722 Pleasure Quotes for You to Enjoy

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness. Charles Darwin

Science Progress Long Every Evidence Pleasure Some Facts Takes Supported Highly False Proving Salutary Often Endure Little Views Harm

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration. DeWitt Clinton

Knowledge Wealth Space Power Frame Unlimited Pleasure Indefinite Vanity Shadow Perennial Ecstatic Duration Pageant Enjoyment

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy. Jean Racine

Sad Death Sadness Enough Pleasure Majestic Tragedy Blood Filled Need

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue. John Henry Newman

Selfish Reward Will Own Virtue Pleasure Religious Only Never Highest Because Cultivate Sake Truest Gain Brings

I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse. Leonard Cohen

Life Depression Anxiety Speak Sense Nothing Background Pleasure Collapse Entire Entire Life Anguish Well Clinical Goes Your Strategies

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. Maxim Gorky

Life Work Joy Life Is A Duty Pleasure Slavery

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly. Pierre Bonnard

Art Pleasure Draw Strongly Your Paint Express

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. Samuel Johnson

Hope Future Natural Losing Mind Before Satisfied Pleasure Immediately Objects Schemes Never Felicity Always Itself Human Breaking Human Mind Flights Moment Away Present Present Moment

Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it. Thomas Harris

Savage Problem Pleasure Hunting Solving Born Problem-Solving

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. Ambrose Bierce

Pleasure Weak Temptation Himself Denying Yields Person Who

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure. John D. Rockefeller

Life Nothing Think Pleasurable Pleasure Devoted Than Less

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. Mary Wilson Little

Nothing Pleasure Having Doing Lots Fun

I just don't want anyone messing around with my pure smoking pleasure. Max Cannon

Smoking Pure Pleasure Messing Around Just Want Anyone

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery. Rene Descartes

Hope Me Judge Will Others Pleasure Those Kindly Posterity Only Also Judge Me Leave Discovery Intentionally Which Explained Things

Exhort all your household often that all those who serve you shall know to serve God and you, faithfully and painstakingly, and for the will of God to prefer in all things to do your will and pleasure in all things that are not against God. Robert Grosseteste

God You Will Pleasure Those All Things Shall Know Household Faithfully Often Against Prefer Your Who Serve Things

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. Thomas A. Edison

Success Work World Reward Pleasure Find Calls Greatest Greatest Pleasure Precedes

Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare. Alfred Hitchcock

Wake Up Pleasure Give Wake Up Same Them Nightmare

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. Benjamin Franklin

Family Too Mark Indeed Broader Pleasure He Observe Sorrow Does While Them Then Stand Large Stands Large Family Lives Raises

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause. Bertrand Russell

Work Demanding Pleasure Some Open Develop He Exercise Without His Provided Get Anyone Skill Who Specialised Satisfaction Applause Universal

Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy. Giacomo Casanova

Love Love Is Sometimes Other Pleasure Kind Immortal Lies Arises Mere Does Real Inevitably Real Love Goes After Sensual Stale Fantasy

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