Thomas Dewar Quotes
Respectability is the state of never being caught doing anything which gives you pleasure.
Thomas Dewar
Quotes to Explore
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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
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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
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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
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Aristotle
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He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.
Aristotle
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Love is the net where hearts are caught like fish.
Muhammad Ali
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I don't know anything that gives me greater pleasure, or profit either, than talking or listening to philosophy. But when it comes to ordinary conversation, such as the stuff you talk about financiers and the money market, well, I find it pretty tiresome personally, and I feel sorry that my friends should think they're being very busy when they're really doing absolutely nothing. Of course, I know your idea of me: you think I'm just a poor unfortunate, and I shouldn't wonder if your right. But then I dont THINK that you're unfortunate - I know you are.
Plato
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I have only one superstition... Touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
George Herbert Palmer
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In a choice between love and fear, choose love.
Marianne Williamson
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There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.
William Allen White
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If it can be profitable to be green, that's just smart business.
Barry Sternlicht
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Respectability is the state of never being caught doing anything which gives you pleasure.
Thomas Dewar
