Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy. — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
It is of the small joys and little pleasures that the greatest of our days are built. — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
“One of the main roots of ungodliness is being a lover of pleasure more than a lover of God.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I spit upon luxurious pleasures, not for their own sake, but because of the inconveniences that follow them. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
“RVM's Thought for the Day - "The Gift of life is a Treasure. Some fill it with Pressure...some with Pleasure !” — RVM Copy Share Image
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are… — Bernard Tschumi Copy Share Image
If nobody ever offers an opinion or takes the slightest interest in one's production, one loses not only all pleasure in them,… — Fanny Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
Between the action sequences, the pleasure lies in observing impeccably dressed Brits exchanging barbed witticisms - making it, basically, Downton Abbey with… — Karina Longworth Copy Share Image
The trouble with poetry is it's often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“This was excitement, and desire, and pleasure. Nothing mattered while you were with a man. Nothing but the man, or men in… — Marshall Thornton Copy Share Image
Not to sound too deep or weird, but I assume that the occasions once you pretty take pleasure in surfing are the… — Kelly Slater Copy Share Image
Life is a Shylock; always it demands The fullest userer's interest for each pleasure. Gifts are not freely scattered by its hands;… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy… — Elsa Schiaparelli Copy Share Image
Not even the deepest sleep will give you such a rest as meditation can. The mind goes on jumping even in deepest… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
If... if... We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation. We spent ourselves… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Bridges - a master of subtle brilliance - plays the hell out of it. Not by showing off, but by going bone-deep… — Peter Travers Copy Share Image
You do not need to be an expert, or even particularly interested in wine, in order to enjoy drinking it. But tasting… — Michael Broadbent Copy Share Image
“Where did our sense of beauty and pleasure come from? That seems to me a huge question—the philosophical equivalent, for atheists, to… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Never forget, that in pain lies gain; if we want early pleasure, we'll miss later treasure. Don't forget. Work hard!” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I do get pleasure from very inconsequential things, like shopping for clothes. — Graham Norton Copy Share Image
Lust is raw selfishness. It's all about my wants, my needs, my pleasure. Most love songs are actually lust songs. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
There is nothing like laughter, and the sharing of pleasure, to build up a friendship made to be treasured. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've played parts that were just likable people, and there's a certain pleasure in that. And that's that. — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Thanks be to God, the air is soft as in April in Seville, and it is a pleasure to be in it,… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
“Was I happy? Maybe more content than bouncing-off-the-sofa-like-Tom-Cruise-ecstatic, but that’s still happy isn’t it?” — Lindsey Kelk Copy Share Image
My guilty pleasure is Simon & Garfunkel. I'm embarrassed about it. They're dorky. — Kemp Muhl Copy Share Image
It is no less a proof of eminence to have many enemies than many friends — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul. — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
I am blessed beyond the realms of blessedness, and easily the greatest pleasure is giving it away — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
At Bayern, I have rediscovered the pleasure of playing. Here, my body is completely free. — Franck Ribery 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
Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
