“Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgment, generally gives as much pain as pleasure. The” — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where… — Annie Smith Peck Copy Share Image
The farmer after sacrificing pleasure, taste, freedom, thought, love, to his work, turns out often a bankrupt, like the merchant.This result might… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
A plane is a guilty pleasure. I have one. It's a great luxury. I appreciate it. I couldn't do what I do.… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
Honor is a public enemy, and conscience a domestic, and he that would secure his pleasure, must pay a tribute to one… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
Englands genius filled all measureOf heart and soul, of strength and pleasure,Gave to the mind its emperor,And life was larger than before:Nor… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Hat-making is laborious and time-consuming. It's a very tactile medium, and you can develop the skills, but it's one of those things:… — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because... The change from trouble to comfort gives… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
As a chef I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist, I’m in the pleasure business. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
From my table inside I watch the glamorous women outside who are lunching on Spa Cobb salads without blue cheese or dressing.… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratification, to… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
The book tour has been really interesting and very gratifying. I have not book toured before. I've never had quite as much… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
Frankie Randall is a consummate performer. He is an exquisite jazz pianist and wonderful singer. I had the great pleasure to work… — Lainie Kazan Copy Share Image
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
A man can have sexual pleasure from a child as young as a baby. However, he should not penetrate; sodomising the child… — Ruhollah Khomeini Copy Share Image
We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me. — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
The ancients had a taste, let us say rather a passion, for the marvellous, which caused ... grouping together the lofty deeds… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
