After all, " Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off...
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L.m. Montgomery
Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
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Jane Austen
Some things are too good. They make everything else worthless.
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Mohsin Hamid
A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There is no pleasure that I haven't made myself sick on.
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Philip Seymour Hoffman
More Quotes By John Dryden
I am sore wounded but not slain I will lay me down and bleed a while And then rise up to fight again
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below.
Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves: who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
For you may palm upon us new for old: All, as they say, that glitters, is not gold.
