The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
As a gathering place for the community, it is a pleasure to join in the excitement of this event. We look forward to providing people in the Omaha area their first opportunity to acquire this historic item, which we are all proud of.
For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don't have anybody to share it with. In part what the book club opens up is that people can read a book and then have someone else to talk about it with. Then they see that a book can lead to the pleasure of conversation, that the solitary act of reading can actually be a part of the path to communion and community.
Most pleasures, like flowers when gathered, die.
Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.
I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn't. And that's a tough place to be because you're never satisfied.
I am satisfied, I felt very well in spite of not having played on clay for a long time.
The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don't believe you get wiser because you get older. It's a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously.
Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
Pleasure is by no means an infallible guide, but it is the least fallible.
It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.
PLEASURE, n. The least hateful form of dejection.
Strong drink stupefies a man and makes it possible for him to forget it gives him an artificial cheeriness, an artificial excitement and the pleasure of this state is increased by the low level of civilization and the narrow empty life to which the.
LIFE is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. Peace is the interlude between two wars. You have no rose without a thorn the diligent picker will avoid the pricks and gather the flower. There is no bee without the sting cleverness consists in gathering the honey nevertheless.
Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.
I know I give people a lot of pleasure, ... I take them out of their lives. They have fun.
Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will Admit of an excuse envy alone wants both.
Certainly after the last four games against Ottawa there is misery but the majority of the year there was winning. Any time you're playing baseball, golf or hockey and you're winning, there is a lot of sense of satisfaction and enjoyment.
I don't even know the guy. Tell him he's an idiot. Somebody said he wanted a piece of me. Tell him I'm at 24 Willie Mays Plaza and he can come get me anytime he wants to -- with pleasure. Don't insult my family.
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