Pleasure Quotes - Page 26

• Flowers and fruit are never combined in one place: it is impossible that teeth and delicacies should exist simultaneously.

  Saib Tabrizi

  Flower, Teeth, Delicacy

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• Though painting borrows help indeed from colours... it has nothing more wide of its real aim or more remote from its intention than to make a show of colours... to raise a separate and flattering pleasure to the sense.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Real, Helping, Painting

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• The inferior creatures groan under your cruelties. You hunt them for your pleasure, and overwork them for your covetousness, and kill them for your gluttony, and set them to fight one with another till they die, and count it a sport and a pleasure to behold them worry one another.

  Tom Tryon

  Sports, Fighting, Worry

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• New York City is like the appetizer table at a Jewish wedding, loaded with salt and spice and cholesterol and flavor, with a waiter holding out pleasure in his right hand and indigestion in his left. If you've got the bucks, this burg has the bangs.

  Leonore Fleischer

  New York, Hands, Cities

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• Anger can serve a useful purpose if it is justified and directed appropriately. But when it's only a substitute for self-loathing and a justification for cruelty to others, the trigger in your brain can become horribly destructive and addicted to that emotion. It's like a tornado that blows away all of your pleasure and replaces it with emotional poison.

  G. Frank Lawlis

  Anger, Emotional, Blow

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• The goal in tasting wine is not to "find" the same aromas and flavors some other taster is describing. If you hone your own perceptual abilities and develop the vocabulary to articulate them, you'll not only derive more pleasure from the wine itself, but also stimulate better communication between you and the friends who are sharing the bottle.

  Marvin Shanken

  Communication, Wine, Vocabulary

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• In our most Puritan of society, gambling-like other pleasures-is either taxed, restricted to certain hours, or forbidden altogether. Yet the impulse to gamble remains an eternal aspect of the irrationality of man. It finds outlets in business, war, politics, in the formal overtures of the gambling casinos, and in the less ceremonious exchanges among individuals of differing opinions.

  Richard Arnold Epstein

  War, Men, Gambling

  "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, Preface To The First Edition, 1977.

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• The greatest pleasure in translating is precisely this feeling of spiritual closeness and spiritual merging with the translated author. Moreover this spiritual relation is different with every writer.

  Ventseslav Konstantinov

  Spiritual, Feelings, Different

  "From Bach to Kafka, or... about Temptation". Interview with Emil Bassat, Sofia News, May 30, 1984.

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• Outward, thanks to the knowledge of physical laws, man could subdue (or subjugate...) nature, but inwardly, he remained a slave to it. For, when all is said and done, at what is aiming all this display (or deployment) of activity, if not to realized outward profits, to provide material pleasure (or enjoyment). It is not the first time that men sell their birth right for a dish of lentils, and thus disown (or repudiate or deny) the best of thmeselves.

  African Spir

  Men, Law, Done

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 36), 1937.

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• The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures, since very few great ones, alas! are let on long leases.

  Richard Sharp

  Lying, Long, Secret

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• There is a haphazard sort of doing good, which is nothing but temperamental pleasure-seeking.

  Fanny Lewald

  Pleasure Seeking, Goodness, Doing Good

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• The writer's advantage, in some respects, over those whose expression lies in other fields, is in the privilege of a double - sometimes a triple - living. Pleasure multiplied in the mirrors of words, and pain siphoned off in words.

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Pain, Lying, Mirrors

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• I knew what it felt like to have no say in who you were as a sexual being. It didn't just strip away your dignity. It stripped away everything you were: your identity, your self-respect, your pleasure. Because it was all about the pleasure of the other person take, take, taking whatever they wanted from you, even if it was uncomfortable, or caused you pain. Even if you died from it, the other person still wouldn't care, because it was all about them.

  Jess C Scott

  Pain, Self, Identity

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• For every pleasure, there must be a sacrifice.

  O.R. Melling

  Sacrifice

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• I don't think you should feel guilty about pleasure. Defeats the purpose.

  Lena Headey

  Thinking, Purpose, Defeat

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2013.

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• Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt.

  Horace

  Men, Profession, Every Man

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• Pleasure bought with pain does harm.

  Horace

  Pain, Doe, Harm

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• Dear Friends all, A thousand Christmas pleasures and blessings to you -- good resolutions and bright hopes for the New Year! Amen. People who can't be witty exert themselves to be pious or affectionate.

  George Eliot

  New Year, Witty, Blessing

  George Eliot (1898). “Works: George Eliot's life”

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• Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them?

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Bears, Fullness, Fatigue

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• Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Pain, Doors, Hands

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.66

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• As a man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are, so the sceptic, in a vain attempt to be wise beyond what is permitted to man, plunges into a darkness more deplorable, and a blindness more incurable than that of the common herd, whom he despises, and would fain instruct.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wise, Men, Darkness

  Charles Caleb Colton (1837). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words : Addressed to Those who Think”, p.97

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• Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Women, Flower, Sun

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.85

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• That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue.
  [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Offering, Rewards, Virtue

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• What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Pain, Absence

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• Even pleasure cloys without variety.

  Ovid

  Variety

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