What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“State: 'It's a pleasure to be here' and offer a cup of coffee.” — Business English Magazine Poznań Copy Share Image
It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The difference is great between one's outside "life," the things which happen to one, incidents, pains and pleasures, and one's "living." — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
I've been playing football for 23 years and with more than 30 nationalities; that has been a pleasure. — Clarence Seedorf Copy Share Image
Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The rapturuous, wild, and ineffable pleasure of drinking at somebody else's expense — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
The range of socially permissible and desirable satisfaction is greatly enlarged, but through this satisfaction, the Pleasure Principle is reduced deprived of… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
People will invite you and seek you constantly if you learn how to give them the extreme pleasure of being clever. People… — Margery Wilson Copy Share Image
I have loved, adored and admired Irrfan Khan's work. Some of his movies are remarkable. So, working with him has been an… — Kiku Sharda Copy Share Image
He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Personally, my daughter's wedding gave me a tremendous pleasure. And the wedding was a radiant event and I enjoyed it. I was… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Join with those who sing, tell stories, talk pleasure in life, and have joy in their eyes, because joy is contagious, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of happiness - the temporary pleasure derived primarily from material comfort alone and another more enduring comfort that… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
When Benedict dies, he will have the pleasure of standing before whatever furious God he believes in, to answer for how it… — Mark Morford Copy Share Image
Part of the joy and pleasure of English is its boundless creativity: I can describe a new machine as bicyclish, I can… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Madonna has a far profounder vision of sex than do the feminists. She sees both the animality and the artifice. Changing her… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“The chief means of liberating women is replacing of compulsiveness and compulsion by the pleasure principle. Cooking, clothes, beauty, and housekeeping are… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don't have anybody to share it… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes the pleasure principle gets the best of my better judgment. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
