If Men and Women took their Pleasures as noisily as the Cats, what Londoner could ever hope to sleep of nights? — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Maturity is the willingness to pass up immediate pleasure in favor of the long-term gain. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
My guiltiest pleasure is reading a novel with a glass of wine. I love to read voraciously. I always have. And I… — Kasi Lemmons Copy Share Image
To study and constantly, is this not a pleasure? To have friends come from far away places, is this not a joy?… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life.… — Shawn Colvin Copy Share Image
Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
Precision is, after all, not only a form of responsibility and a kind of pleasure, but an instrument of compassion. To be… — Marilyn Chandler McEntyre Copy Share Image
An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
In this job, there are some simple pleasures that really help you cope. One is books, I mean, books are a great… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those not exclusively dependent… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
I was neither doing these people nor myself a favor by showing up when my heart wasn't in it. There were not… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures — Samuel Johnson 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
Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures. — Michael Broadbent Copy Share Image
I always think of the live show first, where the song is gonna go in the show. That's why they aren't sad… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
You can include me, too." William blew Olivia a kiss, and her cheeks heated with a blush. "No need to say anything.… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
Scientific results that aren't reported might as well not exist. They're like the sound of one hand clapping. For scientists, communication isn't… — Robert O. Becker Copy Share Image
Do I really deserve this pleasure? This is American, too-the insecurity about whether we have earned our happiness. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
It seems to be hard wired into our pleasure centres to move to music. — George C. Marshall Copy Share Image
And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens take his pleasure. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
How do you know it'll be pleasurable?" He got on the bed and lay down. Breath a whisper, she came closer and… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why should they… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
There's tons of people that spend a lot time watching their well being, they have not acquired time to take pleasure in… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
The most rapturous delights you have ever had - in the beauty of a landscape, or in the pleasure of food, or… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Some men find happiness in gluttony and in drunkenness, but no delicate viands can touch their taste with the thrill of pleasure,… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can.… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
I've seen a lot of LA and I think it's also a place of secrets: secret houses, secret lives, secret pleasures. And… — Victoria Tennant Copy Share Image
How can a man find a sensible way to live? One way and one only- Philosophy. And my philosophy means keeping that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures — Democritus Copy Share Image
