All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
In our hedonistic age, the Slow movement has a marketing ace up its sleeve: it peddles pleasure. The central tenet of the… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
Together, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three!… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Had we a privilege of calling up by the power of memory only such passages as were pleasing, unmixed with such as… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If men are in a state in which they find it hard to be weaned from their own ways and choose rather… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The splendor of a human heart that trusts it is loved unconditionally gives God more pleasure than Westminster Cathedral, the Sistine Chapel,… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
It is a great pleasure to be performing with a big band. Those people took part in a group that played the… — Vlatko Stefanovski Copy Share Image
Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing. If… — Shmuel Yosef Agnon Copy Share Image
Here's what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I do my job. I love my job. It's the best job I ever had. And it's probably the best job I… — Preet Bharara Copy Share Image
God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Why had peace given place so soon to turmoil? To two separate solitudes? Because peace had been without thought? Without...integrity? How could… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
a letter, by its arrival, defrauds us of a whole secret region of our existence, the only region indeed in which the… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease; delicacy is not debility; nor must a woman be sick in order to please. Infirmity, and sickness… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Riches, honors and pleasure are the sweets which destroy the mind's appetite for heavenly food; poverty, disgrace and pain are the bitters… — George Horne Copy Share Image
Excitement and depression, fortune and misfortune, pleasure and pain are storms in a tiny private, shell-bound realm - which we take to… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is in search of… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly rising o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Game, noun: Any unserious occupation designed for the relaxation of busy people and the distraction of idle ones. It's used to take… — Etienne Bonnot de Condillac Copy Share Image
I once truly believed that if I had to stand in line for twenty minutes to have a package gift-wrapped it actually… — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because... The change from trouble to comfort gives… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
For me, Scholesy's the best footballer England has produced in my time. The way he controlled games, passed the ball, saw things… — Wayne Rooney Copy Share Image
At the time I begin writing a novel, the last thing I want to do is follow a plot outline. To know… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
All successful individuals have become such by hard work; by improving moments before they pass into hours, and hours that other people… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
Business is difficult. But it could be approached two ways: Seriously, or with the same way you're doing your job, with entertainment… — Guy Laliberte Copy Share Image
Children should Transcribe favourite Passages. A certain sense of possession and delight may be added to this exercise if children are allowed… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In that sweet mood when pleasure loves to pay Tribute to ease; and, of its joy secure, The heart luxuriates with indifferent… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Our sexuality is affected by our fantasies. Some of these fantasies have their roots in our childhood. We have the power to… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
A mathematical problem should be difficult in order to entice us, yet not completely inaccessible, lest it mock at our efforts. It… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
You want your mind to be boggled. That is a pleasure in and of itself. And it's more a pleasure if it's… — Saul Perlmutter Copy Share Image
Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures, Russet lawns and fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man more credit, or gives him more pleasure than to… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
