Famous quotes containing the words heart, asks and/or pleasure:
“Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 13:12.
“He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say. He is impelled by inertia, rather than curiosity, and nothing is more unlike the submissive apathy with which he hears his fate revealed than the alert dexterity with which the man of courage lays hands on the future.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)
“The pleasure of love is in loving; and we are happier by the passion we feel than by that we inspire.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)