Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same… — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
“I have a right to get pleasure out of life: and I will get it, cost what it may.” “Then you will… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Everything that is full of life loves change, for the characteristic of life is movement toward a new goal and urges toward… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
When good-natured people leave us we look forward with extra pleasure to their return. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Samsaric pleasures are like salt water, the more we indulge, the more we crave. — Geshe Sonam Copy Share Image
It was a pleasure, Enna, Finn, tree rat." "Did she just call you tree rat? — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Pleasure should be pursued just for supporting the body and not for gratifying it. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do have pleasure when I'm writing. I mean, I'm aware of pleasure. And sometimes I make myself laugh, with a joke… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle -… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated with design. I realized early that I had no talent in that direction, but I love talking with architects and… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
“What is not possible is to combine the pursuit of pleasure and the enjoyment of comfort with the characteristic pleasures of a… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
One of my regrets would be that I will never again have the pleasure of sneaking into a cafe, any cafe I… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In all places where there is a Summer and a Winter, and where your Gardens of pleasure are sometimes clothed with their… — John Worlidge Copy Share Image
Girls would say: "I have a boyfriend for that." So in addition to putting their pleasure literally into someone else's hands -… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
People are in the habit of classifying life’s activities into those which are mundane and those which are religious. Remember, though, only… — Khurram Murad Copy Share Image
When a child is born, I once explained to the kids, some dads lay down bottles of wine for them that will… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
The person who appreciates a great work of art has the feeling that the work grows in him as he becomes involved… — Silvano Arieti Copy Share Image
If I am a son of God, nothing but God will satisfy my soul; no amount of comfort, no amount of ease,… — Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy Copy Share Image
There is also somehow the idea that this gay thing is all just about indulgence in carnal pleasure. When I was twenty… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I look at my yesterdays for months past, and find them as good a lot of yesterdays as anybody might want. I… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Pleasures seem solid in their pursuit; but are mere clouds in the enjoyment. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
“The mind confines our outlooks to a mere bundles of desires, pleasures, prejudices, and fears to safeguard the body it inhabits.” — Rajeev Kurapati Copy Share Image
Real are the dreams of gods, and soothly pass their pleasures in a long immortal dream. — John Keats Copy Share Image
AZRAEL: No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater... than central air. — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
Spite of all modesty, a man must own a pleasure in the hearing of his praise. — George Farquhar Copy Share Image
“being seduced is a pleasure in itself. One yields for the sake of yielding.” — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For me, the greatest pleasure is when you make something, and everyone argues about it. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“Seeing him somewhere was always a pleasure, like taking a drink of water.” — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I wasted my substance, I know I did, on riotous living, so I did, but there's nothing on record to show I… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
