Even pleasure itself is a toil.
Manilius
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Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure.
MORTIMER ADLER Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
LIVY The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.
KINKY FRIEDMAN We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little...
SIGMUND FREUD The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The...
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MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH When we are born we die, our end is but the pendant of our beginning.
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BAUVARD Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either...
HERMAN MELVILLE To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still
OSCAR WILDE For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is
an impression of pleasure in itsel...
FRANCIS BACON Nothing is achieved without toil.
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DR. RUTH WESTHEIMER Greater even than the pious man is he who eats that which is the fruit of his own toil; for scriptur...
THE TALMUD To feel your arms around me...to feel your breath on my neck...is pleasure in itself. It is home.
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GUSTAVE FLAUBERT There's always a glamour of pain even in pleasure.
~ SHIVAM Pain Is Caused By Pleasure
SULLY ERNA The cook cares not a bit for toil, toil, if the fowl be plump and fat
HORACE Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, ...
MARY MCCARTHY Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
D. H. LAWRENCE Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd,
Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture...
ZANE GREY Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.
H. P. LOVECRAFT Success, remember is the reward of toil.
SOPHOCLES Mine is the horny hand of toil.
JOHN SINGER SARGENT What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, im...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Men spend their time in following a ball or a hare; it is the pleasure even of kings.
BLAISE PASCAL Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.
HESIOD A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a ...
MARK TWAIN There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
SOPHOCLES For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA Maybe there is no better novel in the world than Denton Welch's In Youth Is Pleasure. Just holding i...
JOHN WATERS Unrest of the spirit is a mark of life; one problem after another presents itself and in the solving...
KARL MENNINGER Light is the task where many share the toil.
HOMER Light is the task when many share the toil.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one w...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS Life is a risk.
CARMELO ANTHONY Luck is not chance - It's Toil - Fortune's expensive smile Is earned
EMILY DICKINSON Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
EMILY DICKINSON No living thing is ugly in this world. Even a tarantula considers itself beautiful
MUNIA KHAN I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of m...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of...
THOMAS JEFFERSON There is nothing useless in nature; not even uselessness itself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
PAT CONROY Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
POPE FRANCIS Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.
EMILY DICKINSON A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The giving of love is an education in itself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Because art is a scream, even when it hides itself somewhere, you will find it!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN If human pleasure did not have both a lid and a time limit, we would not bestir ourselves to do thin...
THOMAS LIGOTTI I find that the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
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KEVIN O'LEARY A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.
FRANCIS PICABIA If there are no gods,All our toil is without meaning.
EURIPIDES There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasur...
MARK TWAIN Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that s...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is
toil.
HENRY JACKSON VAN DYKE Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
MARGARET FULLER Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
MARGARET FULLER Honor lies in honest toil.
STEVEN GROVER CLEVELAND Honor lies in honest toil.
GROVER CLEVELAND Horny-handed sons of toil.
LORD SALISBURY We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.
MARCUS MANILIUS We are always beginning to live, but are never living
MARCUS MANILIUS The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations pro...
GEORGE PIERCE BAKER War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honor but an empty bubble.
JOHN DRYDEN Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasu...
LYSTER For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasu...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of plea...
LYSTER The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Life is a school of probability.
WALTER BAGEHOT This life is a process of learning.
LAURYN HILL Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.
ANNE WILSON SCHAEF Everybody in life is a chameleon.
MELANIE CHISHOLM His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
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TAMMARA WEBBER Life is a grand party.
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