Free pleasure sayings, quotes and quotations
Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.
~pleasure quotes by Blaise Pascal, Pensées
Boredom is a sickness the cure for which is work; pleasure is only a palliative.
~inspirational sayings about Boredom quotes by Le Duc de Lévis, Mémoires
Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse: envy alone wants both.
~pleasure quotes by Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
It is not known precisely where angels dwell - whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
~famous quotes about Angels by Voltaire
I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
~pleasure sayings by Voltaire
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.
~pleasure quotes by Kenko Yoshida
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
~inspirational sayings about Leisure quotes by Agnes Repplier
It is better to drink of deep griefs than to taste shallow pleasures.
~pleasure quotes by William Hazlitt, Characteristics, 1823
One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
~famous quotes about Letters by Lord Byron
In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
~pleasure sayings by Cicero
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music the words make.
~pleasure quotes by Truman Capote, McCall's, November 1967
Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.
~inspirational sayings about Bicycling quotes by John F. Kennedy
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind
~pleasure quotes by Jacques Martin Barzun
To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.
~famous quotes about Emotions by Francesco Guicciardini
I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a good rousing sneeze, one that tears open your collar and throws your hair into your eyes, is really one of life's sensational pleasures.
~pleasure sayings by Robert Benchley, Hiccoughing Makes Us Fat, No Poems: or around the world backwards and sideways, 193
God made the country, and man made the town.
~pleasure quotes by William Cowper, The Task
Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name
~good sayings about Patriotic by Woodrow Wilson
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
~pleasure quotes by George Jean Nathan, House of Satan
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.
~motivational quotes about Confidence sayings by E.F. Schumacher
God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me.
~pleasure sayings by Author Unknown
There are no physicists in the hottest parts of hell, because the existence of a 'hottest part' implies a temperature difference, and any marginally competent physicist would immediately use this to run a heat engine and make some other part of hell comfortably cool. This is obviously impossible.
~pleasure quotes by Richard Davisson
I always feel that I have two duties to perform with a parting guest: one, to see that he doesn't forget anything that is his; the other, to see that he doesn't take anything that is mine.
~good sayings about Guests by Alfred North Whitehead
Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.
~pleasure quotes by Bill Vaughn
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal
~motivational quotes about Memorial Day sayings by From a headstone in Ireland
Deeds, not creeds, are the true measure of a man.
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The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.
~pleasure quotes by Gustave Flaubert
We all love animals. Why do we call some pets and others dinner?
~good sayings about Vegetarianism by k.d. lang
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
~pleasure quotes by Ernest Benn
If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater... suggest that he wear a tail.
~motivational quotes about Dogs sayings by Fran Lebowitz
A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been.
~pleasure sayings by Hamilton Wright Mabie
A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sunEnjoy the trip
~pleasure quotes by Author Unknown
You know that our breathing is the inhaling and exhaling of air. The organ that serves for this is the lungs that lie round the heart, so that the air passing through them thereby envelops the heart. Thus breathing is a natural way to the heart. And so, having collected your mind within you, lead it into the channel of breathing through which air reaches the heart and, together with this inhaled air, force your mind to descend into the heart and to remain there.
~good sayings about Yoga by Nicephorus the Solitary
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
~pleasure quotes by Irvin S. Cobb
There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity
~motivational quotes about Adversity sayings by Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, 1820
Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
~pleasure sayings by Abraham Flexner, Universities, 1930
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