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
Even more then long hours in the kitchen, fine meals require ingenious organization and experience which is a pleasure to acquire. — Elizabeth David Copy Share Image
Sweet Bird of Youth”: “The big difference between people is not between the rich and the poor, the good and the evil.… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
A few moments of pleasure cannot be worth the death sentence imposed by its consequence. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
There are times when the art world seems like a religious empire. There are great cathedral galleries and pilgrimage sites where treasured… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
There is a sensuousness to language, there's a pace to it. There's a deliciousness to it. I do have pleasure when I'm… — Jonathan Santlofer 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 don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You're… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as pure, unalloyed pleasure; some bitter ever mingles with the sweet. — Ovid Copy Share Image
If a picture, which is but a mute representation of an object, can give such pleasure, what cannot letters inspire? They have… — Heloise Copy Share Image
Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
You are here on earth for a divine purpose. It is not to be endlessly entertained or to be constantly in full… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
Hank, this is great." "Yes." He said it simply, openly. There was no flattered pleasure in his voice, and no modesty. This,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“For a well-made cup of coffee is the proper beginning to an idle day. Its aroma is beguiling, its taste is sweet;… — Anthony Capella Copy Share Image
Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Friendship is a strange animal. It only thrives in voluntary enjoyment of each other's company, in the pleasure of nonobligatory connection. I… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, and yet I take a kind of pleasure in indulging… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long in disappointment and bitterness at the closed door… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
He wished someone in the course of history had thought of striking that word and all its derivatives from the English Language… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
Don't indulge in careless behaviour. Don't be the friend of sensual pleasures. He who meditates attentively attains abundant joy. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
You will be interested to hear, Hilary, that it [the drug] had a most remarkable effect — even on Selena after a… — Sarah Caudwell Copy Share Image
The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making. Yet pleasure in the work can’t be… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
O people who take pleasure in a life that will vanish, falling in love with a fading shadow is sheer stupidity — Anonymous Copy Share Image
