What can the Creator see with greater pleasure than a happy creature? — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
I love performing, and I love being in front of people. I love the pressure you get and the pleasure performing brings. — Leo Howard Copy Share Image
“To rip off a piece of lover's temper was a pleasure in her deepest vein of enjoyment.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises. — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
If you would wed, wed. If not, take your pleasure where you find it. There's little enough of it in this world."… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love. — William Shatner Copy Share Image
Our cares are the mothers, not only of our charities And virtues, but of our best joys and most cheering and enduring… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
The memory of us as one, I'm going to live well somehow. If it's because I loved you too much..3rd April 1986.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Devotion to the facts will always give the pleasures of recognition; adherence to the rules of design, the pleasures of order and… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
“But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
“Never force yourself to read a book that you do not enjoy. There are so many good books in the world that… — Atwood H. Townsend Copy Share Image
In moments of considerable strain, I tend to take to bread-and-butter pudding. There is something about the blandness of soggy bread, the… — Clement Freud Copy Share Image
A life alert to simple pleasures, with perception cultivated and attuned to beauty, and a large capacity for friendship can serve us… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
In my heart there may be doubt that I deserve the Nobel award over other men of letters whom I hold in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
While it has become “cool” for white folks to hang out with black people and express pleasure in black culture, most white… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
No matter how hard you pursue pleasure and success, there are times when you fail. No matter how fast you flee, there… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
Whenever summer rolls around I begin to realize that I'm a complete and utter book snob. In relation to reading, I have… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
We still (sometimes) remember that we cannot be free if our minds and voices are controlled by someone else. But we have… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
This is the pleasantest part of life. Oblivion throws her light coverlet over our infancy; and, soon after we are out of… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
It was a pleasure to have somebody else be the boss. It wouldn't have been nearly as much fun any other way.… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Is it not enough that we cannot make one another happy, must we also rob one another of the pleasures that any… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
My main disappointment was always that a book had to end. And then what? But I don't think I was ever disappointed… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Whatever may have been said of the satiety of pleasure and of the disgust which usually follows passion, any man who has… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
