The years after 50 can be a time of great productivity, meaningful work, pleasure, creativity, and innovation. It's a huge opportunity. — Jane Pauley Copy Share Image
It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those not exclusively dependent… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
To learn and from time to time to apply what one has learned - isn't that a pleasure? — Confucius Copy Share Image
I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I… — Voltaire 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
It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the good of the group; an emotion that brings pleasure, pride,… — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defence of these uses… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
In images,... beauty was the agency that caused visual pleasure in the beholder; and any theory of images that was not grounded… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
Nothing in all the world is so good as the knowledge and love of Christ, and no pleasure that can be enjoyed… — Susan Warner Copy Share Image
Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Visiting is a pleasure; being visited is usually a mixed or ambivalent joy. ... The visitor can always go home; the visitee… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
I suspect anyone self-satisfied enough to refuse lawful pleasures: we are not sufficiently rich in our separate resources to reject the graces… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
To me, wearing glasses is no pleasure, but once I conceded that I simply couldn't properly judge distance without them, I began… — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
That was what stuck in the craws of all the good women of Deptford: Mrs Dempster had not been raped, as a… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Lastly, I would address one general admonition to all: that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Almost all men are over anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple… — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I suppose I got more praise for being able to draw things and paint things than I… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness.… — William Martin Copy Share Image
“Why don't you like getting close?' Marianne insisted. 'Is it because you might get hurt?' Owen shook his head. He still couldn't… — Andy Lane Copy Share Image
Sex endows the individual with a dumb and powerful instinct, which carries his body and soul continually towards another, makes it one… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
When GOD is our deepest pleasure we display Him as our highest treasure. — John Piper Copy Share Image
When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Ladies: The sexiest thing you can do for your man is make him bacon naked. — Ephrem Hardin Copy Share Image
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism. — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
Life's saving graces are love, pleasure, laughter ... wisdom, it seems, is for the Hereafter. — Michael R. Burch Copy Share Image
There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The King did not summon the Estates because he needed them, but out of his own pleasure. — Jacques Necker Copy Share Image
Pleasures don't last like the snow falls in the river, a moment white - then melts for ever. — Minette Walters Copy Share Image
No matter what the situation may be, I still take pleasure in witnessing the joy of others. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm not shy, not reclusive, not any of those things, but the idea of a day in front of me when I… — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
We poor creatures are born for man's pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials. — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
It doesn't take a lot to make me happy. I take pleasure from everything I do. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Somebody has inquired as to whether I will be going to the opening baseball game. I hope to have that pleasure. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“Scary to be vulnerable, to open your heart but, oh, the out of this world feeling as you savor the pleasure!” — Virginia Toole Copy Share Image
