Maturity is the willingness to pass up immediate pleasure in favor of the long-term gain. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas good folk, they… — Jane Grey Copy Share Image
Happiness that depends mainly on physical pleasure is unstable; one day it's there, the next day it may not be. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Belief is as necessary to the soul as pleasures are necessary to the body. — Elsa Schiaparelli Copy Share Image
A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction. — Alaa Al Aswany Copy Share Image
The expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
I realized the other day that about the only author I genuinely read for pure pleasure is one of the worst authors… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“For once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I admit that invective is one of my pleasures. This only brings me problems in life, but that's it. I attack, I… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
If I can't enjoy the full and total happiness of love, then I want to drain its torments, its tortures to the… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
For to sit in a room full of books, and remember the stories they told you, and to know precisely where each… — Sting Copy Share Image
Any intelligent woman would have made a dignified retreat, but this was New Jersey, where dignity always runs a poor second to… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
I think we all have a similar philosophy about comedy and comic performance which is that it's at its best when you… — Mathew Baynton Copy Share Image
The process of writing a novel is getting to know more about the novel until you know everything about it. And it's… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Two kinds of people live a life without care: one kind are extremely worthy of praise, the other kind are extremely worthy… — Ibn Hazm Copy Share Image
hen we mourn those who die young — those who have been robbed of time — we weep for lost joys. We… — Josephine Hart Copy Share Image
However much we may feel for the misery of someone close to us, we always act with some artificiality in their presence.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those that we had regarded as not being lived… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals for a promise of the fullest allowance of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I listen to music every day for study reasons, and I confess that I have very little knowledge of what is going… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
When I think back about my immediate reaction to that redheads girl, it seems to spring from an appreciation of natural beauty.… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Be not the slave of your moods, but their master. But if you are so angry, so depressed and so sore that… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations. — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
