Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
I like mixing or combining hobby and pleasure with work and have-tos. — Jose Gonzalez Copy Share Image
The ideal hole (course) is surely one that affords the greatest pleasure to the greatest number. — Alister MacKenzie Copy Share Image
For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
The pains and pleasures of the body, howsoever important to ourselves, are an indelicate subject of conversation — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I long to be in the midst of the children, and have more pleasure in their little follies than in the wisdom… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Do I have the right to experience pleasure and peace? If so, what would bring me pleasure and peace?” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Sex wasn't God's big mistake. Judging against sex was humanity's big mistake. Pleasure is as divine as any cathedral, any temple. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
If usually the "present age" is no very long time, still, at our pleasure, or in the service of some such unity… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
I don't really have guilty pleasures. Anything musically that I fully, fully believe, is good no matter who the artist is, no… — Solange Knowles Copy Share Image
'The Canon' is a film podcast that also has much in common with books podcast 'Backlisted.' Both suggest you can get a… — David Hepworth Copy Share Image
HOLY, HOLY, HOLY Thou are worthy, O Lord and our God, the Holy One, to receive the glory and the honour and… — Lancelot Andrewes Copy Share Image
A love of reading encompasses the whole of life: information, knowledge, insight and understanding, pleasure; the power to think, to select, to… — Frances Clarke Sayers Copy Share Image
The writer has to make pleasure for the reader - which, I think, is done by taking one's character's seriously and taking… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
There's a certain pleasure of the life of the mind that cannot be denied. There's a certain pleasure about being around people… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The really important questions in human life are hardly touched upon by psychologists. Do liars come to believe their own lies? Is… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
Both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporary suffering, 'No… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. but to move an audience in such a… — Alicia Markova Copy Share Image
Knowledge is praised and desired by multitudes whom her charms could never rouse from the couch of sloth; whom the faintest invitation… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For money you can have everything it is said. No, that is not true. You can buy food, but not appetite; medicine,… — Arne Garborg Copy Share Image
You get work however you get work, but keep people keep working in a freelance world (and more and more of todays… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Bedding her could be anything from tenderness to riot, but to take her when she was a bit the worse for drink… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant; a marriage of interest, easy; and a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure. — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
