#pleas

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#best #culture #habit #knowing #pleased

The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here. ↗

— Finley Peter Dunne

#because #better #here #looks #only

I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats. ↗

— John Dyer

#i #like #own #pleasure #pushed

One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

#anti-semitism #being #i #jew #pleasures

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. ↗

— Epictetus

#foolish #nature #pleasures #resist #slave

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

#about #also #certain #grueling #handle

When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on occasion, I would write something for my own pleasure or I would write notes and introductory remarks in the songbooks I put together. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#give #had #however #i #introductory

But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

#am #cannot #choose #close #concrete

I went up a straight crooked lane and, I said 'No thanks, yes if yer please. ↗

— Jack Finney

#i #lane #please #said #straight

It looks like business, and people are much pleased. ↗

— William Cameron Forbes

#like #looks #much #people #pleased