Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diogenes

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

Daniel Defoe

Pleasure is a thief to business.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things.

Pablo Casals

Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

Jean Genet

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.

Baltasar Gracian

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.

Edmund Spenser

And painefull pleasure turnes to pleasing paine.

Aristotle

He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.

Noel Coward

There's sand in the porridge and sand in the bed, / And if this is pleasure we'd rather be dead.

Donna Leon

I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person.

Douglas Adams

...and the Universe, ... will explode later for your pleasure.

Anita Loos

Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.

Confucius

To learn and from time to time to apply what one has learned - isn't that a pleasure?

Amin Maalouf

All pleasures must be paid for, do not despise those that state their price.