As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Was I happy? Maybe more content than bouncing-off-the-sofa-like-Tom-Cruise-ecstatic, but that’s still happy isn’t it?” — Lindsey Kelk Copy Share Image
Thanks be to God, the air is soft as in April in Seville, and it is a pleasure to be in it,… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
My guilty pleasure is Simon & Garfunkel. I'm embarrassed about it. They're dorky. — Kemp Muhl Copy Share Image
It is no less a proof of eminence to have many enemies than many friends — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul. — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
I am blessed beyond the realms of blessedness, and easily the greatest pleasure is giving it away — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
My parents always liked it when I cursed in front of them. I could see the pleasure of it in their faces.… — John Green Copy Share Image
A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
As someone who spends a lot of her time on the road, you have to look stylish but comfortable as I'm always… — Maria Sharapova Copy Share Image
Discontents are sometimes the better part of our life. I know not well which is the most useful; joy I may choose… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Learning to decipher words had only added to the pleasures of holding spines and turning pages, measuring the journey to the end… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is because God is infinitely great and good that his glory is the end of all things; and his good pleasure… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
If you were Queen of pleasure And I were King of pain We'd hunt down Love together, Pluck out his flying-feather, And… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
You don't need candlelight and fireside glow to make Christmas happen. Trees, ornaments, gifts, and all of it are splendid embellishments. Not… — Jack W. Hayford Copy Share Image
At the heart of our desires is eternal happiness without the slightest hint of misery. You could say that we are pleasure… — Terry Cole-Whittaker Copy Share Image
If you live in a material universe where acquiring things is very important to you, then family is an absolute deterrent to… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Ask him why there are hypocrites in the world.' 'Because it is hard to bear the happiness of others.' 'When are we… — Vikram Chandra Copy Share Image
Scientific discovery is a private event, and the delight that accompanies it, or the despair of finding it illusory, does not travel.… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
The art of being agreeable frequently miscarries through the ambition which accompanies it. Wit, learning, wisdom,--what can more effectually conduce to the… — Richard Cumberland Copy Share Image
“In consequence, when the pleasures have been removed which busy people derive from their actual activities, the mind cannot endure the house,… — Seneca Copy Share Image
Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
At Bayern, I have rediscovered the pleasure of playing. Here, my body is completely free. — Franck Ribery Copy Share Image
Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We take pleasure in truth and it amazes the eye of the viewer to see in stone, in canvas, or in wood… — Lodovico Dolce Copy Share Image
Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The sea of pleasures may drown its owner and the swimmer fears to open his eyes under the water. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing. — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures. — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
Religion does not censure or exclude Unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Joy and pleasure is at the end of the justice. A right understanding of who God is and who we are in… — Sho Baraka Copy Share Image
Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy. — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
It is of the small joys and little pleasures that the greatest of our days are built. — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
“One of the main roots of ungodliness is being a lover of pleasure more than a lover of God.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
