#pleasures

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#cannot #drawings #imagination #models #only

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing. ↗

— Bernard Malamud

#pleasures #revision #writing

To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life. ↗

— David McCullough

#college #courses #english #go #had

Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others. ↗

— Dmitri Mendeleev

#leaves #long-lasting #mark #only #others

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#cause #consciousness #falsity #ignorance #inconstancy

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#book #chasing #doing #i #pleasures

Put this restriction on your pleasures, be cautious that they injure no being that lives. ↗

— John Zimmerman

#cautious #injure #lives #pleasures #put

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#feel #formerly #had #i #laugh

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself! ↗

— Confucius

#conceal #consider #employs #himself #his

After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#disdain #few #generous #having #pleasures