I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they have only themselves to think of.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
It may be that them whose pleasure brings you into this world owes you a living, but it don't mean the world… — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For pleasure you can read the games collections of Andersson and Chigorin, but for benefit you should study Tarrasch, Keres and Bronstein. — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
The pleasure of life is to work hard towards your goals, but a little bit smart and achieving them. — Ziph Alzu Copy Share Image
Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
The idols of today are unmistakable - self-esteem without achievement, sex without consequences, wealth without responsibility, pleasure without struggle and experience without… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God limits the happiness and pleasure we have now precisely so we might not become attached to this world or dependent upon… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain. Bachus's blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure, Rich the… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures,… — Richard Sharp Copy Share Image
After some time, with my eyes closed, I began to enjoy this wonderful play of colors and forms, which it really was… — Albert Hofmann Copy Share Image
For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Toronto's likable, but it could be a lot more, as I think Montreal is, lovable. What we need more than anything, I… — Andy Barrie Copy Share Image
Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers. When the centre of selfishness is no longer, all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't rightly see how somebody who claims to have had -What'd you say? One partner?-can be… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not… — John Keats Copy Share Image
None the less, perhaps, the highest pleasure in art is identical with the highest pleasure inscientific theory. The emotion which accompanies the… — Roger Fry Copy Share Image
It was rumored, in 1946, that the hangman in Nuremberg adjusted the nooses of some of the condemned to magnify the pain… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
“Where indeed is the happiness in this worldly life? These are illusory beliefs. That is why ‘we’ openly say that, “The happiness… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“You see, when you're excited, your body has trouble telling the difference between pain and pleasure.” — Cherise Sinclair Copy Share Image
It is a real pleasure to see music so bright and spontaneous expressed with corresponding ease and grace. — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
When all your muscles are properly developed, you will, as a matter of course, perform your work with minimum effort and maximum… — Joseph Pilates Copy Share Image
Of troubles know I none, Of pleasures know I many - I rove beneath the sun, Without a single penny. — Eleanor Farjeon Copy Share Image
We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Even in the midst of compassion we feel within I know not what tart sweet titillation of malicious pleasure in seeing others… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
When we attempt to find meaning in the pursuit of pleasure, the commitment to a job, or through plumbing intellectual depths, we… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
When you're seeking after bodily pleasure of food and drink for example, this is going to prevent you from doing what you… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt… — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share Image
Last comes the beverage of the Orient shore, Mocha, far off, the fragrant berries bore. Taste the dark fluid with a dainty… — Pope Leo XII Copy Share Image
