Pleasure Quotes

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The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be. — Lillian Hellman
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man,… — Ben Jonson
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor. — Moliere
Human beings are of two classes: those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and those whose work and pleasure are one. — Winston Churchill
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow in April, but… — Nikola Tesla
Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure. — Unknown Author
I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the… — Oscar Wilde
So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments. — Seneca the Younger
Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh without any fixed… — Samuel Johnson
The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural philosophy, mathematical and… — Thomas Paine
The real value of science is in the getting, and those who have tasted the pleasure of discovery alone know what science is. A problem… — Frederick Soddy
Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not know its cause,… — Thomas Aquinas
A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth. — Edgar Allan Poe
To be born, to live and to die is merely to change forms... And what does one form matter any more than another?... Each form… — John Dewey
Twelve Priceless Qualities of Success: 1. The value of time. 2. The success of perseverance. 3. The pleasure of working. 4. The dignity of simplicity.… — Marshall Field
I also ask you my friends not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and allow me time for philosophical speculations, my… — Johannes Kepler
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. — Agnes Repplier
A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinks like a philosopher… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
There is room in the halls of pleasure for a large and lordly train, but one by one we must all file on through the… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
There is a pleasure that is born of pain. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Sweet is pleasure after pain. — John Dryden
Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow,… — Charles Caleb Colton
Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow. — Charles Caleb Colton

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