Quotes with pleasure-ground

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  • Francis Quarles I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.
    Francis Quarles
    British poet (1592 - 1644)
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  • Bob Richards I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.
    Bob Richards
    American athlete (1926 - )
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  • Audie Murphy I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air.
    Audie Murphy
    American soldier, actor and songwriter (1925 - 1971)
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  • Anne Stevenson I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Hilaire Belloc I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.
    Hilaire Belloc
    British Author (1870 - 1953)
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  • Alan Thicke If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor and songwriter (1947 - 2016)
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  • Alan Thicke If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor, songwriter, comedian, writer and television host (1947 - 2016)
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  • Dorothy L. Sayers If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.
    Dorothy L. Sayers
    British writer (1893 - 1957)
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  • Alice Duer Miller If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
    Alice Duer Miller
    American writer (1874 - 1942)
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  • Virginia Woolf If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Samuel Johnson If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Emile Zola If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.
    Emile Zola
    French writer (1840 - 1902)
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  • Abigail Van Buren If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
    Abigail Van Buren
    American advice columnist and radio show host (1918 - 2013)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Carl Hiaasen If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Sigmund Freud Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production - only to produce a race of bed-wetters!
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • R. H. Hutton In an age of unscrupulous and shameless book-making, it is a duty to give notice of the rubbish that cumbers the ground. There is no credit, no real power required for this task. It is the work of an intellectual scavenger, and far from being specially honorable.
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  • Honoré de Balzac In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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