one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“A man need is pain to be delivered from the pleasure of sin.” — Lailah Gifty, Akita Copy Share Image
The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
When you're a parent, you sing better. It becomes a pure pleasure, rather than something I have to do. — Celine Dion Copy Share Image
“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not; I may, although I care not, for pleasure… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
“For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.” — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Without suffering in pain, pleasures cant be won. As each dark night, meets a new dawn!! — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
Follow not after the vain, understand the ills of sense pleasures. One who is vigilant and meditative, obtains deep joy. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure.… — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
What is nobler than to tread under foot the gods of the nations, to exorcise evil spirits, to perform cures, to seek… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
Those truffled turkeys, of which the reputation and the price are still increasing, appear like beneficient stars, and make the eyes sparkle… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
It's a sad thing about politics that most people get power too late, in that they differ from ladies of easy virtue… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Groundhog Day was pretty clean. It may have to do with some puritanical feeling that comedy is a forbidden pleasure in a… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
Why do people want to drain your energy? So they can journey to other worlds after death, where pleasures are a thousandfold.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
If the knowledge of torture of others makes you sick, it is a case of sympathy... It can be argued that behaviour… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Culture has lead us to betray our own aboriginal spirit and wholeness, into an ever-worsening realm of synthetic, isolating, impoverishing estrangement. Which… — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
A connoisseur of gastronomy was congratulated on his appointment as a director of indirect contributions at Periguex: and, above all, in the… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
Through inculcating the notion that sacrifice is a virtue, Christianity has succeeded in convincing many people that misery incurred through sacrifice is… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
Mr. Browborough, whose life had not been passed in any strict obedience to the Ten Commandments, and whose religious observances had not… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“Where did our sense of beauty and pleasure come from? That seems to me a huge question—the philosophical equivalent, for atheists, to… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
You do not need to be an expert, or even particularly interested in wine, in order to enjoy drinking it. But tasting… — Michael Broadbent Copy Share Image
Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
