Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice. — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
A man who has tasted with profound enjoyment the pleasure of agreeable society will eat with a greater appetite than he who… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
There's a way that you can throw negativity out there that seems rebellious. But I've always taken pleasure in a different kind… — Zac Efron Copy Share Image
Travel releases spontaneity. You become a godlike creature full or choice, free to visit the stately pleasure domes, make love in the… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
As adults, if our top priorities are constantly directed toward the acquisition of more and better worldly goods, it will not take… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
“I am a man without many pleasures in life, a man whose few pleasures are small, but a man whose small pleasures… — Amanda Filipacchi Copy Share Image
The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
The first merit of pictures is the effect they produce on the mind; and the first step of a sensible man should… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There is a line that I always loved from Lucretius. He said, "The sublime is the art of exchanging easier for more… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
In love it is only the commencement that charms. I am not surprised that we find pleasure in frequently recommencing. — Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne Copy Share Image
There needs to be a homemaker exercising some measure of skill, imagination, creativity, desire to fulfill needs and give pleasure to others… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
We love to visit Las Vegas. It is so much fun, so iconic; it is always a pleasure. — Dan Smith Copy Share Image
I think good art should always be entertaining, or at least give pleasure of some sort. And my chief goal as a… — Kenneth Oppel Copy Share Image
Improved perception of our somatic feelings not only gives us greater knowledge of ourselves but also enables greater somatic skill, facility, and… — Richard Shusterman Copy Share Image
When Steampunk meets adventure and adventure meets comedy and comedy meets ingenuity and ingenuity meets charm and charm meets wonder and wonder… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure. — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Even though everybody's lives are different, in general we're all human beings, and we go through the same things: disappointments, the pleasures… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
The greatest pleasure in translating is precisely this feeling of spiritual closeness and spiritual merging with the translated author. Moreover this spiritual… — Ventseslav Konstantinov Copy Share Image
I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true. — Al Gore Copy Share Image
So I have no grounds to complain; on the contrary, writers should consider the condition of permanent controversiality to be invigorating, part… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Sigmund Freud already discovered that suffering gives us pleasure - in a strange masochistic way. The tyranny of choice exploits that weakness.… — Renata Salecl Copy Share Image
If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
... life is moral responsibility. Life is several other things, we do not deny. It is beauty, it is joy, it is… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Friendship may well deserve the sacrifice of pleasure, though not of conscience. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For me, each film, each script is like a little journey in itself, and I'm reinventing the wheel. It's like how do… — Pawel Pawlikowski Copy Share Image
When I am reading for research and making notes, I use a cleverly designed curved lap-desk, and I sit up dutifully, mindful… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“Unkindness is inspired by hatred, anger fuels it into action in which there is no great joy; it would take sadism to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I'm not a big shopper. I'm a pretty simple dresser, and that's not my pleasure go-to thing, looking for clothes. — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
Personally, I have been very impressed by the slow food movement. It is about celebrating the culture of food, of sharing the… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
