Aversion Quote by Maria Edgeworth Download Open image “Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.” — Maria Edgeworth ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aversion Business Pleasure
Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind, the aggregate nature of man more continuously, and more deeply. But it… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind ... more deeply. But it does not look as if it did. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible. — William Feather Copy Share Image
“He was dominated by the carelessness of happiness, by the high indifference of joy.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Pleasure is the business of the young, business the pleasure of the old. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other,… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Books only spoil the originality of genius. Very well for those who can't think for themselves - But when one has made up one's… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
“I can but just recollect having been amused at the Theatres, and the Opera, and the Pantheon, and Ranelagh, and all those places, for… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties? — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One of the greatest inhibitions to the development of human potential is the aversion to effective practice. — Douglas B. Reeves Copy Share Image
In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We must each learn to feel comfortable in our own uniqueness by rising above the fear of being wrong and the aversion to being… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Most people have an aversion to risk, my college economics professor told me. Which means they have to be rewarded to take on that… — Michael Arrington Copy Share Image
Some people have a very strange idea that material success does not coincide harmoniously with self-realization, which is absurd. The aversion to material success,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Usually I just let my songs do the talking. As a matter of fact I have long had an aversion to celebrities endorsing politics,… — John Fogerty Copy Share Image
Once we're willing to confront our emotional suffering, we begin making choices based on attraction instead of aversion, love instead of fear. Where we… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion. I had left this… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
