“One of my greatest pleasures in life is promising myself I will not drink, or smoke, or take coke, or do heroin, or eat cookies, then doing it. It’s a pleasure that can be repeated daily.”
Love Creeps (2005)
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“I take so little interest in my daily life, that I hardly remember to eat and drink.”
Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights
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“Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.”
W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) British playwright, novelist, short story writer
The Trembling of a Leaf (1921), ch. 3
“I do not eat meat, I do not smoke, and I do not drink, and therefore, I do not feel the cold.”
Percy Grainger (1882–1961) Australian composer, arranger and pianist
Asked why he was wearing few clothes in the middle of winter. Quoted in Percy Grainger by John Bird (Currency Press, 1998), p. 253; quoted in Vegetarianism in Australia - 1788 to 1948: A Cultural and Social History by Edgar Crook (Huntingdon Press, 2006), p. 79 https://books.google.it/books?id=weyfYBz_INYC&pg=PA79.
“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”
Walter Bagehot (1826–1877) British journalist, businessman, and essayist
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
As quoted in The Journal of NIH Research (1990), 2, 30
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Democritus Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of the atomic theory
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
