Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations. — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
To secure the greatest amount of pleasure with the least possible outlay should be the aim of all economic effort. — Francois Quesnay Copy Share Image
“I won't ever set the world on fire as a painter,' Dickie said, 'but I get a great deal of pleasure out… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
Pleasure alone makes existence worthwhile. A pleasure-seeker has a difficult time parting from life. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn't lasting. — Moliere Copy Share Image
Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is not the means to bring… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true. — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
The gospel is not a book; it is a living being, with an action, a power, which invades every thing that opposes… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with… — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am-a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I spent my entire Irish Catholic youth in a constant state of guilt over imaginary sins. I learned that nothing is a… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
“My soul, will you ever be good, simple, individual, bare, brighter than the body covers you? Will you ever taste the disposition… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Whichever way we look the prospect is disagreeable. Behind, we have left pleasures we shall never enjoy, and therefore regret; and before,… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the… — Fredrik Bajer Copy Share Image
Beauty - what is beauty, forsooth? Form and color; that is, surface only. Fortune - what is fortune? Nothing is ever a… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body.… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
A child's eyes, those clear, wells of undefiled thought - what on earth can be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and… — Caroline Norton Copy Share Image
I think you have to have your own expectations of yourself and your own sense of purpose and your own intrinsic pleasure… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Cornering is like bringing a woman to a climax. Both you and the car must work together. You start to enter the… — Jackie Stewart Copy Share Image
In the end, to ski is to travel fast and free – free over untouched snow country. To be bound to one… — Hans Gmoser Copy Share Image
Once we agree with God that we exist for His pleasure and His glory, we can accept whatever comes into our lives… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss Copy Share Image
We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nothing but religion is capable of changing pains into pleasures. — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
