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Sagt av |
| Njutning är det största incitamentet till ondska. | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| När man fångar något, upphör nöjet med jakten. | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| Der er ingen fornøjelse ved ikke at have noget at lave; det sjove er at have masser at lave og ikke gøre det. | Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) |
| Intet er ulovligt, hvis hundrede forretningsfolk beslutter sig for at gøre det. | Andrew Young (1932-) |
| Her er rettesnoren for forretningsopgørelser: snyd andre, for de ville snyde dig, hvis de kunne. Det er den sande regel for forretninger. | Charles Dickens (1812-1870) |
| Jeg behøver ingen livvagter, men derimod i højeste grad to specialuddannede autoriserede revisorer. | Elvis Presley (1935-1977) |
| Forretningsmanden er den eneste, som i tide og utide undskylder det, han er i gang med. | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| Det er ikke arbejdsgiverne, der betaler lønningerne, det er kunderne | Henry Ford (1863-1947) |
| Et firma, der kun tjener penge, er en dårlig forretning | Henry Ford (1863-1947) |
| Al forretning beror på gensidig tillid hos den ene af parterne. | Poul Henningsen (1894-1967) |
| Forbrydelse er en logisk forlængelse af en adfærd, som ofte anses for at være aldeles respektabel i lovlige forretninger. | Robert Rice |
| Jeg tjener kun 11 kroner pr. rejse, jeg sælger, men det bliver jo også til en del, når jeg sælger 1 million rejser om året. | Simon Spies |
| The essence of pleasure is spontaneity | Germaine Greer (1939-) |
| Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume | Jean de Boufflers |
| No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. | Mary Worley Montagu |
| One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not. | O. A. Battista |
| But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, from offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously. | Paul Wiener |
| Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival, the departure | Portuguese Proverb |
| Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business. | Raymond Hitchcock (1865-) |
| Novelty is the great parent of pleasure | Robert Southey (1774-1843) |
| Perhaps all pleasure is only relief. | William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) |
| Variety is the soul of pleasure. | Aphra Behn (1640-1689) |
| Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure. | Roland Barthes (1915-1980) |
| Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it. | Stendhal (1783-1842) |
| Love is born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, it is concluded with the impossibility of separation | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. | Jane Austen (1775-1817) |
| Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, pain of love lasts a lifetime. | C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) |
| Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is | C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) |
| An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else - these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other cheap and trivial | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind that only pleases the sight but does not captivate the affections. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) |
| Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it. | Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) |
| There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures. | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not. | O. A. Battista |
| The greatest pleasure of life is love. | Euripides (480 f.Kr.-406 f.Kr.) |
| It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. | Hugo Black (1886-1971) |
| Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure. | Tony Benn (1925-) |
| If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others. | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. | John Steinbeck (1902-1968) |
| It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place to-day, it is vain to seek it there to-morrow. You can not lay a trap for it. | Alexander Smith (1830-1867) |
| If we could all live solitary and without labor, we could all enjoy this ecstasy of independence; since we cannot, its delights are only available to madmen and dictators | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident | Charles Lamb (1775-1834) |
| All pleasure in the world is a passing dream. | Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374) |
| If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others. | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. | George Horace Lorimer (1867-1937) |
| Pleasure is none, if not diversified. | John Donne (1572-1631) |
| What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for avoiding muscular energy, for increasing sensual pleasure and enhancing caloric intake above any conceivable nutritional requirement | John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-) |
| All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenues | Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) |
| As to the myth about Fat Girls and certain abilities to achieve multiple...ummm...my only comment on THAT topic, having both thin and fat and, also, coincidently a girl...is that it most likely has to do with genetics. And praise the Goddess Aphrodite and her son Eros that I know all about those good genetics. | Owen J. McClain |
| For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety | Publilius Syrus (85 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety | Publilius Syrus (85 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| Pleasure itself is not a vice | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| The great source of pleasure is variety | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| It is no less a proof of eminence to have many enemies than many friends | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Thus always teasing others, and days teas'd, His only pleasure is to be displeas'd | William Cowper (1731-1800) |