Contempt for others, like masturbation, is best as a secret pleasure. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life! — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
No one likes rain but rain brings us pleasure for once pleasure's gone we learn what to treasure — Ace Antonio Hall Copy Share Image
The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it! — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
I don't think I ever played any sports recreationally for my own pleasure. I was bad at them from the start. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Sean Taylor is a wonderfully talented modern troubadour whose sincere, thoughtful songs pull you in. I've had the pleasure of sharing the… — Eric Bibb Copy Share Image
I am interested in most mythology. Celtic or Christian no more than anything else. I will admit to a pleasure and sense… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your people unable to choose… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death--what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
I intended to portray the joy, anger, sorrow and pleasure of our lives through four seasons and through the life of a… — Kim Ki-duk Copy Share Image
In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and in real life good people are dismally… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
To some men peace merely means the liberty to exploit other people without fear of retaliation or interference. To others peace means… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I have taught the long poem off and on for years. The more book-length poems I read and studied and taught the… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
Ah, many a one has started forth with hope and purpose high; Has fought throughout a weary life, and passed all pleasure… — George Arnold Copy Share Image
My favorite - my very favorite movie, which I suppose is a bit of a guilty pleasure in that it's like, you… — Caterina Scorsone Copy Share Image
Follow your heart, and your pleasure in art. Don’t do what you think is going to be making you money, or what… — Wayne White Copy Share Image
In order to understand what is meant by the word 'brain' as it is used by neuroscientists, we must bear in mind… — John Zachary Young Copy Share Image
Donna E. Smyth - adventures with words; she is always doing something new and unique. Beginning with her visceral morality, her stories… — George Elliott Clarke Copy Share Image
I have lived large parts of my life in wonderful circumstances that I utterly failed to appreciate. Reasons to be happy were… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
All of my pleasures are guilty, but that's just the way I'm wired. — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
