The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is nothing more 'elitist' than thinking our palate pleasure can ever justify a second of suffering or a single death. Please… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
One who loves God retains this humility at all times, not with weariness and struggle, but with pleasure and gladness. — Walter Hilton Copy Share Image
I believe that sensory pleasure should take precedence over intellectual pleasure in art and architecture. — Bernard Rudofsky Copy Share Image
Having sex with you was more then a pleasure...being loved by you was more then a punishment — Shubham Joshi Copy Share Image
As we advance in life the circle of our pains enlarges, while that of our pleasures contracts. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating? — Horace Copy Share Image
The price we pay for our irresponsible explanatory urge is that we often spoil our most pleasant experiences by making good sense… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
I've got my wife and my son, and I work for pleasure. I would have been fulfilled and satisfied doing 'Top Gear,'… — David Coulthard Copy Share Image
Love why do we one passion call, When 'tis a compound of them all? Where hot and cold, where sharp and sweet,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
God's pleasure--the beauty creation possesses in his regard--underlies the distinct being of creation, and so beauty is the first and truest word… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
It is such a gift to be able to write songs in general, but when you can share it with somebody, it… — Valerie June Copy Share Image
Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life,… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Lady Placida smiled. “History seldom takes note of serendipity when it records events. And from what I have heard, I suspect an… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones--I've discovered the… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
“The Christian doctrine of suffering explains, I believe, a very curious fact about the world we live in. The settled happiness and… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I am now even more persuaded of the urgent need to study why Socrates was accused. The dislike of philosophy is perennial,… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
A chronic lack of pleasure, of any enjoyable, rewarding or stimulating experiences, produces a slow, gradual, day-by-day erosion of man's emotional vitality,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
All men who live only according to their five senses, and seek nothing beyond the gratification of their natural appetites for pleasure… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The evidence from both approaches, statistical and experimental, does not appear sufficiently significant to me to warrant forsaking the pleasure of smoking.… — Harry S.N. Greene Copy Share Image
None but those who have learned the art of subjecting their senses as well as reason to hypothetical systems can be persuaded… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“I love this idea," Bruno says. "Of being broken but finding pleasure in it.” — Deborah Copaken Kogan Copy Share Image
Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Pleasure isn't only in getting praised, its even more in praising others. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
Don't ever turn down pleasure because you were afraid of what other people might say. — Belle de Jour Copy Share Image
I can't begin to tell you what a pleasure it was to work with Vikram. He is such a brilliant actor and… — Abhimanyu Singh Copy Share Image
Sexual intercourse is a grossly overrated pastime; the position is undignified, the pleasure momentary and the consequences damnable. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures — Democritus Copy Share Image
Food can offer a moment of pure emotional pleasure in an otherwise hard and difficult world. — Antoni Porowski Copy Share Image
The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead? — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“Pleasure is no longer empty and pain is no longer deadly when God is the transcending reason for all of it.” — Sara Daigle Copy Share Image
Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring. — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Theres a very fine line between pleasure and pain. They are two sides of the same coin, one not existing without the… — 50 Shdes Of Grey Copy Share Image
