Pleasure Quotations | Page 4

Part of the joy and pleasure of English is its boundless creativity: I can describe a new machine as bicyclish, I can say that I'm vitamining myself to stave off a cold, I can complain that someone is the smilingest person I've ever seen, and I can decide, out of the blue, that 'fetch' is now the word I want to use to mean 'cool.'

Many men fail because they do not see the importance of being kind and courteous to the men under them. Kindness to everybody always pays for itself. And, besides, it is a pleasure to be kind.

Money is often a matter of chance or good fortune and is not the mark of a successful life. It is not the thing that brings a throb of pleasure or a thrill into my life. And I would not pose as a successful man if that were to be the measure.

I love coaching these guys. They are a great bunch and it's a pleasure to coach them.

I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't have deep feelings; their pleasure comes from what they know. . . . But this only emphasizes the difference between the artist and the scholar.

Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.

Revenge, we find, the abject pleasure of an abject mind.

This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason

The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.

Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.