Best pleasure & would-be Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more

“I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it. Those who turn sad faces toward the world find only sadness reflected. But a smile is reflected in the same way, and cheers and brightens our hearts. You think there is no pleasure to be had in life. That is because you are heartsick and-and tired, as you say. With one sad story ended you are afraid to begin another-a sequel-feeling it would be equally sad. But why should it be? Isn't the joy or sorrow equally divided in life?”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of L. Frank Baum (Illustrated)

“Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas; since sometimes our pleasure would be none but for telling of it, and our grief insupportable but for participation.”

Sometimes Would Be Pain Pleasure Grief Share Conversation Silent Satisfaction Sympathy Participation Woe Diminish

Author:William Wycherley

“I thank heaven I have often had it in my power to give help and relief, and this is still my greatest pleasure. If I could choose my sphere of action now, it would be that of the most simple and direct efforts of this kind.”

Ifs Giving Kind Stills Helping Would Be Action Heaven Simple Pleasure Effort Direct Charity If I Could Relief Spheres Greatest Pleasures

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“I love Death because he breaks the human pattern and frees us from pleasures too prolonged as well as from the pains of this world. It is pleasant, too, to remember that Death lies in our hands; he must come if we call him. ... I think if there were no death, life would be more than flesh and blood could bear.”

Ifs Thinking World Humans Wells Hands Would Be Pain Remember Lying Pleasure Break Blood This World Bears Patterns Flesh Pleasant Life Death Flesh And Blood Love Death

Author:Stevie Smith

“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.”

Ifs Hands Would Be Pain Left Pleasure Doors Sensibility

Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“Buddha wrote a code which he said would be useful to guide men in darkness, but he never claimed to be the Light of the world. Buddhism was born with a disgust for the world, when a prince's son deserted his wife and child, turning from the pleasures of existence to the problems of existence. Burnt by the fires of the world, and already weary with it, Buddha turned to ethics.”

Men World Children Said Problem Light Would Be Born Pleasure Existence Darkness Fire Wife Son Buddhism Ethics Guides Code Disgusting Weary Deserted Guide Me Light Of The World

Book:Life of Christ

Source: Life of Christ

“... it would be impossible for women to stand in higher estimation than they do here. The deference that is paid to them at all times and in all places has often occasioned me as much surprise as pleasure.”

Would Be Pleasure Impossible Higher Paid Surprise All Time Estimation Deference

Book:Views of society and manners in America: in a series of letters from that country to a friend in England, during the years 1818, 1819, and 1820

Source: Views of society and manners in America: in a series of letters from that country to a friend in England, during the years 1818, 1819, and 1820

“Rice and peas fit into that category of dishes where two ordinary foods, combined together, ignite a pleasure far beyond the capacity of either of its parts alone. Like rhubarb and strawberries, apple pie and cheese, roast pork and sage, the two tastes and textures meld together into the sort of subtle transcendental oneness that we once fantasized would be our experience when we finally found the ideal mate.”

“If we have a decent sort of cat to begin with, and have always treated it courteously, and aren't cursed with meddling, bullying natures, it's a pleasure to let it do as it pleases. With children, this would be wicked and irresponsible, so raising children involves a lot of effort and friction. They need to be taught how to tie their shoes and multiply fractions, they need to be punished for pocketing candy in the grocery store, they need to be washed and combed and forced to clean up their rooms and say please and thank you. A cat is our relief and our reward.”

Source: Secrets of the Cat: It's [sic] Lore, Legend, and Lives

“What a pleasure life would be to live if everybody would try to do only half of what he expects others to do.”

Ifs Trying Would Be Pleasure Half Expectations

Author:William J. H. Boetcker

“If all our wishes were gratified, most of our pleasures would be destroyed.”

Ifs Would Be Wish Pleasure Destroyed

Book:Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

Source: Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

“To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest of your life. It would be to cheat yourself of the pleasures of life.”

Would Be Literature Pleasure Painting Theatre Cheat Rest Of Your Life Pleasures Of Life

Author:David McCullough

“If you were my queen, truly my queen, our court would be stronger still. If you were mine , without mortal distractions, we'd be safer. We'd be stronger if we were truly together. Summer is a time to rejoice in pleasures and heat. When I'm around you, I want to forget everything else. I love Donia. I always will, but when I'm near you--" He stopped himself.”

Ifs Want Stills Would Be Together Forget Pleasure Mines Summer Stronger Court Mortals Queens Heat Distraction Rejoice Forget Everything

Author:Melissa Marr

“Paper money is like dram-drinking, it relieves for a moment by deceitful sensation, but gradually diminishes the natural heat, and leaves the body worse than it found it. Were not this the case, and could money be made of paper at pleasure, every sovereign in Europe would be as rich as he pleased. But the truth is, that it is a bubble and the attempt vanity. Nature has provided the proper materials for money: gold and silver, and any attempt of ours to rival her is ridiculous.”

Source: The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: Secretary to the Committee of Foreign Affairs in the American Revolution : to which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life

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