Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness. — Ian K. Smith Copy Share Image
Cooking and baking are pleasures and I want everyone to be able to experience and share them. — Dorie Greenspan Copy Share Image
Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
He bit the inside of his cheek, Death purring wildy. The pleasure of her touch, even one so innocent, rocked him to… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
The whole world lives for pleasure. The only difference is theirs is fleeting, while ours is forever in Jesus. — John Piper Copy Share Image
The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The writer's advantage, in some respects, over those whose expression lies in other fields, is in the privilege of a double -… — Josephine Winslow Johnson Copy Share Image
Depend upon it, a man never experiences such pleasure or grief after fourteen years as he does before, unless in some cases,… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour. We study it, as we listen to… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
People often think that people like me don't have ordinary lives. I have the greatest pleasure, and in fact, the greatest success… — Jenny Shipley Copy Share Image
As I am sure you know, when people say 'It's my pleasure,' they usually mean something along the lines of, 'There's nothing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
Music originally had a social function. You were in church, in a concert hall, a marching band; you were dancing. I'm concerned… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
The star [Tycho's supernova] was at first like Venus and Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but as it then became like Mars, there… — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
“The fruit of the intent of serving others (sevabhaav) is worldly happiness, and the fruit of the intent of disserving others (kusevabhaav)… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
i love playing and chatting with children...feeding and putting them to bed with a little story, and being away from the family… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The charm of smoking a cigarette from the point of view of the people who smoked them, and I was one of… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
My soul was a burden, bruised and bleeding. It was tired of the man who carried it, but I found no place… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate.… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
Freemasonry must stand upon the Rock of Truth, religion, political, social, and economic. Nothing is so worthy of its care as freedom… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Contempt for others, like masturbation, is best as a secret pleasure. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
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