Quotes 241 till 260 of 474.
-
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
-
One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
-
One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them.
The Player of Games (1988) 279 -
Our criteria is that it's okay to invest in companies so long as they stop lobbying in Washington, stop exploring for new hydrocarbons, and sit down with every one else to plan to keep 80 percent of the reserves in the ground.
-
Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.
-
Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.
-
Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.
-
Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.
-
Pain and pleasure, grief and joy, passions and sensations succeed each other, and never all exist at the same time.
A Treatise of Human Nature (1739) -
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
-
Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.
-
Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.
-
Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
-
People have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.
-
People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.
-
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
-
People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.
-
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
-
Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
All pleasure-ground famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 13)
