The more various our artificial necessities, the wider is our circle of pleasure; for all pleasure consists in obviating necessities as they… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
God does not need our worship. We worship to enlarge our sense of holy, so that we can feel and know the… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Fashion is an ultimate luxury - I mean, you don't need it - so it should bring you pleasure and make you… — Jeremy Scott Copy Share Image
At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
a man doesn't prove he's a man by getting an erection. He's only a real man if he can pleasure a woman.… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Working on 'Malibu Country' with Reba McEntire is truly a gift. She is one of the nicest people that I have ever… — Sara Rue Copy Share Image
No benefit comes from a just man's prayer if he who asks for it finds more pleasure in sin than in virtue.… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Because we remember pain and the menace of death more vividly than pleasure, and because our feelings toward the beneficent aspects of… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“My confessions did nothing to alter this situation, but for the first time in my life I felt that somebody actually knew… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I was enthralled and moved by Azar Nafisi's account of how she defied, and helped others to defy, radical Islam's war against… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
And I imagine... with great pleasure... all the horrible stirrings of the nonmanifested to bring forth the scream which creates the universe.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The pleasure-centered person, too soon bored with each succeeding level of “fun,” constantly cries for more and more. So the next new… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
There is no good talking to him," said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; "no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I take a ridiculous pleasure in what I eat and drink. It comes partly from being a bachelor, but mostly from a… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
There were two drama societies in Enniskillen when I was growing up, St. Michaels and the Enniskillen Amateur Dramatic Society, and I… — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
Love, friendship, respect, admiration are the emotional response of one man to the virtues of another, the spiritual payment given in exchange… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The roses of pleasure seldom last long enough to adorn the brow of him who plucks them; for they are the only… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Maybe people have no idea how much work is behind a picture. It can seem very effortless but there is a lot… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
“All men are hungry. They always have been. They must eat, and when they deny themselves the pleasures of carrying out that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
...when we say we're looking for a spiritual adviser, we're really looking for someone to tell us what to do with our… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe though we… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The greatest and noblest pleasure we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off… — Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor Copy Share Image
Life is often more a sweat than a pleasure but, paradoxically, it is the sweat that gives true meaning to all of… — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
If rich men would remember that shrouds have no pockets, they would, while living, share their wealth with their children, and give… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Natural selection has duped us with an emotion that encourages group thinking. It is an emotion that makes us act as if… — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
We are not peddlers of the fashionable. We believe that good design defies fashion, is truly innovative, eminently sensible, yet a source… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Like all her friends, I miss her greatly...But...I am sure there is no case for lamentation...Virginia Woolf got through an immense amount… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas; since… — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
“Pleasure is a difficult taskmaster, ' Trenton observed thoughtfully, 'and one that people do not mind submitting to. Most don't even realize… — Erika Mathews Copy Share Image
Playing with appearances and mastering the arts of deception are among the aesthetic pleasures of life. They are also key components in… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
If you are not yourself, if you surrender your personality, you have nothing left to give the world. You have no pleasure,… — Edward Wilmot Blyden Copy Share Image
I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The word 'art' is very slippery. It really has no importance in relation to one's work. I work for the pleasure, for… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
a joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
