Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I vow and protest there's more plague than pleasure with a secret. — George Colman the Elder Copy Share Image
It is a pleasure for whoever loves football to enjoy watching Hazard. — Gianfranco Zola Copy Share Image
Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for. — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
For me, one of the pleasures of cats company is their devotion to bodily comfort. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Laughing, if loud, ends with a deep sigh; and all pleasures have a sting in the tail, though they carry beauty in… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in which we… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
Save money on the big, boring stuff so that you have something left over for life's little pleasures. — Elisabeth Leamy Copy Share Image
He is like the rest of his clan, a painful sort of beauty that seems detached and cold — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Even when it wasn’t visible, Dominic could smell the newly broken skin. It sent a wave of hunger through him, but he… — Isabelle Rowan Copy Share Image
Aren't we grateful for our brains, that can take this electrical impulse that comes from light energy and use it to explore… — Louis Schwartzberg Copy Share Image
Whatever man loves, that is his god. For he carries it in his heart; he goes about with it night and day;… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The pleasures of the table belong to all times and ages, to every country and every day; they go hand in hand… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
“For a well-made cup of coffee is the proper beginning to an idle day. Its aroma is beguiling, its taste is sweet;… — Anthony Capella Copy Share Image
If people are living their lives for security and comfort and pleasure, then mind's every waking moment will be plotting those things.… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
The joy of the Lord will arm us against the assaults of our spiritual enemies, and, put our mouths out of taste… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
For money you can have everything it is said. No, that is not true. You can buy food, but not appetite; medicine,… — Arne Garborg Copy Share Image
You get work however you get work, but keep people keep working in a freelance world (and more and more of todays… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We pass the billboard and I console myself in two ways. First, I know that most photographs taken are a gamble at… — Laura McPhee Copy Share Image
“The will has no overall purpose, aims at no highest good, and can never be satisfied. Although it is our essence, it… — Christopher Janaway Copy Share Image
Both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporary suffering, 'No… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
No earthly pleasures, no kingdoms of this world can benefit me in any way. I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. but to move an audience in such a… — Alicia Markova Copy Share Image
I have taught the long poem off and on for years. The more book-length poems I read and studied and taught the… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
He who seeks to imbitter innocent pleasure has a cancer in his heart. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
