Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
For God's sake, if you sin, take pleasure in it, and do it for the pleasure. — Gerald Gould Copy Share Image
Love makes the greatest pleasures and most sensitive misfortunes of life. — Madeleine de Scudery Copy Share Image
“When greed is enthroned, be it in a community or nation, ungodliness is celebrated at the altar of human pleasure.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
If you're unwilling to defer pleasure or endure some "pain" for now, are you likely to end up later deep in the… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself. — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
It is a fact that God wants to destroy every work of our flesh, but He never desires to destroy our personality.… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
The only break I ever took was to eat. That's all I did. Work, and then quickly eat something. It became my… — John Prescott Copy Share Image
Precision is, after all, not only a form of responsibility and a kind of pleasure, but an instrument of compassion. To be… — Marilyn Chandler McEntyre Copy Share Image
“I want to learn his body, find every pleasure it’s hiding. All this reverence and simple awe I feel when I touch… — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The Stones don't really need to do it for money, so they must get some kind of pleasure out of it. They're… — Mick Taylor Copy Share Image
. . . this life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we… — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
Deconstruction seems to offer a way out of the closure of knowledge. By inaugurating the open-ended indefiniteness of textuality-by thus 'placing in… — Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Copy Share Image
In real life during the last decade of the twentieth century, Rumpelstiltskin would probably get the queen's daughter. He would no doubt… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I had often heard Mentor say, that the voluptuous were never brave, and I now found by experience that it was true;… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it,… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
Love… we think about it,sing about it, dream about it, lose sleep worrying about it.. When we don't have it, we search… — Hemant Vaswani Copy Share Image
“Stop.” She covered her breast with her own hand. “That’s no’ a healer’s touch.” His smile was sin incarnate. “Ye’ve the right… — Connie Mason Copy Share Image
It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Marriage may restrict your activity, but it increases your pleasure. It permits sex without shame, fear, or guilt. — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Food is such a basic need, a fundamental right, and such a simple pleasure. — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
When I'm on a train and see an empty pitch, it gives me a certain pleasure that I can't quite describe. It's… — Patrick Marber Copy Share Image
The inclination of my life...has been to do things & make things which will give pleasure to people in new and amazing… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
To study and at times practice what one has learned, is this not a pleasure? — Confucius Copy Share Image
“Every book read with pleasure up to its end deserves a five star rating.” — Niovi Lyri Copy Share Image
Oh, the gallant fisher's life!It is the best of any;'T is full of pleasure, void of strife,And 't is beloved by many. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
It was a pleasure to share the court with Serena; she's such a champion. — Petra Kvitova Copy Share Image
All the other pleasures of life seem to wear out, but the pleasure of helping others in distress never does. — Julius Rosenwald Copy Share Image
You don't have to be a preacher to talk about what matters, and you don't have to drop the pleasures of style — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
What is paradise, but, a garden, an orchard of trees and herbs, full of pleasure and nothing there but delights. — William Lawson Copy Share Image
Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure. — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
Don't make a good sex confusing you with a real love, cause in the real love ,you get great pleasure without sex — Blackson Beats Copy Share Image
One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise… — Steven Strogatz Copy Share Image
