Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Dreams nourish the soul just as food nourishes the body. The pleasure of the search and of adventure feeds our dreams. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Everything is reduced to what's physical in the end, because it's the filth inside people's minds that creates all the evil. What… — Ray Davies Copy Share Image
Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Half of the pleasure of painting and feeling the joy of the creative act is sharing it with others and the feeling… — Sara Genn Copy Share Image
Every woman has the instinct, the propensity to profit from her charms, and there's a lot to be said for giving oneself… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself down to… — Mark the Evangelist Copy Share Image
Throughout my years, I've had the pleasure of assembling and training what I believe to be the best group of people in… — Red Adair Copy Share Image
Pleasure simply brings more craving, but the problem is that we try to get contentment through pleasure. True contentment can only come… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or… — Alex Campbell Copy Share Image
I feel very privileged to get to read and write and not to have to do things that I don't like, and… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure… — Plato Copy Share Image
To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
