The sea of pleasures may drown its owner and the swimmer fears to open his eyes under the water. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing. — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
It's a pleasure. We are lucky guys to be there in front of the millions and millions watching us. — Pep Guardiola Copy Share Image
Your eyes still says you trust your friend. Show me how it looks like when its violated and twisted — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For here lies the pleasure of living: In taking God's bounties, and giving The gifts back again. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
It takes tough love to order kids to step away from the iPhone or iPad during dinner or to take the devices… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
Our lives are songs; God write the words And we set them to music at pleasure; And the song grows glad, or… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependent on it. Even though I arrange for a pleasure,… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead; the one… — Socrates Copy Share Image
People seem to read so much more nonfiction than fiction, and so it always gives me great pleasure to introduce a friend… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
George Jones has been a major part of my personal and professional life for a long time. I have been inspired by… — Sammy Kershaw Copy Share Image
“And who talks of error now? I scarcely think the notion that flittered across my brain was an error. I believe it… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don't have anybody to share it… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
If the knowledge of torture of others makes you sick, it is a case of sympathy... It can be argued that behaviour… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mr. Browborough, whose life had not been passed in any strict obedience to the Ten Commandments, and whose religious observances had not… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Through inculcating the notion that sacrifice is a virtue, Christianity has succeeded in convincing many people that misery incurred through sacrifice is… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
A connoisseur of gastronomy was congratulated on his appointment as a director of indirect contributions at Periguex: and, above all, in the… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
My mind makes the choice, my conscience is the voice, it's my souls job to measure and my body gets the pleasure! — Desmond Fouche Copy Share Image
His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“PHI2.13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fundamentalist Christianity appeals to pre-civilized, prudish tribal people who are not ready for urban feudal pleasures. — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
The greatest pleasure in life is doing something others said you cannot do! — Nishan Panwar 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
One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I could do my life over, I would try to cleanse at least my pleasures of self-pity. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Oh, what ecstasy setting fires brings to my body! What power I feel at the thought of fire!...Oh, what pleasure, what heavenly… — Joseph Kallinger Copy Share Image
“Sex doesn't satisfy for a lifetime, the more you have it, the more you want it. And the more you have it,… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Waking up and having a project to work on is one of life's great pleasures. — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough. — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
