We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I'm not a big shopper. I'm a pretty simple dresser, and that's not my pleasure go-to thing, looking for clothes. — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it. — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If you're willing to take the humiliation of sticking your head above the crowd, maybe it's, you know, the pleasure will be… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
It's my pleasure and honor to be here fighting on HBO and in the United States. — Jan Zaveck Copy Share Image
Thus always teasing others, and days teas'd, His only pleasure is to be displeas'd — William Cowper Copy Share Image
It is always a great pleasure, and surprise, when you happen on just the perfect place in which to plant some special… — Margery Fish Copy Share Image
The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them. — Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles Copy Share Image
Machines certainly can solve problems, store information, correlate, and play games - but not with pleasure. — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I don't want what you see on the screen to just be a brief notion of pleasure but something that lingers. The… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Why do men delight in work? Fundamentally, I suppose, because there is a sense of relief and pleasure in getting something done… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
How does your experience of one sense affect all the others? In addition to being the conduits of pleasure and pain, your… — Michael J. Gelb Copy Share Image
Pleasures bring effeminacy, and effeminacy foreruns ruin; such conquests, without blood or sweat, sufficiently do revenge themselves upon their intemperate conquerors. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
There is no joy for someone who has no sorrow. There is no pleasure for the one who has no patience No… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
But though such is our character (Oh. why should I speak of things unfit to be uttered?), the things said of us… — Athenagoras of Athens Copy Share Image
I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If you have done something meritorious, you experience pleasure and happiness; if wrong things, suffering. A happy or unhappy life is your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Lenten practices of giving up pleasures are good reminders that the purpose of life is not pleasure. The purpose of life is… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I want to explore the art of pleasure in Italy, the art of devotion in India and, in Indonesia, the art of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Speak not of guilt, speak not of responsibility. When the Regiment of the Senses parades by, with music, and with banners; when… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure. — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
