In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free. — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
Straight lines go too quickly to appreciate the pleasures of the journey. They rush straight to their target and then die in… — Rene Crevel Copy Share Image
Wine ... changing even as we taste it, delivers a message with meaning only in our response. If we are in the… — Gerald Asher Copy Share Image
Nobody knows everything-one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn-and everybody makes mistakes. — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
When you're seeking after bodily pleasure of food and drink for example, this is going to prevent you from doing what you… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens . . . There has never… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
It's a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it. — Charles E. McKenzie Copy Share Image
My favorite - my very favorite movie, which I suppose is a bit of a guilty pleasure in that it's like, you… — Caterina Scorsone Copy Share Image
There's a very fine line between pleasure and pain. They are two sides of the same coin, one not existing without the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
JOY in the LORD puts our mouths out of taste for the pleasures with which the tempter baits his hooks. — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
“Life is more than love and pleasure, I came to dig for treasure. If you want to play, you gotta pay, You… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others. — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I think a book-length poem stands about as good a chance as a collection of individual poems in reaching its field of… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
You remember my ideal cat has always a huge rat in its mouth, just going out of sight - though going out… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I also ask you my friends not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and allow me time for… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The power and magic of music lie in its intangibility and its limitlessness. It suggests images, but leaves us free to choose… — Wanda Landowska Copy Share Image
For me, my guilty pleasure is that if I don't want to do anything one day, I won't. I'll just sit around,… — Kris Allen Copy Share Image
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods. -Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas — Lucretius 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
A bran' new book is a beautiful thing, all promise and fresh pages, the neatly squared spine, the brisk sense of a… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences. We… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
I look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind; as indeed… — William Melmoth Copy Share Image
If humankind - from humble farmers in the fields and toiling workers in the cities to teachers, people of independent means, those… — Camille Flammarion 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
Sixty years is cause enough to sing In celebration of a gentle life! To the mother and the wife, Taking pleasure in… — Nick Gordon Copy Share Image
Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There is a perverse mood of the mind which is rather soothed than irritated by misconstruction; and in quarters where we can… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Good conversation can leave you more exhilarated than alcohol; more refreshed than the theater or a concert. It can bring you entertainment… — Dorothy Sarnoff Copy Share Image
It was crazy: marriage. You gave your whole life, your whole happiness, over to one other human being, even the best of… — Anne Taylor Fleming Copy Share Image
On the one hand, then, in the reproductive functions proper-menstruation, defloration, pregnancy and parturition-woman is biologically doomed to suffer. Nature seems to… — Princess Marie Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone the pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
