Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Is this something new, having people stomp on you? Is it what I need to do for your pleasure? — Frank Zappa 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
The mind is something I cultivate and treasure.. thanks beside it was my pleasure.. — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
It's always a pleasure when you get to work with people that you actually really like. — Mekhi Phifer Copy Share Image
You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I want you to know that it is pleasure, not pain, that is your birthright. — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards.… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“We don’t know yet if this girl is going to have sex tonight or not?” “She will for sure. I can smell… — Rebecca Harlem Copy Share Image
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I used to think aged Scotch, expensive pool tables, and one-night stands were the height of pleasure. Then, my greatest guilty pleasure… — Lauren Blakely Copy Share Image
I take pleasure in the little things. Double cheeseburgers, those are good, the sky ten minutes before it rains,the moment your laugh… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, it is much easier to shut one's eyes to good than to evil. Pain and sorrow knock at our doors more… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I might be like a conductor, or I collect the stuff together and I do a lot of my own writing. But… — Simon McBurney 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
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
There's a lot of pain and suffering out there. I think there needs to be more joy, and love, and orgasms in… — Annie Sprinkle Copy Share Image
Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But… — Ludwig von Mises 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
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
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
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
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself. — John Vanbrugh Copy Share Image
She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty. — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection. — Livy Copy Share Image
I began to feel the pleasure of the weightless state between here and there — Leslie Feinberg Copy Share Image
When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I'm not sure the risks I take are any different from what other writers take, since we all serve at the pleasure… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off. — Alex Trebek Copy Share Image
Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing gives me more pleasure than acting. But I don't enjoy going for award functions or giving interviews. — Anushka Sharma Copy Share Image
While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“When you have a wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Eat slowly, with other people whenever possible, and always with pleasure. — Michael Pollan 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
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
One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
