La volupte unique et supre" me de l'amour g|"t dans la certitude de faire le mal. The unique, supreme pleasure of love… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Hundreds of stupid flies gather On a piece of rotten meat, Enjoying, they think, a delicious feast. This image fits with the… — 7th Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Joy is not a substitute for sex; sex is very often a substitute for Joy. I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present; one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are men who have themselves whipped simply to increase their sexual pleasure. These, in contrast with true masochists, regard flagellation as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The recollected go forth to lives of renunciation. They take no pleasure in a fixed abode. Like wild swans abandoning a pool,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,--a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The pleasures of intimacy in friendship depend far more on external circumstances than people of a sentimental turn of mind are willing… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
there are - as every one knows - two kinds of writing: one coming out of your vitals and the other from… — J. E. Buckrose Copy Share Image
The biggest shock when I lost it all was the realization that so much of my life had been out of my… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
If my false figures came near to the facts, this happened merely by chance ... These comments are not worth printing. Yet… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
“The trick here is, while the actual pleasure begins to recede and blur, we simultaneously bring the imagined pleasure more fully into… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Americans generally associate boats with leisure. Vastly less prosperous, Egyptians associate them with nothing but labour. Rowing a boat is something a… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
How is it possible to suspend topaz in one cup of the balance and weigh it against amethyst in the other; or… — Ernest Bramah Copy Share Image
Improvisation has been with me since I was a kid, and, taking a selfish pleasure from that, I just thought, "What the… — Jamie Lidell Copy Share Image
but i am content to live in the moment, and allow myself the daily pleasure of obsessing. nothing lasts forever, i tell… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Seeing results flow from my gifts is my greatest pleasure as a philanthropist - whether exonerating a jailed innocent or completing a… — Peter B. Lewis Copy Share Image
A few months ago, I had the pleasure of actually visiting the Playboy Mansion. I saw the peacocks, fed grapes to the… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There's joy… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
Those who skim over the surface in a hit-or-miss fashion not only forfeit the best returns on their efforts, but are ever… — Roderick E. Stevens Copy Share Image
If you are alone, tell some stories to yourself. This is a different kind of pleasure and it has, indeed, its reward.… — Charles Nodier Copy Share Image
Everywhere I go, everyone I talk with, everyone I think about - their salvation is what is on my mind. I love… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
For years I've wanted to work with this guy, so to actually write at the top of my scripts "Empress, Script by… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid of showing your affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy, than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Although Verwoerd thought Africans were lower than animals, his death did not yield us any pleasure. Political assassination is not something I… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The theory which follows is entirely based on a calculus of pleasure and pain; and the object of economics is to maximize… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Her theme was happiness: what it was; what it was not; where we might find it, where not; and how, if found,… — Mary Lavin Copy Share Image
If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
It is a sure sign of a mind not balanced as it ought to be, when it is insensible to the pleasures… — James Ellis Copy Share Image
Food has always been at the center of community bonding, of family life, and simple pleasure, but it is becoming more and… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Pleasure is a sensation. It is written into our bodies; it is our experience of delight, of joy. ... Pleasure will become… — Carol Gilligan Copy Share Image
The taste of chocolate is a sensual pleasure in itself, existing in the same world as sex... For myself, I can enjoy… — Ruth Westheimer Copy Share Image
“It's precisely in despair that you find the most intense pleasure, especially if you are already powerfully conscious of the hopelessness of… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
