Thomas Dewar Quotes

Respectability is the state of never being caught doing anything which gives you pleasure.

Thomas Dewar

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• There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

  

  Ovid
  • Pleasure
  • Anxiety
  • Pure

• I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Time
  • States
  • Over

• Work is both my living and my pleasure.

  

  Harlan Howard
  • Work
  • Pleasure
  • Living

• Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Pleasure
  • Kindness
  • Love Is

• No more slave States and no more slave territory.

  

  Salmon Portland Chase
  • Slavery
  • Slave
  • States

• The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states.

  

  Lester B. Pearson
  • Life
  • Powerful
  • States

• For years I've advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Writing
  • Pleasure
  • Gratitude

• Caught between the tongue and the taste.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Taste
  • Tongue
  • Caught

• Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Like
  • Happiness
  • Pleasure

• Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Pleasure
  • Disappointment

• God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Alone
  • Artist

• I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Work
  • Pleasure
  • Greatest

• Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Time
  • Pleasure
  • Realizing

• I was very productive as a senator for my state.

  

  Carol Moseley Braun
  • States
  • Productive
  • Senators

• Buddhahood is a state free of all obstructions to knowledge and disturbing emotions. It is the state in which the mind is fully evolved.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Knowledge

• Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Work
  • Pleasure
  • Wealth

• I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists.

  

  Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • Right
  • Pleasure
  • Scandalize

• I never did ask more, nor ever was willing to accept less, than for all the States, and the people thereof, to take and hold their places, and their rights, in the Union, under the Constitution of the United States. For this alone have I felt authorized to struggle; and I seek neither more nor less now.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Accept
  • States

• During the first nineteen months of my life I had caught glimpses of broad, green fields, a luminous sky, trees and flowers which the darkness that followed could not wholly blot out. If we have once seen, "the day is ours, and what the day has shown."

  

  Helen Keller
  • Tree
  • Flower
  • Darkness

• They still have the defense as their calling card, but they have released and liberated the offense.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Team
  • Defense
  • Calling card

• I needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am

  

  Viola Davis
  • Hair
  • Inspiring
  • Hilarious

• The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Secrets
  • Tastes
  • Connoisseur

• Respectability is the state of never being caught doing anything which gives you pleasure.

  

  Thomas Dewar
  • Pleasure
  • States
  • Caught