The trouble with poetry is it's often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
You probably think that being a guest in your aunt's house I would hesitate to butter you all over the front lawn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and likewise pain. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
If I'm in a relationship, I'm 1,000% in it. I love doing things for them and surprising them. And that's just something… — Josh Henderson Copy Share Image
There's a musicologist named Peter van der Merwe whose theory is that the blues generates tune families, and that their similarity to… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
I have an inability to relax. I try to make every day a work day. I get pleasure from work... I try… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
For me, the only type of guilty pleasure fun that I have in terms of my career is I act once in… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
When I'm depressed and I feel low thinking that good movies are not made any more, then I put on his movies… — Geraldine Chaplin Copy Share Image
Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Work done for the Self gives no bondage. Neither desire pleasure nor fear pain from work. It is the mind and body… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It was my duty to have loved the highest; It surely was my profit had I known: It would have been my… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
I had always been considered such a nonentity where human relations were concerned that the idea that I might have an influence,… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
To be motivated to sit at home and study, instead of going out and playing, children need a sense of themselves over… — Stanley Greenspan Copy Share Image
May your divinity, Lord, take pleasure in me and lead me above the world to be with you. — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers… — Moliere Copy Share Image
I am proud of all my ancestresses. They showed us that it's possible to do great things and still live a happy,… — Maria Rodale Copy Share Image
Game, noun: Any unserious occupation designed for the relaxation of busy people and the distraction of idle ones. It's used to take… — Etienne Bonnot de Condillac Copy Share Image
If you give your soul up to anything earthly, whether it be the wealth, or the honours, or the pleasures of this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The great majority of men are but tangled skeins, imperfect keyboards, so many specimens of restless or stagnant chaos--and what makes their… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Society is the true sphere of human virtue. In social, active life, difficulties will perpetually be met with; restraints of many kinds… — Elizabeth Carter Copy Share Image
