History Quote by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Whoever did not live in the years neighboring 1789 does not know what the pleasure of living means. [Fr., Qui n'a pas vecu dans…

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Although we sometimes did without a few of life's necessities, we rarely lacked for its luxuries.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

People from my father's generation didn't have the luxury to be unhappy in their job.

— Dulquer Salmaan

What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.

— Charles Bukowski

A day lived without doing something good for others is a day not worth living.

— Mother Teresa

And all these people lived not by reason of any care they had for themselves, but by the love for them that was in…

— Leo Tolstoy

The great pleasure of life is doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.

— Walter Bagehot

We don't have any bad memories of the people of the United States.

— Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

No nice philosophical point has ever been so decisively resolved as this: that those who are not conceived do not miss the pleasure of…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

All the other pleasures of life seem to wear out, but the pleasure of helping others in distress never does.

— Julius Rosenwald

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

— George Bernard Shaw