Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
I've had great pleasure meeting the likes of Newt Gingrich and having a chat with the fellow on a staircase. I found… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
The act of seeing any film generally is you knowing more than the characters, even if it's the classic Hitchcock shot of… — Richard Ayoade Copy Share Image
If people do not know what is going to make them better off or give them pleasure, then the idea that you… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
I find that I take a great deal of pleasure knowing I get up people's noses to some degree. — John Connolly Copy Share Image
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is, to meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege I think. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
If I have caught myself struggling to remember, it was, if not a pretense, at least premature, in that I only ever… — Jeanloup Sieff Copy Share Image
A source of permanent, accessible pleasure, our genitals exist. The god who created our misfortune, who made us short-lived, vain and cruel,… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit. — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan continues to release odd and unsettling records, and to do odd and unsettling things on stage. So the term 'still'… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
But it's hard for a man to give up all his pleasures, even when they don't pleasure him no more. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today. — Meredith Willson Copy Share Image
The lessons we learned with pain leaves us with scars of the past and with life experience to talk about, but the… — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
It is easy to understand why the rabble dislike cats. A cat is beautiful; it suggests ideas of luxury, cleanliness, voluptuous pleasures. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The time must come to all of us, who live long, when memory is more than prospect. An angler who has reached… — Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon Copy Share Image
Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
The majority of mankind would seem to be beguiled into error by pleasure, which, not being really a good, yet seems to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
