I think the most joyous thing in life is to loaf around and watch another bloke do a job of work. Look… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There were two drama societies in Enniskillen when I was growing up, St. Michaels and the Enniskillen Amateur Dramatic Society, and I… — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
Almost all men are over anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple… — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not -… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Maybe one of the most heartening findings from the psychology of pleasure is there's more to looking good than your physical appearance.… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Our brain is essentially programmed to enjoy carbohydrates because they give us a sense of fullness and a rush of pleasure. When… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
“Thankfully, the nature of pain reminds us of what the ease of pleasure foolishly allows us to forget.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The fruit of the intent of serving others (sevabhaav) is worldly happiness, and the fruit of the intent of disserving others (kusevabhaav)… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the… — Lawana Blackwell Copy Share Image
It is odd how we sometimes deny ourselves the very pleasure we have longed for and which is finally within our reach. — Cynthia Rylant Copy Share Image
Leading fosters a working atmosphere that stimulates an open exchange of ideas and fosters dissent. People should show a genuine concern for… — Marvin Bower Copy Share Image
The pleasure of working with somebody who's an actor is they don't waste time with stuff that doesn't matter. — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
The best way to remain happy for ever is doing things that pleases you. — Olajide Oluwatobiloba Copy Share Image
How does your experience of one sense affect all the others? In addition to being the conduits of pleasure and pain, your… — Michael J. Gelb Copy Share Image
I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love. — William Shatner Copy Share Image
Like one who has eaten and drunk too much and vomits painfully and then feels better, so did the restless man wish… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Only a fool can be happy. For happiness consists of two contradictory elements: contentment and pleasure. Enjoy pleasure and you have no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
However much we may feel for the misery of someone close to us, we always act with some artificiality in their presence.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The pleasure of the true dreamer does not lie in the substance of the dream, but in this: that there things happen… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
I am grateful for being alive today. It is my joy and pleasure to live another wonderful day. — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
He (Mohammed) seduced the people by promises of carnal pleasure to which the concupiscence of the flesh urges us. His teaching also… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Let the painter composing narrative pictures take pleasure in wealth and variety, and avoid repeating any part that occurs in it, so… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
abroad it is our habit to regard all other travelers in the light of personal and unpardonable grievances. They are intruders into… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
It occured to her that pleasure, no matter how deep, was a ghostly, ephemeral thing. Love might make the world go round,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
So sweet and delicious do I become, when I am in bed with a man who, I sense, loves and enjoys me,… — Veronica Franco Copy Share Image
As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Once the state is looked upon as the source of rights, rather than their bound protector, freedom becomes conditional on the pleasure… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Marijuana is rejected all over the world. Damned. In England heroin is alright for out-patents, but marijuana? They'll put your ass in… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The objective of the Classical Art of Riding is to train the horse not only to be brilliant in the movements and… — Alois Podhajsky Copy Share Image
The impermanence of the universe is manifest, inescapable. I know that, yet I am immoderately attached to this life, these pleasures, this… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
Some of my favorite scenes aren't in the movie. Because you, at some point, realize that your responsibility as director is purely… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
Reading was my hobby, my sport and my activity of choice. It was the prime pleasure of my days, an unfailing escape… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property, it doesn't leave… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
