The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Directors are denied a great pleasure, which is that of being on stage. — Toni Servillo Copy Share Image
when all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater… — Galen Beckett Copy Share Image
there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Love is pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause, and hatred pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“We conform to pain until we don't notice it anymore; it's what you call — numb — and it tragically blots out… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Emotions in this game run deep so before these haters kill me in my sleep I'd like to say, it's been a… — Drake Copy Share Image
There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration. — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
That is why we fly from the inner void, since God might steal into it. It is not the pursuit of pleasure… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I'm troubled by how much I like Rowan Williams. I think it reveals character flaws in myself that I'd rather not think… — Robert Webb Copy Share Image
Good-fellowship, unflagging, is the prime requisite for success in our society, and the man or woman who smiles only for reasons of… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
You think you photograph a particular scene for the pleasure it gives. In fact it's the scene that wants to be photographed.… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
I no longer find such pleasure in that preeminently good society, of which I was once so fond. It seems to me… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Exploration of the natural world begins in early childhood, flourishes in middle childhood, and continues in adolescence as a pleasure and a… — David Sobel Copy Share Image
“Happy?" asked Aquilina, with dreadful look, and a smile full of pity and terror. "Ah, you do not know what it is… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
For praise too dearly lov'd, or warmly sought, Enfeebles all internal strength of thought; And the weak soul within itself unblest, Leans… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift… — Anonymous 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
When I was five, a tree was my best friend. An old peppercorn on Grandpa's little farm. I'd haul myself into its… — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
She never sat down in a car but stood, braced tense, facing the wind. Now and again she would turn her face… — Mazo de la Roche Copy Share Image
There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on, and they would cling… — George Orwell 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
