Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees The greatest pleasure in life… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Our current drug crisis is a tragedy born of a phony system of classification. For reasons that are little more than accidents… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Life is beautiful because it is a controlled yet chaotic dance of ups and downs where we are blessed with the ability… — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
In politics continental Europe was infantile - horrifying. What America lacked, for all its political stability, was the capacity to enjoy intellectual… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I cannot face with comfort the idea of life without work; work and the free play of the imagination are for me… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The morality of scholarship, as currently practiced, is to encourage everyone to replace difficult pleasures by pleasures universally accessible precisely because they… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Taxes are a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
A litterateur is not a confectioner, not a dealer in cosmetics, not an entertainer. . . . He is just like an… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“And when we say also that the Word, who is the first-birth of God, was produced without sexual union, and that He,… — Justin Martyr Copy Share Image
Mimi was massaging Salander's back and neck. She had been kneading intently for 20 minutes while Salander mainly enjoyed herself and uttered… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
The most important thing is you can't write what you wouldn't read for pleasure. It's a mistake to analyze the market thinking… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
...trees to cool the towns in the boiling summer, trees to hold back the winter winds. There were so many things a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. "The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering."… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Bring me a constant woman to her husband, One that ne'er dream'd a joy beyond his pleasure, And to that woman, when… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I'm not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
The acquisition of an accurate and easy conversation, of some skill in music, and in pure and healthful diversions, are of great… — Joseph P. Bradley Copy Share Image
Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
“Many people wonder what it means or feels like to go deep. For me, DEEP means finding new adventures within your soul.… — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
It seems astonishing to be paid for indulging in pure pleasure. For me to go to Coburg is rather as if a… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
I do have hobbies - I garden and bike, for example - but there's nothing in the world that gives me even… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With… — John Donne Copy Share Image
With her eyes alone she could give this response, this absolutely erotic response, as if febrile waves were trembling there, pools of… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the journey of life, we pass pleasures and pain. There will be sunshine and rain; there will be loss and gain.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Would you agree," he said, "that man's sole duty is to produce as much pleasure as possible?" "Only if the pleasure produced… — Susan Hubbard Copy Share Image
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
If any student comes to me and says he wants to be useful to mankind and go into research to alleviate human… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi 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
Nature, with her customary beneficence, has ordained that man shall not learn how to live until the reasons for living are stolen… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a good rousing sneeze, one that tears… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
“I think you've confused being enthralled with amusing yourself by irritating me.' 'Possibly,' he remarked. 'I do find pleasure in that.' He… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A madhouse of frenzied moneymaking and frenzied pleasure-seeking, with none of the corners chipped off. It is beautifully situatedand the air reminds… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
