Bottom Quote by Michel de Montaigne Download Open image “Pleasure itself is painful at the bottom.” — Michel de Montaigne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bottom Painful Pleasure
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain, the enjoying of something I am in great trouble for till I have it. — John Selden Copy Share Image
There's no way to explain, but all the pleasure is worth all the pain. — LeAnn Rimes Copy Share Image
Pleasure is hard to come by, but pain is everywhere these days, I must learn to subsist on it. — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Filmmaking, like sex, isn't a polite enterprise. It involves a lot of mess and the bottom line is, if somebody ain't screaming, you're not… — James Woods Copy Share Image
I was terrible student. I was capable, but I never like being told what to do, so I was always in the bottom class… — Chris Lilley Copy Share Image
The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I plead with my Moonlight fans to give this show a chance if they let me give it a chance. I can’t do Moonlight… — Alex O'Loughlin Copy Share Image
Well, the bottom line is that I'm extremely pleased with 'The Stupids.' I'm pleased that it's coming out, and it should look good. It's… — John Landis Copy Share Image
Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
I would have had a clause in my contract; I would've definitely put some fine print in my contract that said, "If the president… — Joe Budden Copy Share Image
Of course the Dharma-body of the Buddha was the hedge at the bottom of the garden. At the same time, and no less obviously,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
When I hit bottom, I can attack the problem and get to where I want to be. — Dennis Rodman Copy Share Image
If I had lost the popular vote but won the electoral college and in my first day as president the intelligence community came to… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The bottom line, in the professional level, no matter where you go, there's going to be competition. That's what it is. At the end… — Scott Tolzien Copy Share Image
