“There was nothing, it seemed, that grew stale so soon as pleasure.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Weird how we're programmed to get pleasure from destroying ourselves.” — Jeff Zentner Copy Share Image
To love pleasure takes little. To love truly takes a hero who can manage his own fear. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The exercise of all the senses is as intense pleasure, as anyone will find, who recovers the use of one after being… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I don't like my voice, and I don't enjoy my singing voice; I do what I do to bring pleasure and diversion… — Romeo Santos Copy Share Image
Living with and studying good paintings offers greater interest, variety and satisfaction than any other pleasure known to man. — Albert C. Barnes Copy Share Image
Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly. — Pierre Bonnard Copy Share Image
...service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Why do I write? From selfishness. Because this state of liquefied, complex concentration, however faintly and dimly I'm able to perceive it,… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution… — Socrates Copy Share Image
In this regard, pleasure is an event; happiness is a process. Pleasure is an end point; happiness is the journey. Pleasure is… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
In everyage and country, the wiser, or at least the stronger, ofthetwosexes, hasusurped thepowers ofthe state, and confined the other to the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
A gastronomer who is not an environmentalis t is just stupid. Whereas an environmentalis t who is not a gastronomer is sad.… — Carlo Petrini Copy Share Image
Sex for pleasure, for fun, or even for building relationships is completely absent from our national conversation. Yet taking the joy out… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
I don't play any role; I just play golf. I love the competition. For me, the pleasure begins on Thursday morning when… — Laura Davies Copy Share Image
We may well be the ones Proverbs warns when it reminds us: "Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value the one… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Not one man has ever sacrificed for his Lord without being richly repaid. If the cross is only contrasted with earthly pleasures… — Walter J Chantry Copy Share Image
[Some] people really expect the passion of love to fill and gratify every need of life, whereas nature only intended that it… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. Hear the music of voices, the song of birds, the mighty… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
By the duty to be happy, I thus refer to the ideology... that urges us to evaluate everything in terms of pleasure… — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share Image
Our homes need to be more Christ-centered. We should spend more time at the temple and less time in the pursuit of… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
I believe that man was created to enjoy himself, indeed, that he can claim it as his legitimate right. In fact, as… — Kafu Nagai Copy Share Image
If we confine ourselves to a general and distant reflection on the ills of human life, that can have no effect to… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image