Quotes 241 till 260 of 334.
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The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.
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The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue.
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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.
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The mere brute pleasure of reading, the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
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The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
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The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.
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The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
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The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.
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The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.
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The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.
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The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
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