Domenico Scarlatti famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.

  • Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.

  • Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.

  • The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

  • Custom, which diminishes the intense, increases the moderate, pleasures.

  • Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.

  • The more we know Him, the more we will desire to know Him. As love increases with knowledge, the more we know God, the more we will truly love Him. We will learn to love Him equally in times of distress or in times of great joy.

  • Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?

  • You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.

  • That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.