The man who works 52 weeks in the year does not do his best in any one week of the year, Daniel… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory? — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
“The only pleasing thing in life is pain. Pain creates pleasure, but not in the literal way.” — Mia P Copy Share Image
Practicing love often means feeling through fear: intentionally opening yourself when you would rather close down, giving yourself when you would rather… — David Deida Copy Share Image
It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has… — Augustus Copy Share Image
Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant; a marriage of interest, easy; and a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Mimi was massaging Salander's back and neck. She had been kneading intently for 20 minutes while Salander mainly enjoyed herself and uttered… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No benefit comes from a just man's prayer if he who asks for it finds more pleasure in sin than in virtue.… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Good-fellowship, unflagging, is the prime requisite for success in our society, and the man or woman who smiles only for reasons of… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
I took a great deal of pleasure in it, and I still feel nostalgic about it. However, I felt that it had… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
Often, though, the passivity of the woman's role weighs on me, suffocates me. Rather than wait for his pleasure, I would like… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I have a horror of being self-indulgent and wasting time, and there is that risk in doing this kind of work. Are… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
BIBLIOBLISS. Transported into states of transcendent pleasure while immersed in reading a favorite book. — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
You keep thinking that with practice you will eventually get the knack of enjoying superficial encounters, that you will stop looking for… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in… — John Piper Copy Share Image
If you limit yourself to sexual pleasure it's narcissistic. You don't connect with the other, you take what pleasure you want from… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you. — Harold Bloom 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
One thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held for him more then just pleasure. There was… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
