Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Perhaps everything lies in knowing what words to speak, what actions to perform, and in what order and rhythm; or else someone's… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I own your pleasure," I whispered into his mouth. "I'll take it if you won't give it to me. — Sylvia Day 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
Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much - and pleases me so much (when my… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
I see that you’ve had the non-pleasure of meeting my sister.Jordo, this is Rylann Pierce.” Jordan raised an eyebrow pointedly at Kyle.… — Julie James Copy Share Image
Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
A few months ago, I had the pleasure of actually visiting the Playboy Mansion. I saw the peacocks, fed grapes to the… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Some people get lots of pleasure; From books or from music or art; But boys seem to think it's fantastic; To just… — Giles Andreae Copy Share Image
The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
This idea of body is a simple superstition. It is superstition that makes us happy or unhappy. It is superstition caused by… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
STARING INTO THE ABYSS by Richard Thomas is an outstanding book, a grim tapestry of broken lives and shattered dreams, of dark… — Kealan Patrick Burke Copy Share Image
So Positive Psychology takes seriously the bright hope that if you find yourself stuck in the parking lot of life, with few… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
I take pleasure in the little things. Double cheeseburgers, those are good, the sky ten minutes before it rains,the moment your laugh… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
If gender is eradicated, so too is an important domain of pleasure for many people. And others have a strong sense of… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough. — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked… — Leo Tolstoy 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
I have these guilty pleasures, these failed films that don't work at all, but I'll watch them if they're on. Like 'The… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
Does the pursuit of truth give you as much pleasure as before? Surely it is not the knowing but the learning, not… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
All those who love thrillers will find in Michael Alexiades's first novel a source of great pleasure and satisfaction. It combines suspense… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or disguise, all… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Who ever lives looking for pleasure only, his senses uncontrolled, immoderate in his enjoyments, idle and weak, the tempter will certainly overcome… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If you let some time go by before considering work that you have done, you move toward a more objective position in… — Henry Wessel, Jr Copy Share Image
Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking. — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Did it ever strike you that goodness is not merely a beautiful thing, but by far the most beautiful thing in the… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
One will hope they will never have one of those moments, but of course, hope is a fruitless thing. You hope for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you are fully aligned with your soul it will be your pleasure, your joy to always move toward cooperation, toward sharing,… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size she is… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
