Seat Pleasant

Famous quotes containing the words seat and/or pleasant:

    If anything ail a man, so that he does not perform his functions, if he have a pain in his bowels even,—for that is the seat of sympathy,—he forthwith sets about reforming—the world.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
    Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8 B.C.)