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Please all, and you will please none.

Please all, and you will please none.

Quote by Aesop about philosophy

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Quote by Aristotel about work, perfection, pleasure

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the...

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

Quote by Georges Bataille about pleasure, happiness

Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court.

Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court.

Quote by Michael Jackson about mind, day

Please send protection to Dr. Martin Luther King and the...

Please send protection to Dr. Martin Luther King and the civil rights marchers in Selma, Ala. Don't let him get killed.

Quote by Mahalia Jackson

Please God, give me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, courage to change what I can and the wisdom to distinguish these two things! RightWords translation

Quote by Mirel Brates about pray, astrology, change, things, courage, wisdom, god

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about pleasure, good, good luck

Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when...

Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

Quote by Alfred Hitchcock about film, pleasure, nightmare

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure,...

Quote by Samuel Johnson about flight, pleasure, hope, mind, objects, present, future, human imperfections, moment

The natural flights of the human mind are not from...

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about flight, pleasure, hope, mind, human imperfections

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving...

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

Quote by Dale Carnegie about pleasure, art, magic

I did not realize that mother nature took care of everything, that a pleasure will be replaced by a previous one, in the same way as, beside pleasure, another sorrow comes to replace the previous sorrow. The spheres of infinite

Quote by Leonida Neamtu about nature, sadness, pleasure, infinite, mother

Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening.

Quote by Maya Angelou about feelings, jealousy, circumstances, food, pleasure, life

No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en.

No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en.

Quote by William Shakespeare about philosophy, pleasure

The students who come to my class are very closely...

The students who come to my class are very closely related to all the evil girls who are very interested in their bodies and sex and pleasure.

Quote by Kathy Acker about pleasure, sex

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you...

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about pleasure, life, people

That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.

Quote by Douglas Adams about pleasure, life

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say...

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about pleasure, life, people

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the...

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.

Quote by Scott Adams about pleasure, people

Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, ...

Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about pleasure, affair

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