top of page

"Novelty is the great parent of pleasure."

Robert South, English Clergyman

Novelty, Pleasure

44

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Novelty is the great parent of pleasure."

Exlpore more Novelty quotes

"There are three things which the public will always clamor for, sooner or later: namely, novelty, novelty, novelty."

Thomas Hood, English Poet

Novelty, Public, Will

"Novelty is the great parent of pleasure."

Robert South, English Clergyman

Novelty, Pleasure

"Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad."

Irving Thalberg, American Producer

Novelty, Talking

Explore more quotes by Robert South

"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus."

"The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words."

"Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities."

"Novelty is the great parent of pleasure."

"It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination."

"Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure."

"The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible."

"Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together."

"Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument."

"God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress."

bottom of page