Their Pleasure Quotes
20 quotes by 18 authors
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I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't have deep feelings; their pleasure…
— Margaret Caroline Anderson
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Which, I wonder, brother reader, is the better lot, to die prosperous and famous, or poor and disappointed? To have, and to be forced to…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain
— Tertullian
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Adults tend to repress their pleasure. Sad to say, I think we become adults only through disappointment, grief, and lies. So of course gradually we…
— Jean Louis
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Well do I remember that dark hot little office in the hospital at Begumpett, with the necessary gleam of light coming in from under the…
— Ronald Ross
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We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we…
— Johannes Kepler
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I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I want to be…
— Alastair Campbell
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It may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.
— Winston Churchill
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The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.
— Michael Faraday
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I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.
— Barbara Kruger
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No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel-to see and touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas, to circle the…
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Ghastly," continued Marvin, "it all is. Absolutely ghastly. Just don't even talk about it. Look at this door," he said, stepping through it. The irony…
— Douglas Adams
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[L]iberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have…
— John Adams
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Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among…
— Seneca the Younger
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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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I remember obscure / Never a man to love others did not care about their life / lives of others today do not care about…
— Mak_786
Who Wrote These Their Pleasure Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 20 Their Pleasure Quotes as follows: