“Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.”
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Tony Benn 69
British Labour Party politician 1925–2014Related quotes

“Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.”
“A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain.”
Variant: A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain. Louie thought: Let go.
Source: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

“Not the intense moment
Isolated, with no before and after,
But a lifetime burning in every moment.”

“One moment of pain is worth a lifetime of glory.”

“There is a lifetime in a moment, a world in a seed and a universe in a thought.”

“A moment's insight is sometimes worth a lifetime's experience.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., in "The Professor at the Breakfast-Table" in The Atlantic Monthly Vol. 4 (1859), p. 505.
Misattributed

“I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.”

“Sometimes the greatest things are the most embarrassing.”
Source: Seriously... I'm Kidding