Famous quotes containing the words heart, asks and/or pleasure:
“When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“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)
“She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.”
—Charles Maurice Talleyrand (1754–1838)