The fine wine leaves you with something pleasant; the ordinary wine just leaves.

-Amerine, Maynard Andrew
Quoted in Clifton Fadiman The New Joy of Wine (1990).

The lines arefallenuntomeinpleasant places; yea,Ihave a goodly heritage.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms16:6.

   How fair and how pleasant art thou,O love, for delights!

-Bible (Old Testament)
Song of Solomon 7:6.

Here is a pleasant situation, and yet nothing pleasant to be seen. Here is a harbour without ships, a port without trade, a fishery without nets, a people without business; and, that which is worse than all, they do not seem to desire business, much less do they understand it.

-Defoe, Daniel
^7  Of Kirkcudbright, Scotland.  A  Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain, letter12.

To be a King and towear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.

-Elizabeth I
  Address to parliament. Quoted in G R Elton Renaissance and Reformation1300^1648 (2nd edn,1968), p.134.

I've an irritating chuckle, I've a celebrated sneer, I've an entertaining snigger, I've a fascinating leer. To everybody's prejudice I know a thing or two; I can tell a woman's age in half a minuteöand I do. But although I try to make myself as pleasant as I can, Yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)
  Gama's song, Princess Ida, act1.

Difficilis facilis, iucundus acerbus es idem: Nec tecum possum vivere nec sine te. Difficult or easy, pleasant or bitter, you are the same: I cannot live with youöor without you.

-Martial full name MarcusValerius Martialis
Epigrams, bk.12, no.46.

Laughter ispleasant, butthe exertion istoomuchfor me.

-Peacock,Thomas Love
  NightmareAbbey, ch.5.

Which of us†is to do the hard and dirty work for the restöand for what pay? Who is to do the pleasant and clean work, and for what pay?

-Ruskin,John
  Sesame and Lilies,'Of Kings' Treasures'.

How lovely is thy dwelling-place O Lord of hosts, to me! The tabernacles of thy grace how pleasant, Lord, they be!

-Scottish Metrical Psalms
  Psalm 84:1.