Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Nor love, not honor, wealth nor power, can give the heart a cheerful hour when health is lost. Be timely wise; With… — John Gay Copy Share Image
Once you walk off the set, if you're an actor, the rest isn't your responsibility, which I like a lot. I'm not… — Justin Kirk Copy Share Image
Those herbs which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed by as the rest, but, being trodden upon and crushed, are three;… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Year followed struggling year for me, and all that time I read--I suppose few have ever read so. I began, as most… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“And that deep and irreplaceable knowledge of my capacity for joy comes to demand from all of my life that it be… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Ever since I bought and started flying an airplane, it's been almost exclusively for business. I love to fly. It's a great… — Arnold Palmer 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 is a peculiar aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Selfishness does not mean only to do things for one's self. One may do things, affecting others, for his own pleasure and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The New Heaven and New Earth are like a double Millennium, Millennium for ever!-Double your pleasure, double your fun, double your Heaven… — David Berg Copy Share Image
The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Dyson and Tolkien were the immediate human causes of my conversion. Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pleasures First look from morning's window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons The newspaper The dog Dialectics… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures… — Henry Morton Stanley Copy Share Image
There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own.… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
“Pleasure was a powerful tool. More powerful than pain, if you had the patience for it. Even the women who feared him… — Kit Rocha Copy Share Image
There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair,… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The ultimate source of energy, the sun is ready to set. The leaves of the blooming lotus flower in the pond are… — Manmohan Acharya Copy Share Image
It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
You are here on earth for a divine purpose. It is not to be endlessly entertained or to be constantly in full… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
A cat never discusses his business with humans, not even Princesses. A cat never explains and never apologizes. A cat never alibis.… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
When people are still getting pleasure from something that you did 30 years ago, it makes you feel good. I always say… — Walter Hill Copy Share Image
To go about your work with pleasure, to greet others with a word of encouragement, to be happy in the present and… — Edwin Osgood Grover Copy Share Image
Fashion is the veriest goddess of semblance and of shade; to be happy is of far less consequence to her worshippers than… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reading gave me great comfort and pleasure. When I started being able to write, around seven or eight, I wanted to be… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in… — John Piper 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
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
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
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
