“Joy is like sex – it begins and ends. I want pleasure. I want to be contended, but happiness? I no longer… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
If I made records for my own pleasure, I would only record Charley Patton songs. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
It is a quite special secret pleasure how the people around us fail to realize what is really happening to them. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“too much explanation can take the pleasure out of any poetry. (Preface, vii)” — Harold G. Henderson Copy Share Image
Forget not that thy marriage, thy wealth, thy life are not for sense-pleasure, are not for thy individual personal happiness. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life. Consider pleasures as they… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit? — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The true Sovereign of the world, who moulds the world like soft wax, according to his pleasure, is he who lovingly sees… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I subscribe to National Geographic, Scientific American, Discover, and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
“For two thousand years or more man has been subjected to a systematic effort to transform him into an ascetic animal. He… — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
He tried to give his wife pleasure in little ways, because he had come to realize, after nearly two decades together, how… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For me, Lionel Messi is quite clearly the best player ever. It’s a pleasure to put myself against him and when I… — John Terry Copy Share Image
“I want to mark him permanently, brand him as mine. I grab my ankles to keep from grabbing him, digging my short,… — Cynthia Sax 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
The wise individual doesn't get too attached to any of life's pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it's… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you're having is immediate gratification pleasure, which… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The era of wild apples will soon be over. I wander through old orchards of great extent, now all gone to decay,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him, "A contest between us is very unequal, for… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less, Withdraws into its happiness; The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance… — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
A knife!" I yelled, still brandishing my pillow. "Jim, I command you to get me a gelding knife. If this guy wants… — Katie MacAlister Copy Share Image
He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure, a delight,… — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It gives me the same pleasure when someone else proves a good theorem as when I do it myself. — Edmund Landau Copy Share Image
It is always a pleasure to be directed by an actor because they know the scene from the actor's perspective, too. That's… — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
In America, you look at food as bad and guilty. In France, we love food and we enjoy food; food is pleasure. — Mireille Guiliano Copy Share Image
I have a tattoo on my arm that says, 'The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.' — Willie Cauley-Stein Copy Share Image
My guilty pleasure is bread pakodas and samosas, which I eat occasionally. — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these? Surely the heart that conceived it sought… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
There is little pleasure in the world that is true and sincere beside the pleasure of doing our duty and doing good. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Not writing the same kind of book over and over again is to me the real pleasure of what I do. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them in particular, what… — Christian Nestell Bovee 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