But why must everything have a practical application? I'd been such a diligent soldier for years - working, producing, never missing a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
It's such a pleasure to write down splendid words—almost as though one were inventing them. — Rupert Hart-Davis Copy Share Image
“...to hold twilight or watch it darken, describes the pleasure we take in pausing to observe as day slips into night. To… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Venice is not only a city of fantasy and freedom. It is also a city of joy and pleasure. — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
Where there is a mind, there are feelings such as pain, pleasure, and joy. No sentient being wants pain: all wants happiness… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Corrupt men are always liars. Lies are their instruments, their pleasure, their solace. In time they come to believe their lies, or… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
It's easy for us to feel separate from other people and from other forms of life, especially if we don't have a… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
A life merely of pleasure, or chiefly of pleasure, is always a poor and worthless life. — Theodore W. Parker Copy Share Image
Each day was a challenge of enjoyment, and he [Hemingway] would plan it out as a field general plans a campign. — A. E. Hotchner Copy Share Image
Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them. — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
For generations, field guides to plants and animals have sharpened the pleasure of seeing by opening our minds to understanding. Now John… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
Everything was meant to wind people up [in Make It Big ]. I don't know why we had this great pleasure in… — George Michael Copy Share Image
Knowledge of the soul would unfailingly make us melancholy if the pleasures of expression did not keep us alert and of good… — Thomas E. Mann Copy Share Image
Fred Astaire was retired when he worked in 'The Pleasure of His Company.' They were lucky to get him to play the… — Debbie Reynolds Copy Share Image
I treat myself to a manicure/pedicure every week. I get my hair fixed every week. I don't think that's a guilty pleasure,… — Phaedra Parks Copy Share Image
Why shed tears that you must die? For if your past life has been one of enjoyment, and if all your pleasures… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
In our hedonistic age, the Slow movement has a marketing ace up its sleeve: it peddles pleasure. The central tenet of the… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
One of the key pleasures of receiving a letter is the act of holding and entering the envelope - a sort of… — Nick Bantock Copy Share Image
A downed animal is most certainly the object of a hunting trip, but it becomes an anticlimax when compared to the many… — Fred Bear Copy Share Image
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