I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating ... — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
There's a fine line between pleasure and pain. Love me like a ball and chain. — Brian Setzer Copy Share Image
The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves; they must take their pleasure raw; they haven't the time to… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Scents bring memories, and many memories bring nostalgic pleasure. We would be wise to plan for this when we plant a garden. — Thalassa Cruso Copy Share Image
True 'joy' is the difference between just amusing ourselves to death and creating 'meaningful' pleasure. — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I'm discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
All moments of joy include an element of happiness. But not all moments of happiness include joy. Happiness often comes from drive… — Laurel Mellin Copy Share Image
Haste to thie kiste, thie onlie dortoure bedde.Cale, as the claie whiche will gre on thie hedde,Is Charitie and Love aminge highe… — Thomas Chatterton Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid of cooking as your ingredients will know, and misbehave. Enjoy your cooking and the food will behave; moreover… — Fergus Henderson Copy Share Image
I would be the unhappiest person imaginable, confronted daily with disastrous works crying out with errors, imprecision, carelessness, amateurishness. I avoided this… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
The craving for colour is a natural necessity just as for water and fire. Colour is a raw material indispensable to life.… — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
Our free trade plan is quite simple. We say that every [citizen] shall have the right to buy whatever he wants, wherever… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
He [Patrick Stump] is been a friend of ours for a long time, and when we were talking about working with different… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
God has power to create, or destroy, make, or unmake at his pleasure, to give life, or send death, to judge all,… — King James I Copy Share Image
The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest, with keener avarice, that he may spend… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In working well, if travail you sustain, Into the wind shall lightly pass the pain; But of the deed the glory shall… — Nicholas Grimald Copy Share Image
I was a stray acquaintance whom he had never seem before and would never see again, a wandered for a moment through… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
To minimize my guilt at going to the pictures - to call this wanton pursuit of an effete pleasure by another name… — Quentin Crisp 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
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
It is the pleasure of astonishing others, and the proud satisfaction of never being astonished by them. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future. — Paul Dickson Copy Share Image
“Somewhere in the pain there is pleasure, and that is the most awful part, perhaps. (170)” — Robert Goolrick Copy Share Image
“I was convinced that being ripped in two by him would be the best pleasure I'd ever known.” — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
Love is a fiend, a fire, a heaven, a hell Where pleasure, pain, and sad repentance dwell — Richard Barnfield Copy Share Image
It's always a pleasure on a personal note for me to come back to Australia. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
“Kiss a lover, Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure. Face your life, It's pain, It's pleasure, Leave no path… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“To me, it seems the only pleasure in this world worth having is the joy we derive from living for those we… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
I think that sense of always traveling has something to do with anonymity and privacy and pleasure in having a very clear,… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
Thrift: a way to spend money without having the least little bit of pleasure from it. — Robert Lembke Copy Share Image
One of my passions is that children enjoy their time at school - and reading for pleasure can be an important part… — Charles Clarke Copy Share Image
Salvation, O the joyful sound! 'Tis pleasure to our ears; A sov'reign balm for ev'ry wound, A cordial for our fears. — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be "contrary to nature, to common sense… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Wisdom begins with sacrifice of immediate pleasures for long-range purposes. — Louis Finkelstein Copy Share Image
I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image