So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury. — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. [Proverbs 9:17] — Bible Copy Share Image
If I see an orchid that's fantastically expensive, I'll buy it. It's worth it, for no other reason than it gives me… — Lee Radziwill Copy Share Image
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Expect to feel pleasure. Knowledge is sexy. Expect to feel pain. Knowledge is torture. — Jeff Noon Copy Share Image
There's no pleasure in working if you don't do the things you want to do. — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I once truly believed that if I had to stand in line for twenty minutes to have a package gift-wrapped it actually… — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
Game, noun: Any unserious occupation designed for the relaxation of busy people and the distraction of idle ones. It's used to take… — Etienne Bonnot de Condillac Copy Share Image
There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly rising o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Riches, honors and pleasure are the sweets which destroy the mind's appetite for heavenly food; poverty, disgrace and pain are the bitters… — George Horne 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
One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is in search of… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
In America, where you'd have thought the country's so huge it couldn't happen quite so cosily, everyone's giving his imprimatur to everyone… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
Almost every sin is committed for the sake of sensual pleasure; and sensual pleasure is overcome by hardship and distress arising either… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anything that effects our decisions besides that of the Glory of God and His Will Alone is an idol. Why are people… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
Revenge is never what you think it's going to be. There's no pleasure and glory, and when it's done your grief remains.… — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image
A freedom or pleasure that rests on someone else's slavery or misery cannot finally satisfy the self because it is a limitation… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
No, ordinary behaviour. The efficient half eats the less efficient half and grows stronger. War is just a violent way of doing… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the… — Jacques Charles Copy Share Image
The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty ... a man with no… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
The pleasure of revenge is a fleeting emotion that is soon replaced by the affliction of conscience. — Wes Fesler Copy Share Image
The body is like the wife to the spirit. The two must cohabit to create new forms, but their pleasures rarely coincide. — Subhash Kak Copy Share Image
You will have a completely pleasant tomorrow if you accomplish your today work today — Sayed Habib Wardak Copy Share Image
It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
It's the other team not even making one shot on goal. The thing that gives me the most pleasure is that my… — Ruben Dias Copy Share Image
Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them. — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
I'm honest, may be some might feel that, I'm brutally honest and gets more pleasure in showing brutality than Honesty… — Santanu Mishra Copy Share Image
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
“God is not interested in the seeds he put in you; He is interested in the fruits that must come out of… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We need to confront the life-killing stereotype that says we're all about suffering. We need to bear witness to our pleasures. — Harriet McBryde Johnson Copy Share Image
Life itself is selfless giving. We're not given this life just for own amusement and pleasures. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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