But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
If you limit yourself to sexual pleasure it's narcissistic. You don't connect with the other, you take what pleasure you want from… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain, the enjoying of something I am in great trouble for till I have… — John Selden Copy Share Image
Writing's not always a pleasure to me, but if I'm not writing every other pleasure loses its savour. — John Braine Copy Share Image
Anyone who does anything for pleasure to indulge his selfish soul will surely burn in Hell. — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am going for a level of perfection that is only mine... Most of the pleasure is in getting the last little… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure. — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
Read, Read, and then Read some more. Always Read. Find the voices that speak most to YOU. This is your pleasure and… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
So sweet and delicious do I become, when I am in bed with a man who, I sense, loves and enjoys me,… — Veronica Franco Copy Share Image
Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are… — Plato Copy Share Image
I still believe that standing up for the truth of God is the greatest thing in the world. This is the end… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
When I do things my way, I exhaust pleasure very quickly. It is not that Christianity has failed to teach me how… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
While it can be pleasurable to move speedily through a work of fiction, there's a different sort of pleasure to be had… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Every man is of importance to himself, and, therefore, in his own opinion, to others; and, supposing the world already acquainted with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I had a very good sexual education. My mother was very advanced in that regard. She conveyed to me the sense of… — Gioconda Belli Copy Share Image
India is a place where one of the great pleasures for a foreigner is that you're constantly surprised. Everywhere you look is… — Wes Anderson Copy Share Image
It must be pointed out, however, that strictly speaking it is incorrect to talk of the dominance of the pleasure principle over… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The pleasure and the love of God for His creatures constitute the original state. His pleasure and love are the means by… — Abdelkader El Djezairi Copy Share Image
. . . this rage - I have never forgotten it - contained every anger, every revolt I had ever felt in… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“For me it's connection-the pleasure of an expansive, long-ranging dinner conversation with people who do all sorts of things and being able… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure. — Saint Bernard Copy Share Image
Who will in time present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain. — John Heywood Copy Share Image
Imagination is Reality Lite - a useful substitute when the real pleasure is inaccessible, too risky, or too much work. — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Dreams nourish the soul just as food nourishes the body. The pleasure of the search and of adventure feeds our dreams. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23 — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Where's the pleasure in bein' the winner if the loser ain't alive to know they've lost? — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I'm a simple cook, and there's a lot I don't eat. But food is important. It translates so easily into pleasure. — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight. — James Stewart Copy Share Image
Youth, health and freedom were meant to be enjoyed and I want to try every pleasure before I am too old to… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Marketing is all about providing information that will heighten someone's anticipated and real pleasure. — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you. — Horace Copy Share Image
Keeping records enhances the pleasure of the search and the chance of finding order and meaning in these events. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
We chase the reward, we get the reward and then we discover that the true reward is always the next reward. Buying… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
