When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
You can't mix business with pleasure. Unless you're a whore cause then your business is pleasure. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
...they tended towards the simple pleasures in life: drinking, whoring and fighting, preferably all three at once. — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success. — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Carefully purify your conscience from daily faults; suffer no sin to dwell in your heart; small as it may seem, it obscures… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
A 'truth' detached and purified of pleasures of ordinary life is not worth a damn in my view. Every grand theory and… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness, up into one ball: And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Through… — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
“When the baby emerged and I saw her, black-haired, a violet organism that, full of energy, writhed and wailed, I felt a… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
The more obsessively we focus on what a particular food is going to do for us, the less healthy we've become. Simple… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
There is a certain hidden mediocrity in those who are stationed above us in life, an ability to take liberties in their… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
I call God to record against the day we shall appear before our Lord Jesus, that I never altered one syllable of… — William Tyndale Copy Share Image
I listened to Kelley's record with pleasure. Great to hear real music with respect for the righteous roots. Her singing is outstanding… — Jerry Wexler Copy Share Image
These nights are endless, and a man can sleep through them, or he can enjoy listening to stories, and you have no… — Homer Copy Share Image
In part of Lord Kames' Elements of Criticism, he says that "music improves the relish of a banquet." That I deny,--any more… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the filmmakers. I think that… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
The ability to stretch my range into all genres and characters is something I take great pleasure in doing. I thoroughly enjoy… — Brian Tee Copy Share Image
Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
One can never be bored by powder skiing because it is a special gift of the relationship between earth and sky. It… — Dolores LaChapelle Copy Share Image
Advice to a new writer: There are no rules in this profession. Do what is good for you. Read books and watch… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy. — Juvenal 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
For me, one of the pleasures of cats company is their devotion to bodily comfort. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am the man that could pleasure you to hell and back and show you paradise along the way.” — Grace Willows Copy Share Image
The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for. — Jane Rule 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
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
No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Life is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. — Horace Copy Share Image
What I hated most was seeing those priests and brothers getting so much pleasure out of inflicting pain. I wondered what was… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I do not agree that an age of pleasure is no compensation for a moment of pain. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The leaves on the Tree of Life are for the healing of the nations, but what are the fruits for?-They must be… — David Berg Copy Share Image
