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Pleasure quotes (26) No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth. Francis Bacon Category: Pleasure Ah that such sweet things should be fleet Such fleet things sweet! Algernon Charles Swinburne Category: Pleasure Put this restriction on your pleasures be cautious that they injure no being that lives. John Zimmerman Category: Pleasure Pleasure is the bait of sin. Plato Category: Pleasure One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. Jane Austen Category: Pleasure I walked a mile with Pleasure She chatted all the way But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow And neer word said she But oh the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me! Robert Browning Hamilton Category: Pleasure Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes the big ones don't really mean anything. Norman Lear Category: Pleasure Variety is the soul of pleasure. Aphra Behn Category: Pleasure Instead of solid accomplishments the man pursues pleasures and self-gratification. He will never achieve anything so long as he is surrounded by dissipating temptations. I Ching Category: Pleasure PLEASURE n. The least hateful form of dejection. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Pleasure That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. Henry David Thoreau Category: Pleasure I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do. Don Herold Category: Pleasure Rich the treasure Sweet the pleasure Sweet is pleasure after pain. John Dryden Category: Pleasure A man of pleasure is a man of pains. Edward Young Category: Pleasure Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. Dr. Samuel Johnson Category: Pleasure No profit grows where is no pleasure taen: In brief sir study what you most affect. William Shakespeare Category: Pleasure Let us have Wine and Women Mirth and Laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after. Lord George Gordon Byron Category: Pleasure The pleasure is momentary the position ridiculous and the expense damnable. Phillip Dormer Stanhope Category: Pleasure Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body they are increased by repetition approved by reflection And strengthened by enjoyment. Nathaniel Cotton Category: Pleasure One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work pleasure in its result and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community. Albert Einstein Category: Pleasure Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure when he is really selling himself to it. Benjamin Franklin Category: Pleasure Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex. Oscar Wilde Category: Pleasure Pleasures are like poppies spread You seize the flower its blossom is shed! Or like the snowfall in the river A moment white - then melts for ever. Robert Burns Category: Pleasure Consider pleasures as they depart not as they come. Aristotle Category: Pleasure I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure. John Davison Rockefeller Category: Pleasure I do not like to repeat successes I like to go on to other things. Walter Elias Disney Category: Pleasure |
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