If virtue holds the secret, don't defer; Be off with pleasure, and be on with her. — Horace Copy Share Image
I was fortunate to get a lot of mileage out of my vices . . . The point is not to be… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
I don't like my voice, and I don't enjoy my singing voice; I do what I do to bring pleasure and diversion… — Romeo Santos Copy Share Image
“It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, rather, that seemed… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I just want to encourage every one of us to realize when we obey God, we’re not doing it for God—I mean,… — Victoria Osteen Copy Share Image
But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The power of the voice in rap is about the expression of truth, rather than the expression of some kind of artifice.… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
The notion of getting pleasure from food has gone too far; we can also get pleasure from anticipating a meal, and from… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
I enjoy both TV writing and novel writing, and they are very similar. The goal is to entertain and amuse the audience,… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition,… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I was a reader. I loved reading. Reading things gave me pleasure. I was very good at most subjects in school, not… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments. — John Barrowman Copy Share Image
What elevates the human soul and empowers it to live in the fullness of its created purpose is not religious intimidation or… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Indulgence is emptiness. I have proved the limits of food and frivolity. There is no real fulfillment in meaningless rushes of pleasure.… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
If anything, I've probably tended more toward humor in my writing and veered more toward pleasure in my personal life. — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
“we not only wish to be pleased, but to be pleased in that particular way in which we have been accustomed to… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
My idea of romance... Is... Okay. I have an idea... I think my idea of romance is tailor-made pleasure. — Harris Dickinson Copy Share Image
It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself;… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I've spent my life capturing beautiful images. And whether in wilderness or in the downtown of a giant city, I find connections,… — Louis Schwartzberg Copy Share Image
Industry is not only the instrument of improvement, but the foundation of pleasure. He who is a stranger to it may possess,… — Robert Blair Copy Share Image
I can't really say enough about Chris Potter. He is one of the greatest musicians I have ever known, and every second… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
According to how gifted we are, we are all given a large or small key to this treasury of wonders. I have… — Rosemary Wells Copy Share Image
“Don’t beg for treasure; create it for yourself. Don’t beg for positions; build one for yourself.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a… — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
If we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we may define a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People who know the garden in which… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
How many people would like to be good, if only they might be good without taking trouble about it! They do not… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I don't finish a lot of the books I read. I get enormous pleasure from reading half f them, two-thirds of them,… — Jackie French Copy Share Image
The idea that skiing might not be fun, might not be for everyone, had never occurred to me. Where I come from,… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“I have nothing to do with others, I am only concerned with myself. I take advantage of the fact that the majority… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken in believing,… — Nicolas Malebranche Copy Share Image
We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to faith in future… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Invitation to Dance- It’s a Dance. And sometimes they turn the lights off in this ballroom. But we’ll dance anyway, you and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
