And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences… — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The glutton usually realizes that gout is ever ready to pounce, and that alcohol is bad for him. But possible disaster weighs… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, now that one had acquired the power, the full flavour; to extract every… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
At last some time for pleasure trips And do what you want to do The time to just take your time It's… — John Walter Bratton Copy Share Image
“She wanted me to remember that pleasure is political--for the capacity to relax and play renews the spirit and makes it possible… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chatted all the way; But left me none the wiser For all she had to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Simply to have all the necessities of life and three meals a day will not bring happiness. Happiness is hidden in the… — Edward M Hays Copy Share Image
And they did have fun, though it was of different kind now. All that yearning and passion had been replaced by a… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
This evolution towards a real responsibility for others is sometimes blocked by fear. It is easier to stay on the level of… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
There are two very natural propensities which we may distinguish in the most virtuous and liberal dispositions, the love of pleasure and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“So what's the big picture about our lust for sex? We're not trying to acquire something. We want to feel something: Alive.… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“when you are earning money by doing what you don’t particularly like, there will be an urgent need to buy pleasure and… — Awdhesh Singh Copy Share Image
If the heart be chiefly and directly fixed on God, and the soul engaged to glorify him, some degree of religious affection… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Motherhood is an amazing feeling, and if you get to relive those special moments while working, it works as an icing on… — Kajol Copy Share Image
“Never force yourself to read a book that you do not enjoy. There are so many good books in the world that… — Atwood H. Townsend Copy Share Image
I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools... I must seek completion only for… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
One should aim, seriously, at disregarding ups and downs; a compliment here, silence there ... the central fact remains stable, which is… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Our pleasures in literature do not, I think, decline with age; last 1st of January was my eighty-second birthday, and I think… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
In my heart there may be doubt that I deserve the Nobel award over other men of letters whom I hold in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A life alert to simple pleasures, with perception cultivated and attuned to beauty, and a large capacity for friendship can serve us… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
In moments of considerable strain, I tend to take to bread-and-butter pudding. There is something about the blandness of soggy bread, the… — Clement Freud Copy Share Image
While it has become “cool” for white folks to hang out with black people and express pleasure in black culture, most white… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I want to fill every part of you, breathe the air from your lungs and leave my handprints on your soul. I… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
No matter how hard you pursue pleasure and success, there are times when you fail. No matter how fast you flee, there… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
Whenever I have endured or accomplished some difficult task -- such as watching television, going out socially or sleeping -- I always… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I scoured myself with lye soap from head to toe to get the evil funk of demon snot off me. I have… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“The greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
“But before twenty is the joy of the body, and after thirty is the joy of the mind; before twenty is the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I love writing. I've always been drawn to that and felt a particular joy in it - like the phrase in Chariots… — Randall Wallace Copy Share Image
Whatever it is that I feel, I express it! I am free with my joy, my laughter, my pleasure, my pain, and… — Kimberly Elise Copy Share Image
Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I realized that my life was to be one of simple, childlike faith, and that my part was to trust, not to… — Charles Studd Copy Share Image
If those sorts of moments would be the only pleasure life offered me, I'd be better off shutting out that one brilliant… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
The ego exists as a powerful force in Western man that cannot be dismissed or denied. The therapeutic goal is to integrate… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
Learn to recognize the counterfeit coins that may buy you just a moment of pleasure, But then drag you for days like… — Hafez Copy Share Image
