(1167 quotes found)
“There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.”
Mary Wilson Little
“Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex”
Oscar Wilde
“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.”
C.S. Lewis
“Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can feel action, sentiment, beauty in the cold marble; and yet it is true that I derive genuine pleasure from touching great works of art. As my finger tips trace line and curve, they discover the thought and emotion which the artist has portrayed.”
Helen Keller
“Who pleasure gives, Shall joy receive”
Benjamin Franklin
“There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.”
Bertrand Russell
“That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.”
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
Jane Austen
“Pleasure is the bait of sin”
Plato
