Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Adamov

Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.

This really is a pleasure, and I thank all of you.

David Brooks

Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure

Agnes Repplier

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

Juvenal

Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.

Juvenal

Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.

Baltasar Gracian

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.

Diana Vreeland

Pleasure is everything.

Charles Lamb

There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Charles Baudelaire

I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.

Pleasure is more distracting.... Pleasure tends to make you unconscious.

I am very proud to be here and to be with such a powerful group. This is my country's team. It's a pleasure being here.

Jan Eliasson

I have a masochistic pleasure to put in 14-hour days.

William Cowper

There is a pleasure in poetic painsWhich only poets know.

Billy Collins

...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source.

Edmund Spenser

And painefull pleasure turnes to pleasing paine.

Aristotle

He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.

Ben Hogan

The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.

Alan Alda

Whenever I think of how much pleasure I have interviewing scientists, I remember that they're having the real fun in actually being able to do the science.

Aristotle

The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.

Donna Leon

I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person.

Douglas Adams

...and the Universe, ... will explode later for your pleasure.

Ronde Barber

He turned it on. It was a pleasure watching him.

Horace

He has won every vote who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and instructing the reader at the same time.

Elizabeth Bowen

Spoilt pleasure is a sad, unseemly thing; you can only bury it.

Robert Morgan

Part of the pleasure of being a writer is that you get to go to unexpected places. If a place sounds interesting, I like to go.

Alan Bennett

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.

I'm so used to having them there. It's a pleasure.

Andre Agassi

I tell you what I do take pleasure in is accomplishing things that I question myself,

Billy Graham

We go on in our pleasures thinking they're going to last forever.

C. S. Lewis

I sometimes wonder if all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Noel Coward

There's sand in the porridge and sand in the bed, / And if this is pleasure we'd rather be dead.