The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them. — Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles 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
We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The whole business of smoking is like forcing yourself to wear tight shoes just to get the pleasure of taking them off. — Allen Carr Copy Share Image
Eat deliberately, with other people whenever possible, and always with pleasure. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is something of the same pleasure in noticing the hues of the stars that there is in looking at a flower… — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
The lessons we learned with pain leaves us with scars of the past and with life experience to talk about, but the… — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of… — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some… — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If I had my choice, I'd pick a song that tells a story every time. There is a great deal of pleasure… — Vaughn Monroe Copy Share Image
Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
I know to argue against our online lives seems like the argument of the grumpy, old Luddite novelist, but I really always… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If there ever was a pursuit which stultified itself by its very conditions, it is the pursuit of pleasure as the all-sufficing… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Mother is in herself a concrete denial of the idea of sexual pleasure since her sexuality has been placed at the service… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created… — Oscar Wilde 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
When you manage to achieve something, it gives you great pleasure. — Klaas-Jan Huntelaar Copy Share Image
The pleasures of spring are available to everybody and cost nothing. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
