Youth might be wise; we suffer less from pains than pleasures. — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
The one pleasure that never palls is the pleasure of not going to church. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
“What use is a good book...if you cannot share your pleasure in it with another?” — Manu Herbstein Copy Share Image
It brings me no pleasure whatsoever to vote against my Conservative government. — Suella Braverman Copy Share Image
Wales was a great pleasure. It's the biggest honor I've ever had, to lead my country. — Chris Coleman Copy Share Image
Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it. — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I'm not a big shopper. I'm a pretty simple dresser, and that's not my pleasure go-to thing, looking for clothes. — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true. — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
I wish I could write librettos for the rest of my life. It is the purest of human pleasures, a heavenly hermaphroditism… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
All our suffering is associated with this pre-occupation. All loss and gain, pleasure and pain arise because we identify so closely with… — Francisco Varela Copy Share Image
Then love of pleasure sways each heart, and we From that no more than from ourselves can fly. Blameless when govern'd well.… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
Our griefs, as well as our joys, owe their strongest colors to our imaginations. There is nothing so grievous to be borne… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
The end of nature sours all my material pleasures. The prospect of living in a genetically engineered world sickens me. And yet… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I fall in love with all the people I'm working with, women, directors, everybody. As actors, that's actually one of the real… — Annette Bening 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
“Seek for no meaning in it; it has none. What meaning is there in pain and pleasure? They are twins; that is… — John Davidson Copy Share Image
Bridges - a master of subtle brilliance - plays the hell out of it. Not by showing off, but by going bone-deep… — Peter Travers Copy Share Image
If... if... We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation. We spent ourselves… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If you have done something meritorious, you experience pleasure and happiness; if wrong things, suffering. A happy or unhappy life is your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Lenten practices of giving up pleasures are good reminders that the purpose of life is not pleasure. The purpose of life is… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
But though such is our character (Oh. why should I speak of things unfit to be uttered?), the things said of us… — Athenagoras of Athens Copy Share Image
I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
