There is a remembrance of the dead to which we turn even from the charms of the living. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Whatever you love most, be it sports, pleasure, business or God, that is your god! — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
He who, by causing pain to others, wishes to obtain pleasure for himself, he, entangled in the bonds of hatred, will never… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something. — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My greatest pleasure is still flying private. I spend between $300,000 to $500,000, depending on my year, on flying private. — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite, are yet so contrived by nature as to be constant companions; and it is a fact… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
Food is also about pleasure, about community, about family and spirituality, about our relationship to the natural world, and about expressing our… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The industrial society... recognises nothing except the power to acquire... No other kind of hope or satisfaction or pleasure can any longer… — John Berger Copy Share Image
All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
After 58 years you'd think writing would get easier. It doesn't. If you're lucky, you become harder to please. That's all right,… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or… — Alex Campbell Copy Share Image
“What bothered me was all of the time he wasted by drumming, and all the time I wasted by listening to him… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
...the tragedy of consumerism: one acquires more and more things without taking the time to ever see and know them, and thus… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
I appreciate the Surreal Life. I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love… — Vince Neil Copy Share Image
When I remember thee in days to come, O Jerusalem, it will not be with pleasure. The musty deposits of 2,000 years… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
I have received your letter of the 6th, with the eloquent discourse delivered at the consecration of the Jewish Synagogue. Having ever… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I want to have a lasting experience with God. Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this world, but then… — Elizabeth Gilbert 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
Seeking the pleasure of conjugality without a willingness to assume the responsibilities of rearing a family is one of the onslaughts that… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
I remember when my mother taught me about my menstrual cycle and pregnancy. She, like millions of other mothers before and since,… — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
Society seldom forgives those who have discovered the emptiness of its pleasures, and who can live independent of it and them. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained.… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think acting is an important profession, because acting can give you pleasure and can teach you at the same time, and… — Vivien Leigh Copy Share Image
A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service. — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
It's always a pleasure on a personal note for me to come back to Australia. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Love is a fiend, a fire, a heaven, a hell Where pleasure, pain, and sad repentance dwell — Richard Barnfield Copy Share Image
“I was convinced that being ripped in two by him would be the best pleasure I'd ever known.” — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
Thrift: a way to spend money without having the least little bit of pleasure from it. — Robert Lembke Copy Share Image
What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be "contrary to nature, to common sense… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
One of my passions is that children enjoy their time at school - and reading for pleasure can be an important part… — Charles Clarke Copy Share Image
Salvation, O the joyful sound! 'Tis pleasure to our ears; A sov'reign balm for ev'ry wound, A cordial for our fears. — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
“Kiss a lover, Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure. Face your life, It's pain, It's pleasure, Leave no path… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think that sense of always traveling has something to do with anonymity and privacy and pleasure in having a very clear,… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
“To me, it seems the only pleasure in this world worth having is the joy we derive from living for those we… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
