It is good to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good things, I… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking,… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
The priest's lesson: beware the Nightlord, for his pleasure is a mortal's doom. My grandmother's lesson: beware love, especially with the wrong… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
And while good books - even so-so books - serve both functions, if you ever have to choose one over the other,… — Pete Dexter Copy Share Image
If you believe that you are bad and unacceptable, you are unable to look back at your past with pleasure or your… — Dorothy Rowe Copy Share Image
The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I think that sexual pleasure and the weird color of the sky after a storm or the stream of tail lights across… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Many young people adopt pleasures for which they have not the least taste, only because they are called by that name… You… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The living can't quit living because the world has turned terrible and people they love and need are killed. They can't because… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Happy is it, indeed, for me that my heart is capable of feeling the same simple and innocent pleasure as the peasant… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Nothing but Christianity will give you the victory. Until a man believes in his heart that Jesus Christ is his Lord and… — Francis Scott Key Copy Share Image
Here is a myth for you if myths are your pleasure: "There is no more opportunity in this world." Most people held… — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
For the high achievers, studying gave them the pleasing, absorbing challenge of flow 40 percent of the hours they spent at it.… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
The Eastern monarch who proclaimed a reward to him who should discover a new pleasure, would have deserved well of mankind had… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different… — Barbara Hepworth Copy Share Image
It's been a pleasure to see female comedians be prominent and flourish - like Kate McKinnon's Rudy Giuliani impressions, which are uncanny… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
Richard Gavin is one of the bright new stars in contemporary weird fiction. His richly textured style, deft character portrayal, and powerful… — S. T. Joshi Copy Share Image
To study and constantly, is this not a pleasure? To have friends come from far away places, is this not a joy?… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Heaven is here to stay and sex is here to stay! We'll be able to enjoy many of these so-called fleshly pleasures… — David Berg Copy Share Image
Frankie Randall is a consummate performer. He is an exquisite jazz pianist and wonderful singer. I had the great pleasure to work… — Lainie Kazan Copy Share Image
Whatever your pleasure, belief, sorrow or triumph... we are all human and we are all constantly facing some sort of brokenness. Of… — Hayley Williams Copy Share Image
Men must be ready, they must pride themselves and be happy to sacrifice their private pleasures, passions and interests, nay, their private… — John Adams Copy Share Image
It is my greatest wish to enable our people to live with nothing to envy at the earliest possible date, and it… — Kim Jong Il Copy Share Image
It really is a pleasure to work with someone who you admire. Whatever you do in front of the camera, and I… — Benicio Del Toro Copy Share Image
How come pleasure never makes it on to... a dutiful list of do's and don'ts? Doesn't joy also get soft and flabby… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy. If we understand the difference, we can avoid the pitfalls that… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I always tell people go see something you don't know about. Something you didn't read a ton about on the internet. Something… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
More and more, as I get older, people come up to me and say, 'Thank you for all the laughter.' And my… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
People know that fame and position are pleasant, but they do not know that the pleasure of anonymity is most real. People… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
We all live in the hope of pleasing somebody; and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and always will be… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
Joy is the happiness of love - love aware of its own inner happiness. Pleasure comes from without, and joy comes from… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
If you wander with open eyes and simple curiosity, you'll discover a much richer pleasure - the simple feeling of possibility that… — Rolf Potts Copy Share Image
I think what the Church should ideally do, and does appear to do in the context of straight relationships, is to support… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of… — J. R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
