all pleasures should be taken in great leisure and are worth going into in detail; love is not like eating a quick… — Mae West Copy Share Image
Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world. — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past… — Martial Copy Share Image
What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Any pleasure gained by means other than mental control weakens the body. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to… — Camille Claudel Copy Share Image
I do not wish to be somebody's convenience, I prefer to be someone's pleasure! — Shahab Aftab Copy Share Image
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a… — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
I read books all the time. I'm just half looking for something to do; I mostly just read for pleasure. Occasionally I… — Andrew Dominik Copy Share Image
However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
We could take all the pleasures that have ever been and will ever be in all the universes and add them up… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Those who desire only the good pleasure of God abide in peace even in the midst of failure, for God has not… — Rose Philippine Duchesne Copy Share Image
Our future is like that of the passengers on a small pleasure boat sailing quietly above the Niagara Falls, not knowing that… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
The universe is made up of experiences that are designed to burn out your attachment, your clinging, to pleasure, to pain, to… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
He it is, the innermost one, who awakens my being with his deep hidden touches. He it is who puts his enchantment… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
A rock or stone is not a subject that, of itself, may interest a philosopher to study; but, when he comes to… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
What do I advise? Forget it all. Don't be afraid. Do what you get the most pleasure from. Is it to build… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Here's what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing. If… — Shmuel Yosef Agnon Copy Share Image
Such was the unhappy condition of the Roman emperors, that, whatever might be their conduct, their fate was commonly the same. A… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in. — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
It's such a pleasure to write down splendid words—almost as though one were inventing them. — Rupert Hart-Davis Copy Share Image
You haven't changed after all these years. Still a spoiled brat, but the kindest person of all. I love you -that's why… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way. — John Muir Copy Share Image
Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Come, let us give a little time to folly... and even in a melancholy day let us find time for an hour… — Bonaventure Copy Share Image
I am not destructive. I cannot do something for my own pleasure that hurts someone else. — Kirti Kulhari Copy Share Image
Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth, To the eternal sun, I render back These atoms, joined in me for… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Strange! that what is enjoyed without pleasure cannot be discontinued without pain! — Hannah More Copy Share Image
There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and a cure. — Ovid Copy Share Image
I write mostly for pleasure, and the reading should ideally be for pleasure, too. — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
I cut the cord for my son, which was a tremendous pleasure, though Ive never eaten calamari since. — Hugh Dennis Copy Share Image
