Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Let me set my mournful ditty To a merry measure; Thou wilt never come for pity, Thou wilt come for pleasure; Pity… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
You can get a certain amount of pleasure as a mathematical spectator, reading and watching some of the most beautiful arguments that… — Steven Strogatz Copy Share Image
Business by no means forbids pleasures; on the contrary, they reciprocally season each other; and I will venture to affirm, that no… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Call not that man wretched, who whatever else he suffers as to pain inflicted, or pleasure denied, has a child for whom… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
[Angels] guide us to become spiritual people for the pleasure of it... because the spiritual life itself has a great deal of… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
Some people take pleasure in regaling one and all with details of their poor health. They are happy to give an organ… — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. Never underestimate the power of… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The pleasure in traveling consists of the obstacles, the fatigue, and even the danger. What charm can anyone find in an excursion… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
Actually a lot of the supposedly serious and meaningful and worthwhile content on the podcast or on the television is no more… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
I don't know anything that gives me greater pleasure, or profit either, than talking or listening to philosophy. But when it comes… — Plato Copy Share Image
To me, the capacity to earn money has never been a measurement of success. It is my belief that people must develop… — Rudy Vallee Copy Share Image
Just the pleasure of moving and the pleasure of using your body is, I think, maybe the main point. And the pleasure… — Steve Paxton Copy Share Image
My philosophy is the balance of remembering the past but not living in it, to know where you are in the moment,… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
I am writing a play which I probably will not finish until the end of November. I am writing it with considerable… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I obsess everyday about everything. Not only about what we do well but what we can do better... In the end, the… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
Partly why I love to operate is that I love to watch an actor within a shot. When you watch a shot,… — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Love may not lead where we think or hope, but regardless of outcome it should be a call to seriousness and truth.… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“They say though that we do more to avoid pain than we do to gain pleasure. So it is when the pain… — Bronnie Ware Copy Share Image
The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Children have become disengaged from nature and we need to reintroduce them to the pleasure that it brings. If we do that… — Judi Dench Copy Share Image
Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love - you have a treasure within that is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Obviously, it's a great privilege and pleasure to be here at the Yale Law School Sesquicentennial Convocation. And I defy anyone to… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
I listened to Kelley's record with pleasure. Great to hear real music with respect for the righteous roots. Her singing is outstanding… — Jerry Wexler Copy Share Image
I call God to record against the day we shall appear before our Lord Jesus, that I never altered one syllable of… — William Tyndale Copy Share Image
There is a certain hidden mediocrity in those who are stationed above us in life, an ability to take liberties in their… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
“When the baby emerged and I saw her, black-haired, a violet organism that, full of energy, writhed and wailed, I felt a… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
The more obsessively we focus on what a particular food is going to do for us, the less healthy we've become. Simple… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
President Karzai is an incredibly kind and decent man. I had the pleasure of meeting him, and he genuinely cares for his… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Life for most people is a bad dream. They live in pain, grabbing at what they can for pleasure. As they grow… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of… — Terry Riley Copy Share Image
Carefully purify your conscience from daily faults; suffer no sin to dwell in your heart; small as it may seem, it obscures… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
In our land of opportunities and distractions, it's hard to devote our attention to the quiet pleasures of reading. It's as if… — Steve Leveen Copy Share Image
Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness, up into one ball: And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Through… — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
A 'truth' detached and purified of pleasures of ordinary life is not worth a damn in my view. Every grand theory and… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
…there are three prerequisites to going out into the world to walk for pleasure. One must have free time, a place to… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
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