"economy spoils pleasure"

-- Giacomo Casanova

#Pleasure Quotes #Economy Quotes #Spoil Quotes

“[On the United States:] A nation which does not appreciate that the simple elocution exercise 'Merry Mary married hairy Harry' contains not one but three vowel sounds.”
“My friends come from many species.”
“I think that physics is the most important-indeed the only-means we have of finding out the origins and fundamentals of our universe, and this is what interests me most about it. I believe that as science advances religion necessarily recedes, and this is a process I wish to encourage, because I consider that, on the whole, the influence of religion is malign.”
“You should have to pass an IQ test before you breed. You have to take a driving test to operate vehicles and an SAT test to get into college. So why donâ€™t you have to take some sort of test before you give birth to children? When I am President, thatâ€™s the first rule I will institute.”
“Wherever you go, in every country, on every continent, people yearn and hunger for one thing: to love and be loved.”
“Through the ear, we shall enter the invisibility of things.”
“It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom...never .”
“Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.”

Source : "A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern" by Tryon Edwards, New York, Cassell publishing company, (p. 212), 1891.

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