Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All the suffering in the world comes from seeking pleasure for oneself. All the happiness in the world comes from seeking pleasure… — Shantideva Copy Share Image
In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I've shot many films in Hindi and some in Bangla in Kolkata. It's always a pleasure to be part of the city. — Waheeda Rehman Copy Share Image
“There is pleasure from learning the simple truth, and there is a pleasure from learning that the truth is not simple.” — Wayne C. Booth Copy Share Image
When we submit to God's plans, we can trust our desires. Our assignment is found at the intersection of God's plan and… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The pleasure in lovers' gifts is that they are often covert and secretive, worn next to the skin, hidden under pillows. — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Of the laws of nature, on which the condition of man depends, that which is attended with the greatest number of consequences,… — James Mill Copy Share Image
It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
This is a faithless old world. Men and women are hardheaded, pleasure-mad, money crazy. They write up their successes and say, "The… — Lee Roberson Copy Share Image
It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The directions for meditation that Sri Krishna gives are very exacting. He tells Arjuna exactly how to get past all the things… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Halloween is an ancient druidic holiday, one the Celtic peoples have celebrated for millennia. It is the crack between the last golden… — Jenny Colgan Copy Share Image
It has been my pleasure to speak at many Federalist Society gatherings around the country, and I think one thing your organization… — Nadine Strossen Copy Share Image
My will shall be done regardless of the flaws in thy life, if ye count upon the power of My righteousness. I… — Frances J Roberts Copy Share Image
Things like happiness, pleasure, joy, and affection are all good entities that love generates. When times get hard in love, it may… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living.… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
But the truth, he knows, is otherwise. His pleasure in living has been snuffed out. Like a leaf on a stream, like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I settled in with The Uninvited Guests thinking I knew what kind of Edwardian pleasures were in store: the fraught dinner party… — Maile Meloy Copy Share Image
Youth might be wise; we suffer less from pains than pleasures. — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
