Quotations
It is sometimes difficult to be inspired when trying to write a persuasive essay, book report or thoughtful research paper. Often of times, it is hard to find words that best describe your ideas. FreePaperz now provides a database of over 150,000 quotations and proverbs from the famous inventors, philosophers, sportsmen, artists, celebrities, business people, and authors that are aimed to enrich and strengthen your essay, term paper, book report, thesis or research paper.
Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.
pleasures
«God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
conscience, deaf, deaf to, megaphone, pains, pain and pleasure, pleasures, pleasuring, rouse, rouses, rousing, shouts, shout out, speaks, The Whisper, whispers
«Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards. Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.»
«Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.»
Author: St. Thomas Aquinas
| About:
Friendship
| Keywords:
agreeable, pleasures, pursuits, source, tedious, The Source
«God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
god, pain, paining, pain and pleasure, pleasures, pleasuring, shouts, shout out, take pains, The Whisper, whispers
«Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Fortune,
Happiness,
Mankind
| Keywords:
conveniences, fortune, good fortune, occur, pieces, pleasures, seldom, small fortune, to a man
«God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
Almighty, garden, God Almighty, indeed, planted, pleasures, purest
«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»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Pleasure
| Keywords:
charm, conversation, fade, fade away, fading away, pleasures, The Pleasure