Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Come live with me and be my Love, And we will all the pleasures prove” — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
If a double-decker bus Crashes into us To die by your side... The pleasure - the privilege is mine. — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Laughing, if loud, ends with a deep sigh; and all pleasures have a sting in the tail, though they carry beauty in… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in which we… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“I am the man that could pleasure you to hell and back and show you paradise along the way.” — Grace Willows Copy Share Image
The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for. — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
For me, one of the pleasures of cats company is their devotion to bodily comfort. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The lover's pleasure is in the pleasure of the beloved. The lover is satisfied when the beloved is fed. The lover is… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we… — John Locke Copy Share Image
But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences… — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At last some time for pleasure trips And do what you want to do The time to just take your time It's… — John Walter Bratton Copy Share Image
“The glutton usually realizes that gout is ever ready to pounce, and that alcohol is bad for him. But possible disaster weighs… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, now that one had acquired the power, the full flavour; to extract every… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Not one man has ever sacrificed for his Lord without being richly repaid. If the cross is only contrasted with earthly pleasures… — Walter J Chantry Copy Share Image
Two kinds of people live a life without care: one kind are extremely worthy of praise, the other kind are extremely worthy… — Ibn Hazm Copy Share Image
If we confine ourselves to a general and distant reflection on the ills of human life, that can have no effect to… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I believe that man was created to enjoy himself, indeed, that he can claim it as his legitimate right. In fact, as… — Kafu Nagai 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
Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In I Praise My Destroyer, Diane Ackerman demonstrates once again her love for the specific language that rises from the juncture of… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
“This year, mend a quarrel. Seek out a forgotten friend. Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust. Write a letter. Give a… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
Youth might be wise; we suffer less from pains than pleasures. — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
