We have more days to live through than pleasures. Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
If you go to a concert, you will notice, is it loud? Is the music fast? Is it predominately strings or brass?… — David Salle Copy Share Image
Selfishness does not mean only to do things for one's self. One may do things, affecting others, for his own pleasure and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands and all you can do is scratch it. — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
One of the great pleasures of working in Middle Earth is you get to be another being. — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
“They say though that we do more to avoid pain than we do to gain pleasure. So it is when the pain… — Bronnie Ware Copy Share Image
This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives… — William Bligh Copy Share Image
If there ever was a pursuit which stultified itself by its very conditions, it is the pursuit of pleasure as the all-sufficing… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them… — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
Turning to the crimson pavilion, beneath the filters of its carved lattices, illumination baffles sleep. Why does the moon bear grudge as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The children's lessons should provide material for their mental growth, should exercise the several powers of their minds, should furnish them with… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
There is room in the halls of pleasure for a large and lordly train, but one by one we must all file… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Pleasure is hard to come by, but pain is everywhere these days, I must learn to subsist on it. — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
What is greatly desired, but long deferred, gives little pleasure, when at length it is ours, for we have lived with it… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
It is impossible for someone to dispel his fears about the most important matters if he doesn't know the nature of the… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
At a certain fork in the road of automatization, Europeans chose to have more time, and they work far less than we… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The disappointments of life can never, any more than its pleasures, be estimated singly; and the healthiest and most agreeable of men… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
No matter how many pleasures Satan offers you, his ultimate intention is to ruin you. Your destruction is his highest priority. — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
I wish... that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The world suffers nothing from Christians but hates them because they reject its pleasures. — Justin Martyr Copy Share Image
Dopamine makes up less than one percent of the brain's neurotransmitters. It's a small portion. Dopamine is released when people are happy,… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
Alone-sex didn't count. It's like the difference between thinking to yourself or having a good conversation with someone--the pleasure is in the… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency.… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
