“ The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 1.6K
“ I play in the low eighties. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play. ”
- Joe E. Lewis- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. ”
- Jane Austen- Copy
- 332
“ When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. ”
- Maxim Gorky- Copy
- 2.8K
“ At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year. ”
- Thomas Tusser- Copy
- 1.3K
“ The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident. ”
- Charles Lamb- Copy
- 1.5K
“ I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time. ”
- Hilaire Belloc- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start when memory plays an old tune on the heart! ”
- Eliza Cook- Copy
- 474
“ No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; In brief, sir, study what you most affect. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression. ”
- Dr. Haim Ginott- Copy
- 870
“ Variety's the source of joy below,From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow,In books and love the mind one end pursues,And only change the expiring flames renews. ”
- John Gay- Copy
- 2.8K
“ No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting. ”
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu- Copy
- 662
“ Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. ”
- Charles Baudelaire- Copy
- 2.1K
“ To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make. ”
- Truman Capote- Copy
- 3.4K
“ It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at each stage they've said, "Don't play like me, play like you.". ”
- Eric Clapton- Copy
- 2.6K
“ A wise man struggling with adversity is said by some heathen writer to be a spectacle on which the gods might look down with pleasure. ”
- Sydney Smith- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety.". ”
- Francis Quarles- Copy
- 2.6K
“ While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 3.7K
“ There is a pleasure sure In being mad which none but madmen know. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
- 2.9K
“ The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
- 1.2K
“ When our old Pleasures die,Some new One still is nigh;Oh! fair Variety! ”
- Nicholas Rowe- Copy
- 3.4K
“ The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class. ”
- Paul Fussell- Copy
- 1.9K
“ There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
- 490
“ The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. - Michael Faraday. ”
- Michael Faraday- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Don't play for safety — it's the most dangerous thing in the world. ”
- Sir Hugh Walpole- Copy
- 1.9K
“ In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple. ”
- J. M. Synge- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, and to work, and to play, and to look up at the stars and sun. ”
- Henry Van Dyke- Copy
- 3K
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