Among the numerous pleasures of Vienna the hotel evenings are famous. During supper Strauss or Lanner play waltzes...After every waltz they get… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
Immaturity means self-centeredness, inability to compromise, to rise above hurt feelings, to postpone immediate pleasures in favor of future benefits, or to… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
Well, everybody faces the fact there really aren't many records stores around to just go and browse. Maybe browse online, yet that… — Billy Gibbons Copy Share Image
Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the greatest pleasures I get from my measly professional career is confusing people. "Wait - he beats women and seems… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of temptation to disarm your better senses. Throughout the ages good people surrendered their honor for the empty… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
You little know what you have done, when you have first broke the bounds of modesty; you have set open the door… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
All the gifts and talents we have are from God, but they are also for God...for His glory and for His pleasure.… — Amari Cooper Copy Share Image
The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion. — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
Oh, Liberty! thou goddess heavenly bright! Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight! Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign, And smiling plenty… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it. — Mignon McLaughlin 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
If men are in a state in which they find it hard to be weaned from their own ways and choose rather… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Watercolour is probably the most satisfying of all mediums. Although difficult in the beginning, after practice its mysteries will unfold, providing the… — Robert A. Lovett Copy Share Image
Most of the pleasure of making a book would go if it held nothing to be shared by other people. I would… — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
If rich men would remember that shrouds have no pockets, they would, while living, share their wealth with their children, and give… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
“At best Americans give but a limited attention to history. Too much happens too rapidly, and before we can evaluate it, or… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
It sometimes happens that pleasure blows anywhere it damn well chooses. — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
Christianity cannot erase man's need for pleasure, nor can it eradicate the various sources of pleasure. What it can do, however, and… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
The pleasure of a good act is something to be remembered - not in order to feed our complacency but in order… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The delightful study of the Psalms has yielded me boundless profit and ever-growing pleasure; common gratitude constrains me to communicate to others… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Venerate four characters: the sanguine who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric who has subdued passion and pride;… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
i love playing and chatting with children...feeding and putting them to bed with a little story, and being away from the family… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times. I certainly enjoy life and get pleasure sometimes in childish things. — Brian Baumgartner Copy Share Image
Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
Sleep my little baby-oh Sleep until you waken When you wake you'll see the world If I'm not mistaken... Kiss a lover… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When you're comfortable and secure, it's not enough. The mind doesn't stop there because it has to continue to focus itself as… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Self-denial is taught much better by inspiring the love of our neighbor, than by the prohibition of innocent comforts and pleasures. Spirituality… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
“too much explanation can take the pleasure out of any poetry. (Preface, vii)” — Harold G. Henderson Copy Share Image
Feed him ye must, whose food fills you. And that this pleasure is like raine, Not sent ye for to drowne your… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
