Watching a ball game is one of the sweetest pleasures in the world. — Silvia Tennenbaum Copy Share Image
The whole world lives for pleasure. The only difference is theirs is fleeting, while ours is forever in Jesus. — John Piper Copy Share Image
Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Cooking and baking are pleasures and I want everyone to be able to experience and share them. — Dorie Greenspan Copy Share Image
I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness. — Ian K. Smith Copy Share Image
Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which… — Steve Kangas Copy Share Image
Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If a person wants to be of any use to himself, he better insist on getting his fair share of beauty and… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
We know well enough when we're being unjust and despicable. but we don't restrain ourselves because we experience a certain pleasure, a… — Ugo Betti Copy Share Image
Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate.… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
Freemasonry must stand upon the Rock of Truth, religion, political, social, and economic. Nothing is so worthy of its care as freedom… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When I was five, a tree was my best friend. An old peppercorn on Grandpa's little farm. I'd haul myself into its… — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
My soul was a burden, bruised and bleeding. It was tired of the man who carried it, but I found no place… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
The charm of smoking a cigarette from the point of view of the people who smoked them, and I was one of… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
i love playing and chatting with children...feeding and putting them to bed with a little story, and being away from the family… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The star [Tycho's supernova] was at first like Venus and Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but as it then became like Mars, there… — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image