When it comes to art you can't please everybody but if you please yourself then take pleasure in that. — Cise Star Copy Share Image
The cuisine, it is all about putting generosity before rigour and pleasure before lucidity. — Pierre Gagnaire Copy Share Image
The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work. — Jason Alexander Copy Share Image
Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory? — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
“Men may thus have several sorts of pleasures. The true pleasure is that for which they give up another.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga. — Sivananda Copy Share Image
Now among the other things proper to recreate man and give him pleasure, music is either the first or one of the… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I'm a person who is only invested in the pleasures and enjoyments of life. All the rest is left to the men.… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
My mind spun for a second before it drifted, and in that second I knew that of all pleasures a drink of… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
Each one of us is left to choose our own quality of life and take pleasure where we find it with the… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Do you see, Solange, that you are the only woman in my world? The one woman who can choose life or death… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
Does is make the dragon happy?" Matt asked. "Does is make the dragon happy?" echoed Tam Lin. "Why, I never thought of… — Nancy Farmer Copy Share Image
Gardening is peaceful, yet there is a great element of failure. It's the perfect metaphor for life -- a lot of pleasure,… — Jane Kaczmarek Copy Share Image
What greater delight and wonder can there be than to leave the straight lines of personality and deviate into these footpaths that… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
The fatuous idea that a person can be holy by himself denies God the pleasure of saving sinners. God must therefore first… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
These are very unskillful comparisons to represent so precious a thing, but I am not clever enough to think out any more:… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The truth we have to face about the world we live in is that it's driven by profit, and contradictions and doubts… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Kinky is using a feather. Perverted is using the whole chicken. Sex is more than an act of pleasure, its' the ability… — Joanne Woodward Copy Share Image
But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The ancients had a taste, let us say rather a passion, for the marvellous, which caused ... grouping together the lofty deeds… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
You are what you decide you want to be. You can be some horrible, bitter person who's not a pleasure to be… — Paul Young Copy Share Image
My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love. — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task. — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The stoic contemplates fallen leaves; the epicure rakes them into a loveseat.” — Bauvard Copy Share Image
It is only the inexperienced and thoughtless who find pleasure in killing fish for the mere sake of killing them. No sportsman… — William Cowper Prime Copy Share Image
There are some elements in life - above all, sexual pleasure - about which it isn't necessary to have a position. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
It's a pleasure to play my sister because everything I've accused her of my whole life, I can now re-enact before her… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Depending on where you live, cooking, sex and pooping are either 3 of life's pleasures or what kills you — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure. — William Congreve Copy Share Image