“Any innocent pleasure is a real good: there are not so many of them.” — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures. — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
A novel should tell a story, be a pleasure to read, and at the same time it should be thought-provoking, even a… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
For God's sake, if you sin, take pleasure in it, and do it for the pleasure. — Gerald Gould Copy Share Image
To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
“When greed is enthroned, be it in a community or nation, ungodliness is celebrated at the altar of human pleasure.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The most appealing part is the feeling of learning something true - the pleasure of a truth. For me, that's mostly found… — Eyvind Kang Copy Share Image
I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting… — William Styron Copy Share Image
The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Hip Hop Sisters is going strong. Our signature initiative is #EducateOurMen, whereby we have the pleasure, the enjoyment, as well as having… — MC Lyte Copy Share Image
Surfing is an individual expression of one's own worth and one's own ability to participate directly with nature. And what makes it… — Otis Chandler Copy Share Image
One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realizing this a mon should take no pleasure in the respect of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Real success comes in small portions day by day. You need to take pleasure in life's daily little treasures. It is the… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
It is true that one was not allowed at the time to really ask, what would lead people to do this, from… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I like the Cyclostyle ink; it is so inky. I do not think there is anyone who takes quite such a fierce… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only justifiable stopping place for for the expansion of altruism is the point at which all whose welfare can be affected… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Anti-Americanism is as old as the Republic--a historical constant, which is only remotely related to specific American behavior. So what is new?… — Josef Joffe Copy Share Image
The art of decoration requires the most sophisticated and self-indulgent skills. Its aim has always been to sate the senses as gloriously… — Ada Louise Huxtable 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
If we don't watch out, the pleasure o be gained from the discriminating enjoyment of food will be lost. It may not… — Benoite Groult Copy Share Image
“A blast of whooshing pleasure swept through me and I fell over the other side, into sweet currents of relaxing little judders.… — Sarah Michelle Lynch Copy Share Image
Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
just because something is fun doesn't mean it's a waste of time. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
