The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
And I refused to make any sacrifices; for nothing on earth seemed more valuable than my peace of mind, my pleasure and… — George Sand Copy Share Image
I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them. — Barbara McClintock Copy Share Image
I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough. — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
Fundamentalist Christianity appeals to pre-civilized, prudish tribal people who are not ready for urban feudal pleasures. — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
“PHI2.13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
I think that when you create something or at least try to create something, you slither between excitement and pleasure and you… — Audrey Tautou Copy Share Image
Yes, expertise puts on in position to have further, cognitive pleasures, but these pleasures are distinct from the sensory pleasure of tasting… — Kent Bach Copy Share Image
I am still being recognized as Joanie and probably will as long as Happy Days is playing on TV and remembered by… — Erin Moran Copy Share Image
I was a kid who lived to read. It was the primary pleasure of my existence. It's still one of the primary… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
If I could prove by logic that you would die in five minutes, I should be sorry you were going to die,… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
I, serial number 30743, Lieutenant General in reserves Yitzhak Rabin, a soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces and in the army of… — Yitzhak Rabin Copy Share Image
How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene. 'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,' observed the tempter. 'I'd want to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I cannot tell you what joy it gave me to bring the first soul to the Lord Jesus Christ. I have tasted… — Charles Studd Copy Share Image
Study universal holiness of life. Your whole usefulness depends on this, for your sermons last but an hour or two, your life… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
My mind makes the choice, my conscience is the voice, it's my souls job to measure and my body gets the pleasure! — Desmond Fouche Copy Share Image
For here lies the pleasure of living: In taking God's bounties, and giving The gifts back again. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Your eyes still says you trust your friend. Show me how it looks like when its violated and twisted — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's a pleasure. We are lucky guys to be there in front of the millions and millions watching us. — Pep Guardiola Copy Share Image
I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
If I could do my life over, I would try to cleanse at least my pleasures of self-pity. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The greatest pleasure in life is doing something others said you cannot do! — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
“So why do you kiss someone?" she asks. "To give pleasure or to take it?” — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it after you catch it is a business. — Tommy Henrich Copy Share Image
Every time I come home, it is the same great pleasure to lie down in my bed. That's when I think, 'home… — Sigrid Agren Copy Share Image
Many people weigh the guilt, they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take. — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me. — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image