There are two things that we should avoid, oh disciple! A life of pleasures, that is low and vain. A life of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Obviously, we all want to feel pleasure. It can't be one of our highest priorities because, simply put, anything worthwhile in life… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
Then I could not help wondering what the watching gods thought of us, with our clever masks and our jokes. What we… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
In the sex education process in schools, the one thing that they teach about is how to get pregnant and how to… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
For some obscure reason, some authorities seem bent on making the drinking of wine a ritual more complicated than chess. They have… — Craig Claiborne Copy Share Image
Most wine knowledge does not directly enhance the pleasures to be had in drinking wine but, rather, enhances one's ability to discover… — Kent Bach Copy Share Image
When the eyes of a woman that a man finds attractive look directly at him, his brain secretes the pleasure-inducing chemical dopamine… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
“Some women do not masturbate for pleasure; they masturbate to make a political statement: to remind us that women do not really… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The bow of God's wrath is bent, and His arrows made ready upon the string. Justice points the arrow at your heart… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
First and foremost I am a chef, whether behind the stove at one of my Northern California restaurants or for the past… — Tyler Florence Copy Share Image
Even if you can't afford to travel the world, you can take your children to the museum, zoo or local park. And… — Kimora Lee Simmons Copy Share Image
Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
“Longing, whether for a passion or person, is one of the most powerful, yet painful, emotions there is. It can drive you… — jennifer salaiz Copy Share Image
Travel releases spontaneity. You become a godlike creature full or choice, free to visit the stately pleasure domes, make love in the… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
Let the painter composing narrative pictures take pleasure in wealth and variety, and avoid repeating any part that occurs in it, so… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The things that brought me the most comfort now were too small to list. Raspberries in cream. Sparrows with cocked heads. Shadows… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
My idea of Heaven is what we've got right now, right here!-All this beauty and pleasure and fun and inspiration and spirit… — David Berg Copy Share Image
My favourite shows of the year are House of Cards, the Scandinavian versions of The Killing and The Bridge, and my guilty… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
“the key factor in our mutual pleasure was that we enjoyed each other’s company, which, banal though it may seem, is the… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
I still derive immense pleasure from remembering how many hod-carrying brickies were encouraged to put on lurex tights and mince up and… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Long before feminism made fashion a guilty pleasure, my first experience of the sisterhood among strangers took place in a communal dressing… — Judith Thurman Copy Share Image
If we can sleep without dreaming, it is well that painful dreams are avoided. If, while we sleep, we can have any… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it's… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Two children, all alone and no one by, Holding their tattered frocks, thro'an airy maze Of motion lightly threaded with nimble feet… — Laurence Binyon Copy Share Image
We could take all the pleasures that have ever been and will ever be in all the universes and add them up… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Our future is like that of the passengers on a small pleasure boat sailing quietly above the Niagara Falls, not knowing that… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
Those who desire only the good pleasure of God abide in peace even in the midst of failure, for God has not… — Rose Philippine Duchesne Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more real, or concern us more, than our own sentiments of pleasure and uneasiness; and if these be favourable… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a… — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
I read books all the time. I'm just half looking for something to do; I mostly just read for pleasure. Occasionally I… — Andrew Dominik Copy Share Image
However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much… — Susie Bright Copy Share Image
It gives me the greatest pleasure to say, as I do from the bottom of my heart, that never in the history… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
The universe is made up of experiences that are designed to burn out your attachment, your clinging, to pleasure, to pain, to… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
He it is, the innermost one, who awakens my being with his deep hidden touches. He it is who puts his enchantment… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Books written out of fire give me a great deal of pleasure. You get the sense that the world for these writers… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will… — Karen Kain Copy Share Image
He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk,… — James Salter Copy Share Image
