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the Week of Proper 7 / Ordinary 12
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Quotations regarding 'Pleasure'

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The joy of viewing land, the hope of in a few days ranging through the long wished-for spot and the pleasure of again resuming my wonted employment may be readily calculated.
David Douglas, Scottish Environmentalist
Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.
Rita Dove, American Poet (1952-  )
To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.
Arthur Conan Doyle, British Writer (1859-1930)
The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
Margaret Drabble, English Novelist (1939-  )
There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.
John Dryden, English Poet (1631-1700)
I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats.
John Dyer, -
Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?
Charles Eames, American Designer (1907-1978)
Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.
Maria Edgeworth, Irish Novelist (1767-1849)
One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Thomas A. Edison, American Inventor (1847-1931)
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Thomas A. Edison, American Inventor (1847-1931)
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
Albert Einstein, German Physicist (1879-1955)
Doing Tim's film is always going to be the most pleasure. Let me just put it that way. So, without drawing favorites one way or the other, getting back with him and doing Mars Attacks! was certainly a special treat.
Danny Elfman, American Musician (1953-  )
I just think it's fun to remind people that good television has exited and it can exist again and just to give them pleasure and enjoy it and make them laugh.
Jenna Elfman, American Actress (1971-  )
The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity.
Havelock Ellis, British Psychologist (1859-1939)
I think a lot of people have a misconception of what the kitchen is about, but you know the grueling part of it is also the pleasure of it. That's why I think you have to have a certain mentality to understand what that is and be able to handle it.
Todd English, American Celebrity (1960-  )
The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.
Joseph Epstein, American Writer (1937-  )
Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher (1466-1536)
The greatest pleasure of life is love.
Euripides, Greek Poet
You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well.
Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentinian Celebrity (1911-1995)
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.
Michael Faraday, English Scientist (1791-1867)
 
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