How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me. — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
It is a quite special secret pleasure how the people around us fail to realize what is really happening to them. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Forget not that thy marriage, thy wealth, thy life are not for sense-pleasure, are not for thy individual personal happiness. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“too much explanation can take the pleasure out of any poetry. (Preface, vii)” — Harold G. Henderson Copy Share Image
If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life. Consider pleasures as they… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit? — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
If I made records for my own pleasure, I would only record Charley Patton songs. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“Joy is like sex – it begins and ends. I want pleasure. I want to be contended, but happiness? I no longer… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Young men may enjoy dropping their work at five or six o'clock and slipping into a dress suit for an evening of… — Charles M. Schwab Copy Share Image
This, for many people, is what's most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
You almost never get the pleasure of seeing that you won the argument in real time. People just don't like to publicly… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“The raw tomato, devoured in the garden when freshly picked, is a horn of abundance of simple sensations, a radiating rush in… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
I'll take no charity! What I get I'll earn by taking it. I would feel no pleasure it being given to me,… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
In reviewing my life, in tracing its course, I fill my cell with the pleasure of being what for want of a… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you're having is immediate gratification pleasure, which… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In the natural order no matter what ideals may be theoretically possible, most people more or less live for themselves and for… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
It was in 1590--winter. Austria was far away from the world, and asleep; it was still the Middle Ages in Austria, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We say, then, that Scripture clearly proves this much, that God by his eternal and immutable counsel determined once for all those… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
From my table inside I watch the glamorous women outside who are lunching on Spa Cobb salads without blue cheese or dressing.… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
We danced our youth in a dreamed of city, Venice, paradise, proud and pretty, We lived for love and lust and beauty,… — Veronica Franco Copy Share Image
Though no participator in the joy of more vehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract notions… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“Mercy closed her eyes, the better to savor the most incredible pleasure she’d ever felt. She was never ever going to accuse… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
What can the Creator see with greater pleasure than a happy creature? — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
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