Banjo Paterson quotes

“For the drover's life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know,”
-- Banjo Paterson

Source : Banjo Paterson (2010). “Banjo Paterson Complete Poems”, p.33, HarperCollins Australia

#Pleasure Quotes

“Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong, Under the shade of a coolibar tree, And he sang as he sat and waited for his billy-boil, You'll come a-waltzing, Matilda, with me.”
-- Banjo Paterson

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“Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.”

Source : FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Jun 30, 2010

“Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.”

“Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing.”

Source : Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”, p.215, U of Nebraska Press

“To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.”

“The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery. The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.”

“People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.”

“The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.”

“Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.”

“It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.”

Source : Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.60