Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Bowen

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

Jan Eliasson

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

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.

Alan Bennett

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

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.

David Brooks

Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure

Baltasar Gracian

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.

Diana Vreeland

Pleasure is everything.

Edmund Spenser

And painefull pleasure turnes to pleasing paine.

Billy Collins

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

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

Arthur Adamov

Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.

William Cowper

There is a pleasure in poetic painsWhich only poets know.

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.

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.

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

Douglas Adams

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

Anita Loos

Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.

Amin Maalouf

All pleasures must be paid for, do not despise those that state their price.

Donna Leon

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

Andre Agassi

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

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.

Billy Graham

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

Noel Coward

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

C. S. Lewis

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

Dante Alighieri

It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.

Cullen Hightower

The gratification of a thoughtless pleasure soon evaporates; the pleasure of a gratifying thought never ends.

David Foster Wallace

Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.

Confucius

To learn and from time to time to apply what one has learned - isn't that a pleasure?