Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Play, that is, activity, not pleasures, will keep children cheerful. Jean Paul.

Play the man. George Herbert. 25

Pleasant tastes depend, not on the things themselves, but their agreeableness to this or that particular palate. Locke.

Pleasant words are as an honeycomb; sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. Bible.

Pleas'd with a rattle, tickl'd with a straw. Pope.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short. Othello, ii. 3.

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite, 30 are yet so contrived by nature as to be constant companions. Charron.

Pleasure and revenge / Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice / Of any true decision. Troil. and Cress., ii. 2.

Pleasure and sympathy in things is all that is real and again produces reality; all else is empty and vain. Goethe.

Pleasure can be supported by illusion; but happiness rests upon truth. Chamfort.