There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers… — Moliere Copy Share Image
The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The whole pleasure of being in a state of unknowing is that as long as you don’t know, all possible outcomes feel… — John Green Copy Share Image
It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise… — Steven Strogatz Copy Share Image
I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to… — Camille Claudel Copy Share Image
The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“There are many roads in this world that will guide you to pleasurable, fun, and exciting destinations that do not end in… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
So sweet and delicious do I become, when I am in bed with a man who, I sense, loves and enjoys me,… — Veronica Franco Copy Share Image
I kind of love going to weddings - it's a guilty pleasure. I've never been the wedding-y type girl dreaming about the… — Alison Brie Copy Share Image
I find it an absolute pleasure to read travel guides, especially the Michelin guides, and their description of places I know I'll… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Straight lines go too quickly to appreciate the pleasures of the journey. They rush straight to their target and then die in… — Rene Crevel Copy Share Image
The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies and chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth and see those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For things that worth little or nothing we care a lot; and we oversight what is necessary; because every man goes towards… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all… — Malcolm De Chazal Copy Share Image
There is not such a mighty difference as some men imagine between the poor and the rich; in pomp, show, and opinion,… — Thomas Sherlock 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
Unnur Birna is a Reykjavik-based violinist and singer. She has performed as a session musician with countless Icelandic and international artists while… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
In architecture, to do anything beyond object form is often treated as something extra-disciplinary - something outside the discipline that has nothing… — Keller Easterling Copy Share Image
Yoga is an ancient discipline in which physical postures, breath practice, meditation, and philosophical study are tools for achieving liberation. In my… — Rodney Yee Copy Share Image
Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits upon the undeserving. It is a self-existent principle inherent… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Speak not of guilt, speak not of responsibility. When the Regiment of the Senses parades by, with music, and with banners; when… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
We take pleasure in truth and it amazes the eye of the viewer to see in stone, in canvas, or in wood… — Lodovico Dolce Copy Share Image
If you're willing to take the humiliation of sticking your head above the crowd, maybe it's, you know, the pleasure will be… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
Remember that life is neither pain nor pleasure; it is serious business, to be entered upon with courage and in a spirit… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
all pleasures should be taken in great leisure and are worth going into in detail; love is not like eating a quick… — Mae West Copy Share Image
...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
“He didn't just want her now. He needed her. He needed to feel his rhythm in her body, to see if his… — Lexxie Couper Copy Share Image
“Even the memory of cradling her in my arms is pure euphoria. And all that I ask out of life is that… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
We chase the reward, we get the reward and then we discover that the true reward is always the next reward. Buying… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem. — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
The blessed and inviting truth is that God is the most winsome of all beings and in our worship of Him we… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Mankind's self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order. — Jerry Mander Copy Share Image
You haven't changed after all these years. Still a spoiled brat, but the kindest person of all. I love you -that's why… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
For an infrequent action to become a habit, the user must perceive a high degree of utility, either from gaining pleasure or… — Nir Eyal Copy Share Image
Baltimore is permissiveness. The pleasures of the flesh, the table, the bottle, and the purse are tolerated with a civilized understanding. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
