Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thou tremblest before anticipated ills, and still bemoanest what thou never losest.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

As we come to the Bible, we can come with the holy anticipation of actually meeting with God.

Chip Kidd

Antisappointment. Anticipation colliding head-on with the certainty of its own doom.

David Hume

Anticipation of pleasure is, in itself, a very considerable pleasure.

Daniel Kahneman

Often, the most enjoyable part of an activity is the anticipation.

Angela Carter

Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure.

Susan Mitchell

Perhaps it’s true, my happiest moments are the anticipation of other moments still to come.

Francis Bacon

Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life...

Iris Johansen

Anticipation makes pleasure more intense

Horace

He has won every vote who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and instructing the reader at the same time.

Virginia Woolf

For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.

William Congreve

Who pleases one against his will.

Voltaire

There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

William Feather

Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.

Samuel Johnson

The great source of pleasure is variety.

Robert Morgan

Part of the pleasure of being a writer is that you get to go to unexpected places. If a place sounds interesting, I like to go.

William Cowper

I never received a little pleasure from anything in my life; if I am pleased, it is in the extreme.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.