There is little pleasure in the world that is true and sincere beside the pleasure of doing our duty and doing good. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Not writing the same kind of book over and over again is to me the real pleasure of what I do. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I have a tattoo on my arm that says, 'The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.' — Willie Cauley-Stein Copy Share Image
My guilty pleasure is bread pakodas and samosas, which I eat occasionally. — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
In America, you look at food as bad and guilty. In France, we love food and we enjoy food; food is pleasure. — Mireille Guiliano Copy Share Image
The true Sovereign of the world, who moulds the world like soft wax, according to his pleasure, is he who lovingly sees… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
God’s will and desire—His pleasure—is that we love Him. We cannot please God unless we love Him. We cannot love Him unless… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
Let us then ascribe the whole work of grace to the pleasure of God's Will. God did not choose us because we… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
What a pleasure to have children in Heaven and to watch them grow and develop without the Devil and all his imps… — David Berg Copy Share Image
Beauty commonly produces love, but cleanliness preserves it. Age itself is not unamiable while it is preserved clean and unsullied; like a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I want to speak, show, see, and hear outrageously astute questions and comments. I want to be on the sides of pleasure… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
Reading was such an enrichment of my life. And it was that pleasure that I had as a very young reader probably… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
There is always going to be pain. There is always going to be pleasure. But what is not always going to be… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The transience of human feeling is nothing short of ludicrous. My mercurial fluctuations in the course of a single evening made me… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Nothing in all the vast universe can come to pass otherwise than God has eternally purposed. Here is a foundation of faith.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If a picture, which is but a mute representation of an object, can give such pleasure, what cannot letters inspire? They have… — Heloise Copy Share Image
Apropos, is not the Scotch phrase 'Auld Lang Syne' exceedingly expressive? I shall give you the verses on the other sheet. The… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
“Pleasure and pain are immediate; knowledge, retrospective. A steel ball, suspended on a string, smacks into its brothers and nothing happens: no… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle, but to procreate and bring up children, to support… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I believe that earning your living doing something you enjoy is one of the very best ways to nourish yourself. But even… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
It gives me the same pleasure when someone else proves a good theorem as when I do it myself. — Edmund Landau Copy Share Image
It is always a pleasure to be directed by an actor because they know the scene from the actor's perspective, too. That's… — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
It is a quite special secret pleasure how the people around us fail to realize what is really happening to them. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“too much explanation can take the pleasure out of any poetry. (Preface, vii)” — Harold G. Henderson Copy Share Image
Forget not that thy marriage, thy wealth, thy life are not for sense-pleasure, are not for thy individual personal happiness. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life. Consider pleasures as they… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit? — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
If I made records for my own pleasure, I would only record Charley Patton songs. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“Joy is like sex – it begins and ends. I want pleasure. I want to be contended, but happiness? I no longer… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
the bad is more easily perceived than the good. A fresh lobster does not give such pleasure to the consumer as a… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
If all our wishes were gratified, most of our pleasures would be destroyed. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Money can make just pleasure , it can't make happiness but .. if ya couldn't get real happiness right away .. pleasure… — Cynthia Koko Copy Share Image
A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
