Books can be a source of solace, but I see them mainly as a source of pleasure, personal as well as esthetic. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure? — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Pleasure is always something apposed to pain it is never separate from pain — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Curiosity is a gift, a capacity of pleasure in knowing, which if you destroy, you make yourself cold and dull. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Do not let pleasure distract you from meditation, from the way. Free yourself from pleasure and pain. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
The Prydain Companion is more than a quick reference or handy glossary, though it is all of that as well. Instructive, certainly.… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Life is what we are alive to. It is not length, but breadth. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making,… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
There is a sense in the tree which feels your love and responds to it. It does not respond or show its… — Prentice Mulford Copy Share Image
God not only loves his people but delights in each one of us. He takes great pleasure in us. He's actually blessed… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“when you are earning money by doing what you don’t particularly like, there will be an urgent need to buy pleasure and… — Awdhesh Singh Copy Share Image
If the heart be chiefly and directly fixed on God, and the soul engaged to glorify him, some degree of religious affection… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Sometimes it’s a sort of indulgence to think the worst of ourselves. We say, ‘Now I have reached the bottom of the… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
I mean loyalty - you know, look, first we serve the people. I've always looked at that. You serve the people first.… — Nikki Haley Copy Share Image
There is not such a mighty difference as some men imagine between the poor and the rich; in pomp, show, and opinion,… — Thomas Sherlock Copy Share Image
It sounds schmaltzy to say, but fiction is much more to do with love than people admit or acknowledge. The novelist has… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
When we turn away from the reality of what we do to animals for our gustatory pleasure, we play a game of… — Colleen Patrick-Goudreau Copy Share Image
Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Give us an intense distaste for things that displease You and a renewed pleasure in things that bring You honor and magnify… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure. — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have the distinct pleasure of doing exactly what I want to do and get paid for it. It's a joy. — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life. — Barbara Taylor Bradford Copy Share Image
Attention! I can please only 1 person a day. Today is not your day. 2moro doesnt look good either. — Richie Copy Share Image
“Those who are not afraid to die doing what they love, their death will taste like pleasure to them...” — Pedro Acevedo Copy Share Image
I have these guilty pleasures, these failed films that don't work at all, but I'll watch them if they're on. Like 'The… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
In life the joys are not in doing things to make yourself happy, but the pleasure in seeing a smile on someone's… — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
I really take pleasure and pride in singing the way people expect me to. — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
I wish I could spend my money with more pleasure, but I was one of those kids who squirrelled away my pocket… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
I like drawing. I like to spend the day drawing, the process is important for me. Drawing is a just a pleasure… — Tomm Moore Copy Share Image
The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure - that is the choicest of all. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
There is no pleasure in flying to the top! The pleasure is climbing up there step by step, feeling every single muscle! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“The memory of the pain did not destroy the reality of the pleasure; grief did not obliterate joy.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
