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Pleasure Quotes by Robert Burns
- Apropos, is not the Scotch phrase 'Auld Lang Syne' exceedingly expressive? I shall give you the verses on the other sheet. The words of 'Auld…
- Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed.
- Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
- Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring.
- Not the bee upon the blossom, In the pride o' sunny noon; Not the little sporting fairy, All beneath the simmer moon; Not the poet,…
- But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it's bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then…
More Pleasure Quotes
- The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. — Aristotle
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. — David Attenborough
- Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich,… — Margaret Atwood
- We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — Saint Augustine
- The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. — Jane Austen
- Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. — Jane Austen
- One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. — Jane Austen
- A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil… — Teresa of Avila
- To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. — Honore de Balzac