Quotes
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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows: he breathes but does not live.
~ a proverb
~ a proverb
The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
~ Frederick The Great
~ Frederick The Great
The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.
~ Marcel Achard
~ Marcel Achard
The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.
~ Ethel Barrymore
~ Ethel Barrymore
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.
~ C.S. Lewis
~ C.S. Lewis
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I do it for the joy it brings, cause I'm a joyful girl. 'Cause the world owes us nothing, we owe each other the world.”
~ Ani Difranco
(Hi Echo!)
~ Ani Difranco
(Hi Echo!)
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
~ Kahlil Gibran
~ Kahlil Gibran
Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.
~ Mark Twain
~ Mark Twain
Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
~ Ovid
(Really?)
~ Ovid
(Really?)
Woman wants monogamy;
Man delights in novelty.
Love is woman's moon and sun;
Man has other forms of fun. . .
With this the gist and sum of it,
What earthly good can come of it?
~ Dorothy Parker
Man delights in novelty.
Love is woman's moon and sun;
Man has other forms of fun. . .
With this the gist and sum of it,
What earthly good can come of it?
~ Dorothy Parker
I wish I could drink like a lady
I can take one or two at the most
Three and I'm under the table
Four and I'm under the host.
~ Dorothy Parker
I can take one or two at the most
Three and I'm under the table
Four and I'm under the host.
~ Dorothy Parker
Now I know the things I know,
And I do the things I do;
And if you do not like me so,
To hell, my love, with you!
~ Dorothy Parker
And I do the things I do;
And if you do not like me so,
To hell, my love, with you!
~ Dorothy Parker
Take care of the luxuries, and the necessities will take care of themselves.
~ Dorothy Parker
~ Dorothy Parker
It's a small apartment, I've barely enough room to lay my hat and a few friends.
~ Dorothy Parker
~ Dorothy Parker
