though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The books [and games] that give us the most pleasure combine uncertainty and satisfaction, tension and release. — Peter Turchi Copy Share Image
Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves! — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
It's the ropes and the reins, and the joy and the pain. And they call the thing rodeo. — Garth Brooks Copy Share Image
I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
Obviously, there is pleasure in the execution of any sort of art, and using language, as Nabokov felt also, is an exquisite… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
If I'm going to get an ice cream cone two or three times a week, then it's a pleasure. No guilt. — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
Join with those who sing, tell stories, talk pleasure in life, and have joy in their eyes, because joy is contagious, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Personally, my daughter's wedding gave me a tremendous pleasure. And the wedding was a radiant event and I enjoyed it. I was… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
I have loved, adored and admired Irrfan Khan's work. Some of his movies are remarkable. So, working with him has been an… — Kiku Sharda Copy Share Image
People will invite you and seek you constantly if you learn how to give them the extreme pleasure of being clever. People… — Margery Wilson Copy Share Image
The range of socially permissible and desirable satisfaction is greatly enlarged, but through this satisfaction, the Pleasure Principle is reduced deprived of… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why should they… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
Whereas men of an older school, like myself, smoke for the pleasure of smoking, men of this school smoke for the pleasure… — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
...smoking is just a habit. 'Tolstoy', she said, mentioning someone I hadn't met, 'says that just as much pleasure can be got… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, the luxuries of electricity,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
If a bell failed to ring, if a stove smoked, if a wheel on a machine stuck, you knew at once where… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
To the love of pleasure we may therefore ascribe most of the agreeable, to the love of action we may attribute most… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image