“The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.” — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
I could bring you so much pleasure, erotic, erotic, put your hands all over my body. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege. — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image
One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them. — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The sexual drive is nothing but the motor memory of previously remembered pleasure. — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing. — Shmuel Yosef Agnon Copy Share Image
Art is the lens through which I experience the world. Art is the medium to present the human condition... love, fear, bewilderment,… — Alton Tobey Copy Share Image
As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of… — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some… — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The lessons we learned with pain leaves us with scars of the past and with life experience to talk about, but the… — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
A Daughter: The companion, the friend, and the confidant of her mother, and the object of a pleasure something like the love… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependant upon it. Even though I arrange for a pleasure;… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The pleasure of a good act is something to be remembered - not in order to feed our complacency but in order… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
To be a woman condemned to a wretched and disgraceful punishment is no impediment to beauty, but it is an insurmountable obstacle… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
The next day brought more visitors. Sarah was eating a simple luncheon with Charis, Ariel, and Guinevere and was experiencing for the… — Gerald Morris Copy Share Image
What really matters is the work. And what matters to me is doing the work. I'm not looking at the back end:… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
The most rapturous delights you have ever had - in the beauty of a landscape, or in the pleasure of food, or… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The only happy talkers are dandies who extract pleasure from the very perishability of their material and who would not be able… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence. — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
