There's no greater bliss in life than when the plumber eventually comes to unblock your drains. No writer can give that sort… — Victoria Glendinning Copy Share Image
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is room in the halls of pleasure for a large and lordly train, but one by one we must all file… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There's something so beautiful in coming on one's very inmost thoughts in another. In one way it is one of the greatest… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be enjoyed by a worthy mind. Pleasure's couch is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We must accept all of God's will for us, not just those portions that happen to appeal and bring instant gratification and… — Rod Parsley Copy Share Image
In life the joys are not in doing things to make yourself happy, but the pleasure in seeing a smile on someone's… — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
Well, everybody faces the fact there really aren't many records stores around to just go and browse. Maybe browse online, yet that… — Billy Gibbons Copy Share Image
You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Excitement and depression, fortune and misfortune, pleasure and pain are storms in a tiny private, shell-bound realm - which we take to… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
Banish (the onion) from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it. Its presence lends color and enchantment to the most modest… — Elizabeth Robins Pennell Copy Share Image
But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
Nature, with her customary beneficence, has ordained that man shall not learn how to live until the reasons for living are stolen… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
The first object of any act of learning, over and beyond the pleasure it may give, is that it should serve us… — Ted Sizer Copy Share Image
Learning to savor the vertigo of doing without answers or making do with fragmentary ones opens up the pleasures of recognizing and… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been built up… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“Sadists of Mlle Vinteuil's sort are creatures so purely sentimental, so naturally virtuous, that even sensual pleasure appears to them as something… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Most of the nations that have serious gardening cultures have, or had, empires. You can't have this luxury of pleasure without somebody… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
One of the most unattractive human traits, and so easy to fall into, is resentment at the sudden shared popularity of a… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Widespread violence now functions as part of an anti-immune system that turns the economy of genuine pleasure into a mode of sadism… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
All the great temptations appear first in the region of the mind and can be fought and conquered there. We have been… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Some people get lots of pleasure; From books or from music or art; But boys seem to think it's fantastic; To just… — Giles Andreae Copy Share Image
When all your muscles are properly developed, you will, as a matter of course, perform your work with minimum effort and maximum… — Joseph Pilates Copy Share Image
He kept at true good humor's mark The social flow of pleasure's tide: He never made a brow look dark, Nor caused… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again,… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
The price we pay for our irresponsible explanatory urge is that we often spoil our most pleasant experiences by making good sense… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing. — Adrienne Monnier Copy Share Image
Levin delights in the forgetfulness that movement brings, where the pleasure of doing is marvellously foreign to the striving of the will. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
For pleasure you can read the games collections of Andersson and Chigorin, but for benefit you should study Tarrasch, Keres and Bronstein. — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Duplicity is necessary in daily life, in that it covers many unpleasant things from sight, so they may not disturb the pleasure… — Edouard Rene de Laboulaye Copy Share Image
“And she realized that this is true. Pain has somehow transformed into pleasure, and that pleasure is better than any pain could… — Julia Hoban Copy Share Image
Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
My real pleasure is that 4 times a week 1,800 people are standing up and shouting on Broadway for an author who… — Terry Hands Copy Share Image
