Pleasure

wally — Sat, 29 May 2010 19:20:00 +0000

>There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. ~
share this Pleasure saying Bertrand Russell

~ Pleasure’s couch is virtue’s grave. ~
share this Pleasure saying Augustine J Duganne

~ Men may scoff, and men may pray, but they pay every pleasure with a pain. ~
share this Pleasure saying William Henley

~ Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume. ~
share this Pleasure saying Jean de Boufflers

~ Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. ~
share this Pleasure saying Jane Austen

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wally — Thu, 20 May 2010 09:57:00 +0000

>Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man’s training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. – Thomas H. Huxley, 1825-1895

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. – John Locke, 1632-1704

I’m very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. ‘Don’t complain about growing old – many, many people do not have that privilege.’ – Earl Warren, 1891-1974

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. – Martin Luther King Jr., 1929-1968

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. – Bob Dylan, 1941-?

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers. – Leigh Hunt, 1784-1859

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Pleasure

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