Man's pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly. — Pindar 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 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
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
If we do have realistic confidence in our mind and value, if we feel secure within ourselves, we tend to experience the… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
As the pleasure principle is unconstrained by a moral compass based on a respect for others, it is increasingly shaped by the… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If we open up to our vitality and to the sense of urgency that flows within us ... we will have the… — Rick Jarow Copy Share Image
There are hardly any truths upon which we always remain agreed, and still fewer objects of pleasure which we do not change… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleasure. And it's a job -… — Bryan Adams Copy Share Image
What is precious is never to forget, The delight of the blood drawn from ancient springs, Breaking through rocks in worlds before… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
He believed that all people existed behind varying layers of armor which, like the archaeological layers of earth itself, reflected the historical… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
On the one hand, then, in the reproductive functions proper-menstruation, defloration, pregnancy and parturition-woman is biologically doomed to suffer. Nature seems to… — Princess Marie Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I love the book. I love the feel of a book in my hands, the compactness of it, the shape, the size.… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
To desire money is much nobler than to desire success. Desiring money may mean desiring to return to your country, or marry… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I was amongst the virtues like the great Turk in his seraglio of women, and I chose to dwell with that virtue… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
“in that period of life when one has not yet separated the fact of this sensual pleasure from the various women in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Paper money is like dram-drinking, it relieves for a moment by deceitful sensation, but gradually diminishes the natural heat, and leaves the… — Thomas Paine 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
It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
You will have a completely pleasant tomorrow if you accomplish your today work today — Sayed Habib Wardak Copy Share Image
The body is like the wife to the spirit. The two must cohabit to create new forms, but their pleasures rarely coincide. — Subhash Kak Copy Share Image
The pleasure of revenge is a fleeting emotion that is soon replaced by the affliction of conscience. — Wes Fesler Copy Share Image
There's no pleasure in working if you don't do the things you want to do. — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
It's the other team not even making one shot on goal. The thing that gives me the most pleasure is that my… — Ruben Dias Copy Share Image
You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
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
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