The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. [Proverbs 9:17] — Bible Copy Share Image
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury. — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
Expect to feel pleasure. Knowledge is sexy. Expect to feel pain. Knowledge is torture. — Jeff Noon Copy Share Image
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
If I see an orchid that's fantastically expensive, I'll buy it. It's worth it, for no other reason than it gives me… — Lee Radziwill Copy Share Image
Eat slowly, with other people whenever possible, and always with pleasure. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Take up something that you know will never bring you any returns except pleasure-in other words, allow yourself to live the way… — Perry Brass Copy Share Image
I box because my father made me a warrior, and that doesn't necessarily have to mean a bad thing, either! After, it… — Fabio Gatti Copy Share Image
Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I… — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
People prone to joyful anticipation, skilled at obtaining pleasure from looking forward and imagining future happy events, are especially likely to be… — Sonja Lyubomirsky Copy Share Image
(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure,… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
It was there, in particular, that I confirmed the truth that love, which we cry up as the source of our pleasures,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The language of commerce has been engineered to describe the overt purpose of a thing, but cannot encompass fringe benefits or peripheral… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The prevailing idea seems to be, that I come to God and ask Him for something that I want, and that I… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
It does not seem a year Since last we sent to you Our wishes for your special day And all that you… — Janet Horne Copy Share Image
I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious-by fits. There are epochs when any kind of mental exercise is torture, and when nothing… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The fact is that purification and austerity are even more necessary for the appreciation of life and laughter than for anything else.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Did it ever strike you that goodness is not merely a beautiful thing, but by far the most beautiful thing in the… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
You probably think that being a guest in your aunt's house I would hesitate to butter you all over the front lawn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thoughts and emotions which never perhaps were in the mind of the artist, never were anticipated, never were intended by him -… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain. — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
Man's pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly. — Pindar Copy Share Image
One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
As a chef I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist, I’m in the pleasure business. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
The amount of pleasure I get from sneaking Waffle into hotels is not normal. — Audrey Kitching Copy Share Image
It is wrong to show pleasure and celebrate the downfall of someone else. You have no idea what the future holds for… — Mir Anas Hossain Copy Share Image
“I will have you do things you never thought possible, but I can also bring you a pleasure you never imagined.” — Tara Sue Me Copy Share Image
It may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It is a sweetness or pleasure that if you are without it, life becomes a thing of worries and of pain. — Ibn Al Qayyim Copy Share Image
Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem. — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
One of my greatest pleasures is being on the farmland that's been in the family since 1833. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Do I really deserve this pleasure? This is American, too-the insecurity about whether we have earned our happiness. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, there's nothing guilty about it. — Busy Philipps Copy Share Image
I take much pleasure in being alone but there is also a strange warm grace in not being alone. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
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