1898)
“You are a cynical man, Mr. Pleasant."
"We live in cynical times, Miss Cain.”
Source: Death Bringer
(15th March 1823) Poetical Catalogue of Pictures. Hope, from a design by a Lady.
The London Literary Gazette, 1823
Sydney J. Harris, as quoted in The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations (1989) by Robert Andrews; also quoted as: "...a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure."
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