#pleas

After Bush was elected in 2004 - please note that I didn't say 're-elected' - and I was walking around in my befuzzed state of confusion and low-grade depression, I set out more or systematically to read writers who'd grappled with that fundamental question of what America is, why it is the way it is. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#america #around #bush #confusion #depression

Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work. ↗

— Robert James Graves

#learn #original #pleasure #taste #well

There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know. ↗

— John Dryden

#being mad #know #mad #madmen #none

It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato. ↗

— Lewis Grizzard

#difficult #eating #homegrown #pleasant #think

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#leisure #liberal #liberal education #make #mind

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination. ↗

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#also #begin #dress #fantasies #imagination

No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor. ↗

— Benjamin Harrison

#extent #full #generous #government #labor

The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

#consists #does #mainly #making #nation

After some time, with my eyes closed, I began to enjoy this wonderful play of colors and forms, which it really was a pleasure to observe. Then I went to sleep and the next day I was fine. I felt quite fresh, like a newborn. ↗

— Albert Hofmann

#began #closed #colors #day #enjoy

God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is this any license to us to enslave any of our fellow-men, to kill any of our fellow-men whom we please and are able to destroy, and take possession of their estates? ↗

— Samuel Hopkins

#allow #any #destroy #enslave #estates