#plea

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character. ↗

— George Santayana

#cannot #cast #character #common #common man

The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#convinced #far #first #first thing #man

Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#carries #carved #choice #hands #her

The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant. ↗

— Friedrich Schleiermacher

#called #confusion #entirely #first #good

We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past. ↗

— Heinrich Schliemann

#digging #imagine #lives #nothing #our

We have women working in the foundries, stripped to the waist, if you please, because of the heat. ↗

— Rose Schneiderman

#foundries #heat #please #stripped #waist

I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If something is pleasurable and exciting and rewarding, why should one stop? ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#exciting #hate #i #life #me

It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing. ↗

— James Schuyler

#enjoyed #interest #learn #pleasant #someone

Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#become #belief #concern #enough #often

No, I was pleased that it is possible for somebody who makes full disclosure as I've done, not only of the contributors, but also how the money is spent. ↗

— Bill Scott

#contributors #disclosure #done #full #how