Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Robert Grosseteste

Exhort all your household often that all those who serve you shall know to serve God and you, faithfully and painstakingly, and for the will of God to prefer in all things to do your will and pleasure in all things that are not against God.

Geraldo Rivera

I am enduring. You can disagree with me.

Robert Gottlieb

Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure.

Gustav Mahler

Can this be endured at all? Won't people kill themselves afterwards?

Tennessee Williams

I must endure & endure & still endure.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?

Lindy Ruff

We're in no hurry to get them in the lineup to sacrifice their health. We're gonna work our way through this, and if we have to endure a little more pain we'll endure a little more pain.

John Schuerholz

You don't like to see that happen to any young player. But of all the people that we could have had to endure that, he would have been the best.

Moshe Dayan

I have the strength to endure it all.

William Shakespeare

Tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow; But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself

Carl Sagan

Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence to make them believable.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Observe, and in that observation there is neither the "observer" nor the "observed" - there is only observation taking place.

Ian Hacking

A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'.

Samuel Richardson

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

Henri Poincare

In one word, to draw the rule from experience, one must generalize; this is a necessity that imposes itself on the most circumspect observer.

David Dinkins

But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike.