I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Whoever did not live in the years neighboring 1789 does not know what the pleasure of living means. [Fr., Qui n'a pas… — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
“If we must tempt to Pleasure, how do we tempt to the least amount of Pleasure? Or better yet, tempt them to… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
The directions for meditation that Sri Krishna gives are very exacting. He tells Arjuna exactly how to get past all the things… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
For every hour of pain I have had a day of pleasure. For every moment of worry, an hour of content. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Don't get so involved in the duties of your life and your children that you forget the pleasure. Remember why you had… — Lois Wyse Copy Share Image
It sure has been a pleasure for us to broadcast for the sailors and soldiers; besides, its part of the National Defence… — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God. Work is as necessary to man as eating and sleeping. Pleasure derived… — Richard L. Evans Copy Share Image
The ideal hole (course) is surely one that affords the greatest pleasure to the greatest number. — Alister MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Some say because music is as much about personal expression as listening pleasure, sharing is integral to why songs have value in… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Gardening can be a compelling cooperative activity. Your best harvest may be the pleasure you get from working with family and friends.… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
Book readers are special people, and they will always turn to books as the ultimate pleasure. Those who do not read are… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
“Sensuality is essentially the only instrument I know how play best, but with a listener who understands nothing or does not wish… — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
Raphael's pleasure, his kiss, sent her over a second time....and it wasn't until they both stirred again that Raphael reached down and… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
The analogies between science and art are very good as long as you are talking about the creation and the performance. The… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I think acting is an important profession, because acting can give you pleasure and can teach you at the same time, and… — Vivien Leigh Copy Share Image
Men, however distinguished by external accidents or intrinsick qualities, have all the same wants, the same pains, and, as far as the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The idea that the profits of capital are really the rewards of a just society for the foresight and thrift of those… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
I've known Nicholas Parsons for a fairly long time and his geniune pleasures are in rubber tubes, metal clips — Clement Freud Copy Share Image
I never knew a man more free from conceit, or one to whom it was a greater extent a pleasure, as well… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
People who achieve a sense of meaning in their lives are happier than those who live from one pleasure to another. — Richard Layard, Baron Layard Copy Share Image
Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the… — Anonymous 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
The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past. — Martial Copy Share Image
Any artist, in any field, wants to press deeper, to discover further. Image and sound play are among the strongest colors available… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Our first postulate is that because God is God, He does as He pleases, only as He pleases, always as He pleases;… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
If we could all live solitary and without labor, we could all enjoy this ecstasy of independence; since we cannot, its delights… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image