Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world. — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past… — Martial Copy Share Image
The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
all pleasures should be taken in great leisure and are worth going into in detail; love is not like eating a quick… — Mae West Copy Share Image
“Challenges will come; that is inevitable. But they can’t easily destroy your future than your own appetite.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire is not dependent upon taste or pleasure, but is founded on the immutable… — August Bournonville Copy Share Image
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The moment I stopped spending so much time chasing the big pleasure of life. I began to enjoy the little ones, like… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
You remember my ideal cat has always a huge rat in its mouth, just going out of sight - though going out… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
If the mind is wearied by study, or the body worn with sickness, It is well to lie fallow for a while,… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
Idleness, ennui, noise, mischief, riot, and a nameless train of mistaken notions of pleasure, are often classed, in a young man's mind,… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In these days people take up with each other and drop each other too easily. Pleasure is practiced like a sport, and… — Jeanne Moreau Copy Share Image
I have never been loved enough to gain the desire of reproducing a being in the image of my lover and I… — Rachilde Copy Share Image
Faith, whereby especially Christ rules, sets the soul so high that it looks down on all other things as far below, as… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
God has surely promised His grace to the humbled: that is, to those who mourn over and despair of themselves. But a… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
If Henry James were still with us, he'd not only approve of Paris, He Said, he could have written it himself, though… — Rosellen Brown Copy Share Image
“Is there such a thing as too much pleasure? When Simon imagines the bathhouses, he thinks of a carnival of gluttony, an… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
As the malicious disposition of mankind is too well known, and the cruel pleasure which they take in destroying the reputation of… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I believe in the spiritual warfare. There are people who pick sides. The lord of this world is Satan. You can do… — Stephen Baldwin Copy Share Image
One of the most delightful things about gardening is the freemasonry it gives with other gardeners, and the interest and pleasure all… — Margery Fish Copy Share Image
I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do. — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
