Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality they are also dress rehearsals plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

It has never been and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair even though they both lead to the same destination.

My theory has always been that if we are to dream the flatteries of hope are as cheap and pleasanter than the gloom of despair.

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

Today's business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone's job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop.

I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here it is the end of happiness for a whole year.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

Get correct views of life and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly to do good and when summoned away to leave without regret.

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant but basically if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying our bills. We have kept our state in the black throughout the recent unpleasantness while cutting rather than raising taxes by practicing an old tribal ritual - we spend less money than we take in.

The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don't like adolescents - even the good ones can be snarky and unpleasant. Combine the antipathy we feel toward the average teenager with the fear inspired by youth violence and you have a population that no one wants to deal with.

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have fear it.

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have fear it.

One of the pleasant duties of America's most famous announcers during the relatively short swing era of the big bands was to host late-night remotes from some of the most famous ballrooms throughout the country.

In this connection faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of very pleasant and agreeable feelings.

Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.

I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities.