When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings,… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
[On the United States:] We are a wildly energetic people in our pursuit of pleasure, let alone in our pursuit of money,… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs is a phenomena which is at once disgusting and… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
love of learning is the most necessary passion ... in it lies our happiness. It's a sure remedy for what ails us,… — Emilie du Chatelet Copy Share Image
Who can describe the transports of a beam truly parental on beholding a daughter shoot up like some fair and modest flower,… — George Fordyce Copy Share Image
But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, from offering… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Many pleasant things are better when they belong to someone else. When things belong to others, we enjoy them twice as much,… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. "The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering."… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
...trees to cool the towns in the boiling summer, trees to hold back the winter winds. There were so many things a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The most important thing is you can't write what you wouldn't read for pleasure. It's a mistake to analyze the market thinking… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
“And when we say also that the Word, who is the first-birth of God, was produced without sexual union, and that He,… — Justin Martyr Copy Share Image
Mimi was massaging Salander's back and neck. She had been kneading intently for 20 minutes while Salander mainly enjoyed herself and uttered… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Virtue is the music of the soul, the harmony of the passions; it is the order, the symmetry, the interior beauty of… — Mary Collyer Copy Share Image
I don't like having a teaching job - office hours and conferences and committees and bosses and all that - but I… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, then it is better for you that you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The practice of S/M is the creation of pleasure… And that's why S/M is really a subculture. It's a process of invention.… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
You little know what you have done, when you have first broke the bounds of modesty; you have set open the door… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Christ [is] the very essence of all delights and pleasures, the very soul and substance of them. As all the rivers are… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
There is a guilty pleasure in being rude and knowing that it's acting rather than you. But you get the same release… — Laurence Fox Copy Share Image
I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all… — Al Capone Copy Share Image
This pleasure comes precisely from the sharpest awareness of your own degradation; from the knowledge that you have gone to the utmost… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Fishing, if I a fisher may protest, Of pleasures is the sweetest of sports the best, Of exercises the most excellent, Of… — Thomas Bastard Copy Share Image
How deep congenital sex-inversion roots may be gathered from the fact that the pleasure-dream of the male Urning has to do with… — Richard von Krafft-Ebing Copy Share Image
There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined… — Mark Twain 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
'Alms in secret extinguish the wrath of the Lord' means you are so immersed in sincerity and in preserving that sincerity that… — Shams Tabrizi Copy Share Image
That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I am very much concerned when I see young gentlemen of fortune and quality so wholly set upon pleasures and diversions, that… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Kristen Bell is one of my best friends. I've had the pleasure of working with some really great people, and Kristen is… — Chris Lowell Copy Share Image
Just as I wonder whether it's going to die, the orchid blossoms and I can't explain why it moves my heart, why… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
It is impossible for someone to dispel his fears about the most important matters if he doesn't know the nature of the… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives… — William Bligh Copy Share Image
He had withdrawn solely for his own personal pleasure, only to be near to himself. No longer distracted by anything external, he… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
Half of the popcorn sh-t that's out there, we know it's popcorn. But we're like, "It's my guilty pleasure." I feel like… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
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