The sea of pleasures may drown its owner and the swimmer fears to open his eyes under the water. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We take pleasure in truth and it amazes the eye of the viewer to see in stone, in canvas, or in wood… — Lodovico Dolce Copy Share Image
At Bayern, I have rediscovered the pleasure of playing. Here, my body is completely free. — Franck Ribery Copy Share Image
Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing. — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I think women become more wrapped up emotionally in men when sex is involved. And I think men have a much easier… — Daryl Wein Copy Share Image
It's folly that women measure their happiness with the pleasures of the bed, but they do. And when the pleasure cools or… — Euripides Copy Share Image
Prayer reveals to souls the vanity of earthly goods and pleasures. It fills them with light, strength and consolation; and gives them… — Rose of Viterbo Copy Share Image
“One has to 'do' for worldly happiness, for material happiness. However, one does not have to 'do' anything for liberation (moksha) or… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
I went and took golf lessons so Dad would let me play with him. I was just terrible... but I was able… — David Hyde Pierce Copy Share Image
I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. .… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“The good news is that just like pleasure can become pain with repeated use, we can also transform painful activities into pleasant… — Awdhesh Singh Copy Share Image
We've been taught, "Deny yourself pleasure." But moderation is harder because it requires really committing to balance. When I tell my trainer… — Brooke Shields Copy Share Image
There are some people who cannot help giving. Why? Because they experience a real psychological pleasure in doing so. They don't do… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Resolved, that I will do whatsoever I think to be most to God’s glory, and my own good, profit and pleasure, in… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
People can be happy while they are going through great pain and adversity. There's no pleasure evident in their external lives yet… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
God must act and pour himself into you the moment he finds you ready. Don't imagine that God can be compared to… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
There is a line that I always loved from Lucretius. He said, "The sublime is the art of exchanging easier for more… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Honey comes out of the air At early dawn the leaves of trees are found bedewed with honey. Whether this is the… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I am blessed beyond the realms of blessedness, and easily the greatest pleasure is giving it away — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul. — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
It is no less a proof of eminence to have many enemies than many friends — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
My guilty pleasure is Simon & Garfunkel. I'm embarrassed about it. They're dorky. — Kemp Muhl Copy Share Image
“Was I happy? Maybe more content than bouncing-off-the-sofa-like-Tom-Cruise-ecstatic, but that’s still happy isn’t it?” — Lindsey Kelk Copy Share Image
Thanks be to God, the air is soft as in April in Seville, and it is a pleasure to be in it,… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Sex doesn't satisfy for a lifetime, the more you have it, the more you want it. And the more you have it,… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Waking up and having a project to work on is one of life's great pleasures. — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
Oh, what ecstasy setting fires brings to my body! What power I feel at the thought of fire!...Oh, what pleasure, what heavenly… — Joseph Kallinger Copy Share Image
Pleasure is built on self-seeking,but joy is based on self-sacrifice.and the more we pursue self-gratification,the more empty we feel. — Mariane Corbito Copy Share Image
In youth, the absense of pleasure is pain, in old age, the absence of pain is pleasure. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“There is only one real deprivation, I decided this morning, and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
