Laurence Sterne Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: November 24, 1713 - March 18, 1768
Birthday: November 24
Death: March 18
There is a plain distinction to be made betwixt pleasure and happiness. For tho' there can be no happiness without pleasure--yet the converse of the proposition will not hold true.--We are so made, that from the common gratifications of our appetites, and the impressions of a thousand objects, we snatch the one, like a transient gleam, without being suffered to taste the other.
topic: Happiness, Gleam, Taste, Pleasure And Happiness
