“Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.”
Jane Austen
“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.”
Chinese Proverbs
“God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.”
C.S. Lewis
“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world”
“Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty, (or libertinism.)”
Benjamin Franklin
“One of life's most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life's least appreciated pleasures in defecation.”
Mark Twain
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