I plant rosemary all over the garden, so pleasant is it to know that at every few steps one may draw the… — Gertrude Jekyll Copy Share Image
It is the expensiveness of our pleasures that makes the world poor and keeps us poor in ourselves. If we could but… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The practice of the Christian life consists of the discernment of (the seeing and hearing), and the reliance upon (the reckless and… — William Stringfellow Copy Share Image
God is the one goal of all our passions and emotions. If you want to be angry, be angry with Him. Chide… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
He alone is worthy of the appellation who either does great things, or teaches how they may be done, or describes them… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The paths by which people journey toward happiness lie in part through the world about them and in part through the experience… — Carl Hilty Copy Share Image
It tore us up emotionally hearing someone say to the judge and the cameras that this is a band that creates music… — Rob Halford Copy Share Image
I want to make sure that everything that I'm creating, I'm creating it so other people get enjoyment out of it. And… — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependent on it. Even though I arrange for a pleasure,… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Only those to whom God is present in everything and who employ their reason in the highest degree and have true enjoyment… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
If golf wasn't enjoyable and there wasn't a lot of humor and enjoyment, even though the game is so frustrating, you would… — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The thing I love about sketch is sometimes it leads you as opposed to you leading it. So, I don't go out… — Harland Williams Copy Share Image
I love radio, and I haven't done it - other than the actual 'Doctor Who' - for so long now. It takes… — Elisabeth Sladen Copy Share Image
Every man that has felt pain knows how little all other comforts can gladden him to whom health is denied. Yet who… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Girls study under the paralyzing idea that their acquirements cannot be brought into practical use. They may subserve the purposes of promoting… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
The secret of the enjoyment of pleasure is to know when to stop. Man doesn't learn this secret easily, but to shun… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Tis hard with respect to Beauty, that its possessor should not have a life enjoyment of it, but be compelled to resign… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas it was its continuance which should have taught us its value.… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
In 1867, George Campbell, Duke of Argyll, had published The Reign of Law, a book that Darwin found deeply annoying. A supporter… — Jonathan Clements Copy Share Image
The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
