Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
If I could prove by logic that you would die in five minutes, I should be sorry you were going to die,… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
There must be a way for man to attain all possible pleasures, all the powers and knowledge that nature can grant him,… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The Prydain Companion is more than a quick reference or handy glossary, though it is all of that as well. Instructive, certainly.… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Remember that Divinity is the true self of Man. It cannot be sold for gold; neither can it be heaped up as… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
To go to the synagogue with one's father on the Passover eve - is there in the world a greater pleasure than… — Sholom Aleichem Copy Share Image
She poured out Swann's tea, inquired "Lemon or cream?" and, on his answering "Cream, please," said to him with a laugh: "A… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
This was exactly what the girl had most dreaded all her life and had scrupulously avoided until now: lovemaking without emotion or… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
When indeed Religion is kindled into enthusiasm, its force like that of other passions is increased by the sympathy of a multitude.… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The goal in tasting wine is not to "find" the same aromas and flavors some other taster is describing. If you hone… — Marvin Shanken Copy Share Image
... life is moral responsibility. Life is several other things, we do not deny. It is beauty, it is joy, it is… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
In architecture, to do anything beyond object form is often treated as something extra-disciplinary - something outside the discipline that has nothing… — Keller Easterling Copy Share Image
The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Every woman has the instinct, the propensity to profit from her charms, and there's a lot to be said for giving oneself… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the… — Jane Siberry Copy Share Image
We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If you watch it, you should watch it with other players and try to find moves, like it was before. Now on… — Boris Gelfand Copy Share Image
I sense that, without sensitivity to physical pain and pleasure, man would not have known self-interest, and consequently know just or unjust… — Jonathan Balcombe Copy Share Image
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's folly that women measure their happiness with the pleasures of the bed, but they do. And when the pleasure cools or… — Euripides Copy Share Image
I think women become more wrapped up emotionally in men when sex is involved. And I think men have a much easier… — Daryl Wein Copy Share Image
There is a terrible lot of us who don't think that we come from a monkey, but if there are some people… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I keep waiting for someone to cast me as the angel or the witch or the immortal of some kind because so… — Lorraine Toussaint Copy Share Image
I take no pleasure in seeing DeLay swing gently in the wind. But the thing I believe in the most is ethics.… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
When we have read a book or poem so often that we can no longer find any amusement in reading it by… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“Sensuality is essentially the only instrument I know how to play (though yes, I do know how to play the keys), but… — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I was a kid who lived to read. It was the primary pleasure of my existence. It's still one of the primary… — Kate DiCamillo 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
I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. .… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I went and took golf lessons so Dad would let me play with him. I was just terrible... but I was able… — David Hyde Pierce Copy Share Image
Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
“One has to 'do' for worldly happiness, for material happiness. However, one does not have to 'do' anything for liberation (moksha) or… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
