If there is one pleasure on earth which surpasses all others, it is leaving a play before the end. I might perhaps… — Angela Thirkell Copy Share Image
The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things. — William Ames Copy Share Image
Together, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three!… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in rescinding from the number and sweetness of those… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Holiness is nothing else but the habitual and predominant devotion and dedication of soul, and body, and life, and all that we… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
The essence of Toryism is enjoyment?but as far as communicating and establishing your creed are concernedtrya little pleasure. The way to keep… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
To minimize my guilt at going to the pictures - to call this wanton pursuit of an effete pleasure by another name… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
“He said it with everything he did, every touch, every caress, every physical pleasure he bestowed upon me. Give it all to… — Kitty Thomas Copy Share Image
I have a sense that God is unfair and preferentially punishes his weak, his dumb, his fat, his lazy. I believe he… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I kissed her," he explained, aggrieved. "Mmm, yes, I had the dubious pleasure of witnessing that, ah-hem, overly public occurrence." Lyall sharpened… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
Pleasure is nought but virtue's gayer name-- I wrong her still, I rate her worth too low: Virtue the root, and pleasure… — Ayn Rand 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
To wash one's hair, make one's toilet, and put on scented robes; even if not a soul sees one, these preparations still… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more various our artificial necessities, the wider is our circle of pleasure; for all pleasure consists in obviating necessities as they… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
There's no way to explain, but all the pleasure is worth all the pain. — LeAnn Rimes Copy Share Image
The youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glory; glory is… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
“The philosophical study of beauty, art, and the splendor of nature nurtures a person’s fertile mind by exposing a person to the… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
If nobody ever offers an opinion or takes the slightest interest in one's production, one loses not only all pleasure in them,… — Fanny Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
She poured out Swann's tea, inquired "Lemon or cream?" and, on his answering "Cream, please," said to him with a laugh: "A… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement. Then there are others, and this dame was one of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Motherhood is an amazing feeling, and if you get to relive those special moments while working, it works as an icing on… — Kajol Copy Share Image
Ladies, be careful. Don't give a man sex just to keep him around, because it might just do the exact opposite. — Charlie Butcher Copy Share Image
Take too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel. — Horace Copy Share Image
We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Flowers and fruit are never combined in one place: it is impossible that teeth and delicacies should exist simultaneously. — Saib Tabrizi Copy Share Image
We are determined not to take as the aim of our life fame, profit, wealth, or sensual pleasure, nor to accumulate wealth… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Thouqh they never believe I could do it all alone...,throuqh the silent night_Sleepless moment_Hectic day_Occupied week...It's a pleasure God got my back. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The Sabbath day has become a day of pleasure, a day of boisterous conduct, a day in which the worship of God… — Joseph Fielding Smith Copy Share Image
Man today is fascinated by the possibility of buying, more, better, and especially, new things. He is consumption hungry... To buy the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Among all the modes by which love is brought into being, among all the agents which disseminate that blessed bane, there are… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Peculiar or not, it is my idea of pleasure. Why, why else do you lead this life you don't enjoy it? Don't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we strive for goals, relishing in the pleasure of circumstance, nothing is enjoyable, and life becomes purposeless. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Roses by the head, jasmine at the feet so appear the longings that have passed without being satisfied, not one of them… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
