Pleasure is Nature’s test, her sign of approval.
– Oscar Wilde
Related Quotes:
- With fire we test gold, and with gold we test women, and with women we test men. – Eyden I
- A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep. – Vernon Howard
- When your own approval means more than the approval of others, that is self-love. – Vironika Tugaleva
- When your own approval means more than the approval of others, that is self-love. – Vironika Tugaleva
- Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place. – Oscar Wilde
- A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. – Oscar Wilde
- Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things – Oscar Wilde
- Life is a test. Without problems to solve, it wouldn’t be much of a test. – Richelle E Goodrich
- Life is like a test. If you get love right, you get everything else right. If you get love wrong, you fail the test. – Milan LaBrey
- Life gives us many test. We must graciously take each test! – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Life is a test. A test of Character and Strength, experience is our study guide… so remember what you learn and more importantly-apply it. – Sarah Funkhouser
- Your test is to forgive those who have hurt you, when you pass your test you will see your breakthrough – Jeanette Coron
- There is a Persian proverb: ‘To test that which has been tested is ignorance.’ To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse. – Idries Shah
- There is a Persian proverb: ‘To test that which has been tested is ignorance.’ To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse. – Idries Shah
- Humanity’s true moral test, its fundamental test-¦consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. – Milan Kundera
- Every long separation is a test: A test to see how powerful or how weak the will of reuniting is! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Hardship is a legitimate test of character, resilience a legitimate sign of strength and patience a legitimate mark of faith. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Being able to ask for helpis not a sign of weakness,it is a sign of strength. – Human Angels
- Compassion is a sign of inner peace. Kindness is a sign of inner strength. Be kind and be compassionate. – Debasish Mridha
- Many people think that crying is a sign of weakness, they’re wrong – it is a sign of healing. – Louise Suzanne Boyd
- Tears are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of compassion. – Jim George
- I’m not a slave, man. I just gotta sign out, say where I’m going, what time I’ll be back and then I gotta sign back in. – Ben H Winters
- …the true test of the perversity of a pleasure is that it occupies a disproportionate amount of the attention. – Aleister Crowley
- No sign of pleasure greeted the announcement. The mood in the hall was leaden.My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than lead. – Gail Carson Levine
- Rascals are always sociable, and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others company. – Arthur Schopenhauer
- Pleasure feels better than pain. Make the pursuit of pleasure your guide. – Sharon Weil
- If a pleasure lasts forever, it isn’t a pleasure anymore. – Debasish Mridha
- The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the ?????? are identical. Extreme ?????? anxiety forms the basis of the general fear of life. – Wilhelm Reich
- The true Epicurean cultivates the capacity to take pleasure in simple things, while those around him chase pleasure in more things. – Luke Slattery
- Love is something totally new every day, but pleasure is not, pleasure has continuity. Love is always new, and therefore it is its own eternity. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
- It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, rather, that seemed evil. – Marcel Proust
- It was his vocation to pleasure as many women as possible, in pursuit of his own pleasure. It was as close to a job as he got. – Rosanna Leo
- The ‘ pleasure’ of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness. – Ayn Rand
- When we fulfill any need of the human body, it gives us pleasure. To breathe gives us much pleasure. – Miguel Ruiz
- God gives urge, urge gives pleasure, pleasure gives pains, pains gives fruits, fruits gives trees, trees die and go to hell! – Michael Bassey Johnson
- Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders. – Oscar Wilde
- Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they’re better. – Oscar Wilde
- I wrote when I did not know life;now that I know life, I have no more to say. – Oscar Wilde
- To realise one’s nature perfectly-”that is what each of us is here for. – Oscar Wilde
- America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. – Oscar Wilde