Whatever good you would do out of fear of punishment, or hope of reward hereafter, the Atheist would do simply because it… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“Why had peace given place so soon to turmoil? To two separate solitudes? Because peace had been without thought? Without...integrity? How could… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Wine is not just an object of pleasure, but an object of knowledge; and the pleasure depends on the knowledge. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The magical descriptions of Italy and hilarious observations about love, travel, natives and foreigners in Love in Idleness are but a few… — Jane Hamilton Copy Share Image
Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure. — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
Good friends find pleasure in one another's company. Let us know pleasure in the company of our best Friend, a Friend who… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
What demon is our god? What name subsumes That act external to our sleeping selves? Not pleasure - it is much too… — J. V. Cunningham Copy Share Image
Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, There's no place like home. — John Howard Payne Copy Share Image
The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Innocent pleasures in moderation can provide relaxation for the body and mind and can foster family and other relationships. But pleasure, per… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Life is a straight drink - straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent. — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It's my pleasure and honor to be here fighting on HBO and in the United States. — Jan Zaveck Copy Share Image
Our lives are songs; God write the words And we set them to music at pleasure; And the song grows glad, or… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Writing style is something is a consequence of who you are. I think that I had a certain propensity for a style… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
