A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure no slight pleasure. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
When I think about how I want to reach an audience, I just wanted to make pieces that were inspired by something… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
The philosophy of hedonism means little to lovers of pleasure. They have no inclination to read philosophy, or to write it. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself? — John Belushi Copy Share Image
“May your dreams be gifts from the gods and may you open them with excitement and pleasure.” — Harley King Copy Share Image
I learned from my parents that you have to get pleasure out of what you're doing, or don't do it. — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
Play is basic to all normal and healthy children. It provides pleasure and learning and a minimum of risks and penalties for… — Frank Caplan Copy Share Image
Watercolour is probably the most satisfying of all mediums. Although difficult in the beginning, after practice its mysteries will unfold, providing the… — Robert A. Lovett Copy Share Image
“What is not possible is to combine the pursuit of pleasure and the enjoyment of comfort with the characteristic pleasures of a… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
One of my regrets would be that I will never again have the pleasure of sneaking into a cafe, any cafe I… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Being politically correct means always having to say you're sorry. Believe me, the power and pleasure and the emotion of this moment… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated with design. I realized early that I had no talent in that direction, but I love talking with architects and… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
Working with Mario Testino was a joy. He's very young spirited, and it's always lovely and a pleasure to spend time talking… — Cara Delevingne Copy Share Image
I believe that one of the great pleasures that we derive from voyaging is that of independence, and we have found that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some people have accused my tragedy of being too sad, as though one desired a merry tragedy. People clamor for Enjoyment as… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
“On Pleasure Pleasure is a freedom-song, But it is not freedom. It is the blossoming of your desires, But it is not… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I was very young when I prepared those prints. I suspect the reason I couldn't celebrate the floating world was that I… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The public never appears to tire of endless courses of strawberries and cream, and the theory that you run the risk of… — Peter Bodo Copy Share Image
What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The dogs in our lives, the dogs we come to love and who (we fervently believe) love us in return, offer more… — Marjorie Garber Copy Share Image
Rabbits are a foolish people. They do not fight except with their own kind, nor use their paws except for feet, and… — Mary Hunter Austin Copy Share Image
Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If you ask people if they enjoy crime novels, they'll say, 'Oh, my guilty pleasure is...' then name a really brilliant crime… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it. — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation. — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Pleasure is the business of the young, business the pleasure of the old. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the… — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
Kind words are such a blessing to the needful, if one but knew the pleasure that they bring. — John McLeod Copy Share Image
“He's always, always in my mind — not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself —… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“When you die, God and the Angels will hold you accountable for all the pleasures you were allowed in life that you… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
The pleasure of criticizing robs us of the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things — Jean De La Bruyere Copy Share Image
What I did was not for sexual pleasure. Rather it brought me some peace of mind. — Andrei Chikatilo Copy Share Image
