High people, sir, are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It hard to determine if it is really worth hurting someones feeling just to pleasure yourself for a few minutes, or is… — Kneisha Copy Share Image
I had a pretty modest upbringing; it was no pleasure cruise. I don't think I would be as happy today if I… — Vanilla Ice Copy Share Image
I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I… — Alastair Campbell Copy Share Image
I am happy now, to recall that I was no only his son but his companion, and whenever there was a hunting… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and madness of desire - oh, no - love is… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
“Sensuality is essentially the only instrument I know how play best, but with a listener who understands nothing or does not wish… — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
Play not for gain, but sport. Who plays for more Than he can lose with pleasure, stakes his heart; Perhaps his wife's… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
I was a reader. I loved reading. Reading things gave me pleasure. I was very good at most subjects in school, not… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Our greatest hope is for the experience of joy, and often we are not as smart as we think we are when… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Because I want every breath you take to be empty unless you're close enough to smell me. Every word you speak to… — Christina Dodd Copy Share Image
After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
The remaining revenue on the consumption of foreign luxuries to domestic comforts, being collected on our seaboard and frontiers only, and incorporated… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Among the numerous pleasures of Vienna the hotel evenings are famous. During supper Strauss or Lanner play waltzes...After every waltz they get… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
“You're rather good at this, aren't you?" And she didn't just mean his reading of Gerrard. Vane's grin converted to a rakish… — Stephanie Laurens Copy Share Image
It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
The good renounce everything. The pure don't babble about sensual desires. Whether touched by pleasure or pain, the wise show no change… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Selflessness. It should be the basis of every relationship. If a person truly cares about you, they'll get more pleasure from the… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our mind is where our pleasure is, our heart is where our treasure is, our love is where our life is, but… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
Human beings are afraid of dying. They are always running after something: money, honor, and pleasure. But if you had to die… — Taisen Deshimaru Copy Share Image
The family should be a closely knit group. The home should be a self-contained shelter of security; a kind of school where… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The cast, led by the extraordinary Jennifer Lawrence, is absolutely wonderful across the board. It's such a pleasure to see how they've… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Our greatest pleasure, surely, is in fragments, just as we derive the most pleasure from life if we regard it as a… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
As applied to substance abuse, the cognitive approach helps individuals to come to grips with the problems leading to emotional distress and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How did you ever happen to remember that I might be hungry? But of course you would. Will you mind very much… — Elizabeth Marie Pope Copy Share Image
Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to… — John H Aughey Copy Share Image
I like the roar of cities. In the mart, Where busy toilers strive for place and gain, I seem to read humanity's… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some… — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I'm still prone to periods of isolation, still more fearful of the world out there and more averse to pleasure and risk… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
I sit at my table en grand seigneur , And when I have done, throw a crust to the poor; Not only… — Arthur Hugh Clough Copy Share Image
Those that will not permit their wealth to do any good for others. . . cut themselves off from the truest pleasure… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I grow increasingly aware, and in more ways than expected that I am at the center of my own field; and whether… — Heinrich Hertz Copy Share Image
The facts which have caused us to believe in the dominance of the pleasure principle in mental life also find expression in… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Hygge is about having less, enjoying more; the pleasure of simply being. It is generous and celebratory, a way to remember the… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“•I found pleasure in wine. I found pleasure in women. And I found pleasure in spiritual experience. Only the last one was… — Sukhraj S. Dhillon Copy Share Image
