“Moral crusade: Public activity undertaken by middle-aged men who are cheating on their wives or diddling little boys. Moral crusades are particularly popular among those seeking power for their own personal pleasure, politicians who can't think of anything useful to do with their mandates, and religious professionals suffering from a personal inability to communicate with their god.” ThinkingMenLittlesSufferingReligiousPleasureMoralBoysWifeMiddlePoliticianActivitySeekingCommunicateCheatingInabilityLittle BoysMandatesMiddle AgedCrusadesInability To Communicate Author:John Ralston Saul
“The essence of Toryism is enjoyment?but as far as communicating and establishing your creed are concernedtrya little pleasure. The way to keep up old customs is, to enjoy old customs; the way to be satisfied with the present state of things is, to enjoy that state of things.” WayLittlesStatesEnjoyPleasureEssenceCommunicateSatisfiedEnjoymentCustomsCreeds Author:Walter Bagehot
“A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.” MenMightJoyUniverseHeavenPleasureCommunicatePartnersDiscovering Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“After the pleasure of possessing books there is hardly anything more pleasant than that of speaking of them, and of communicating to the public the innocent richness of thought which we have acquired by the culture of letters.” BookCulturePleasureLettersCommunicateInnocentPleasantRichnessPossessing Author:Charles Nodier
“Books, we are told, propose to instruct or to amuse. Indeed! A true antithesis to knowledge, in this case, is not pleasure, but power. All that is literature seeks to communicate power; all that is not literature, to communicate knowledge.” BookLiteraturePleasureCasesCommunicateProposeAntithesis Author:Thomas de Quincey
“What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our pleasure we have more.” SocialPleasureGriefArgumentConnectionsCommunicateFavorsObservation Author:Sir Fulke Greville
“Poesy is a beauteous damsel, chaste, honourable, discreet, witty, retired, and who keeps herself within the limits of propriety. She is a friend of solitude; fountains entertain her, meadows console her, woods free her from ennui, flowers delight her; in short, she gives pleasure and instruction to all with whom she communicates.” GivingPleasureFlowerSolitudeLimitsDelightWittyCommunicateWoodsInstructionFountainRetiredMeadowsConsoleProprietyChasteEnnuiDiscreet Author:Miguel de Cervantes
“The delightful study of the Psalms has yielded me boundless profit and ever-growing pleasure; common gratitude constrains me to communicate to others a portion of the benefit, with the prayer that it may induce them to search further for themselves.” MayPrayerPleasureCommonStudyGrowingGratitudeBenefitsProfitCommunicatePortionsDelightfulBoundlessPsalmsConstrain Book:The Treasury of David: Spurgeon's Classic Work on the Psalms Source: The Treasury of David: Spurgeon's Classic Work on the Psalms