We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures. — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
just because something is fun doesn't mean it's a waste of time. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
The pleasure that is granted to me from a sense of duty ceases to be a pleasure at all. — Ovid Copy Share Image
“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you can not do.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger it turns and faces the… — Corrie Ten Boom Copy Share Image
Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge. — Plato Copy Share Image
Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved ... — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
My guilty pleasure is elastic-waisted pants. And reruns of shows Ive already seen 400 times on TV. — Ross Mathews Copy Share Image
It's going to be an immense pleasure to work with Jose Mourinho, listen to him and learn from him. — Willian Copy Share Image
Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory… — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
Cats always made up to the people who hated them the most. Depending on how you chose to look at it, it… — Barbara Mertz Copy Share Image
In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for… — Heather Donahue Copy Share Image
For all men have but a little while to live and none knows his fate thereafter. So that a man possesses nothing… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage,… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
You cannot study Pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a… — Compay Segundo Copy Share Image
Seeking the pleasure of conjugality without a willingness to assume the responsibilities of rearing a family is one of the onslaughts that… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
I remember when my mother taught me about my menstrual cycle and pregnancy. She, like millions of other mothers before and since,… — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been built up… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I have received your letter of the 6th, with the eloquent discourse delivered at the consecration of the Jewish Synagogue. Having ever… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I want to have a lasting experience with God. Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this world, but then… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
...the tragedy of consumerism: one acquires more and more things without taking the time to ever see and know them, and thus… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
When I remember thee in days to come, O Jerusalem, it will not be with pleasure. The musty deposits of 2,000 years… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
I appreciate the Surreal Life. I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love… — Vince Neil Copy Share Image
Playing in the Champions League ought to be a pleasure and a joy. — Massimiliano Allegri Copy Share Image
Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“There is no pleasure in the world to match the giddiness of revenge.” — John Beachem Copy Share Image
