Quotes About Unexpected Pleasures

#1. Mr Gray didn't care much for Jonesy's body (or so he told himself; in truth it was hard not to feel at least some affection for something capable of providing such unexpected pleasures as 'bacon' and 'murder'), but it did have to take him another couple of hundred miles.

Stephen King

#2. This is one of the difficulties and pleasures of studying the Inklings; Christians all, they offer, along with the expected 20th-century psychological explanations for behavior, unexpected spiritual ones.

Philip Zaleski

#3. What mom cares about most is that I'm happy, healthy and enjoying my life.

Chaz Bono

#4. Even though you're growing up, you should never stop having fun.

Nina Dobrev

#5. You can always say, 'I wish I had landed that triple flip better, or I wish I didn't fall.' They're not regrets, just mistakes.

Michelle Kwan

#6. Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Herbert Spencer

#7. One had a lovely face,
And two or three had charm,
But charm and face were in vain
Because the mountain grass
Cannot but keep the form
Where the mountain hare has lain.
- Memory

W.B.Yeats

#8. The chief end of science is to make things clear, the educative aim is to foster the inquisitive spirit.

J. Arthur Thomson

#9. The useful and the beautiful are never separated.

Periander

#10. The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.

Erin Morgenstern

#11. Exotic: meaning you're "desired."
For madness is seductive, sexy. Female madness.
So long as the female is reasonably young and attractive.

Joyce Carol Oates

#12. Please forgive me. I couldn't always follow you in your wild escapades, just like I can't follow you now. But then as now, my thoughts and heart go with you. I hope that you finally meet the love of your life in Paradise. Try not to tease the angels.

Alan McCluskey

#13. Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.

Isabel Allende

#14. Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which elevates must always surprise.

Samuel Johnson

#15. United we stand, divided we fall is one of the oldest and truest slogans of the Labour movement.

Jeremy Corbyn