Great Pleasure Quotes
76 quotes by 74 authors
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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
— Walter Bagehot
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I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you,…
— Samuel Butler
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I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.
— Alex Trebek
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I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
— Edmund Burke
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Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.
— Samuel Johnson
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Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
— Margaret Fuller
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Steven Erikson is an extraordinary writer. I read Gardens of the Moon with great pleasure. And now that I have read it, I would be…
— Stephen R. Donaldson
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If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great.
— Gautama Buddha
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The very gradual reductions in my weight which I am able to show, may be interesting to many, and I have great pleasure in stating…
— William Banting
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The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd…
— Warren Buffett
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I have a horror of being self-indulgent and wasting time, and there is that risk in doing this kind of work. Are you totally deluded…
— Ben Fountain
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Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and in life,…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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I would be the unhappiest person imaginable, confronted daily with disastrous works crying out with errors, imprecision, carelessness, amateurishness. I avoided this punishment by destroying…
— Thomas Bernhard
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It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics
— Geraldo Rivera
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I was deeply impressed and moved by his masterful playing. He was highly polished, profound, subtle, and intense. He was extremely fluent in a great…
— Pete La Roca
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You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well.
— Juan Manuel Fangio
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According to how gifted we are, we are all given a large or small key to this treasury of wonders. I have been blessed with…
— Rosemary Wells
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It is always a great pleasure, and surprise, when you happen on just the perfect place in which to plant some special treasure.
— Margery Fish
Who Wrote These Great Pleasure Quotes
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