What can the Creator see with greater pleasure than a happy creature? — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
“To give love to one who needs it is a far greater pleasure than to receive it.” — Douglas Carlton Abrams Copy Share Image
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
I make my guitar scream with pain or pleasure or sensuality. It makes people move their feet and shake their bodies. That's… — Dick Dale Copy Share Image
Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure. — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
I guess one man's trash is the next man's treasure, one man's pain is the next man's pleasure. — Fort Minor Copy Share Image
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
We were created for meaningful work, and one of life's greatest pleasures is the satisfaction of a job well done. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Take all away. I am content to know Such love is mine-for life is all too brief To grieve for pleasures bringing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I didn't have musical upbringing. I never listened to music growing up, thinking "I want to make my own music". I just… — Mike Stud Copy Share Image
Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
I told myself over and over again, do it for its images, for the pleasure you get out of it. Do it… — Patricia Rozema Copy Share Image
Beauty has nothing to do with possession. If possession and beauty must go together, then we are lost souls. A beautiful flower… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
If this earth should ever be destroyed, it will be by desire, by the lust of pleasure and self-gratification, by greed of… — John Fire Lame Deer Copy Share Image
You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others?… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
Vain is the hope of finding pleasure in that which one has hitherto disdained; as when the warrior hopes to find pleasure… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
My will shall be done regardless of the flaws in thy life, if ye count upon the power of My righteousness. I… — Frances J Roberts Copy Share Image
It's the luxury of time that lets me in some ways now spoil myself. I get my workout in every day. I… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards,… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I have read that the secret of gallantry is to accept the pleasures of life leisurely, and its inconveniences with a shrug;… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
People want to be happy, isn't that right? Haven't you heard it all your life? I want to be happy, people say.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The pleasures of love are for those who are hopelessly addicted to another living creature. The reasons for such addiction are so… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me. — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
