All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind that only pleases the sight but does not captivate the… — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Challenges will come; that is inevitable. But they can’t easily destroy your future than your own appetite.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire is not dependent upon taste or pleasure, but is founded on the immutable… — August Bournonville Copy Share Image
The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
all pleasures should be taken in great leisure and are worth going into in detail; love is not like eating a quick… — Mae West Copy Share Image
Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world. — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
Sigmund Freud already discovered that suffering gives us pleasure - in a strange masochistic way. The tyranny of choice exploits that weakness.… — Renata Salecl Copy Share Image
Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine -… — John Keats Copy Share Image
It was a pleasure to work with Destiny's Child in the beginning of their career. Working in the studio with Beyonce was… — Chris Stokes Copy Share Image
moral indignation is a pleasure, often the only pleasure, in many lives. It's also one of the few pleasures people feel obliged… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
It may be that true happiness lies in the conviction that one has irremediably lost happiness. Then we can begin to move… — Maria Luisa Bombal Copy Share Image
Nobody has ever written as many enjoyable, fun-to-read crime novels as Agatha Christie. It's all about the storytelling and the pleasure of… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
There is psychological pleasure in this takeoff, too, for the swiftness of the plane’s ascent is an exemplary symbol of transformation. The… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Does the pursuit of truth give you as much pleasure as before? Surely it is not the knowing but the learning, not… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Unless a woman has a decided pleasure and facility in teaching, an honest knowledge of everything she professes to impart, a liking… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
So I have no grounds to complain; on the contrary, writers should consider the condition of permanent controversiality to be invigorating, part… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It has been said that in the New Testament doctrine is grace; and ethics is gratitude; and something is wrong with any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past… — Martial Copy Share Image
What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Any pleasure gained by means other than mental control weakens the body. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to… — Camille Claudel Copy Share Image
I do not wish to be somebody's convenience, I prefer to be someone's pleasure! — Shahab Aftab Copy Share Image
Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in. — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Every human activity, except sin, can be done for God's pleasure, if you do it with an attitude of praise. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
The bands and the roadies, love 'em and leave 'em. It's pleasure to try 'em, but trouble to keep 'em. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice. — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
Venice is not only a city of fantasy and freedom. It is also a city of joy and pleasure. — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure. — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
If a site is done with pleasure and a fun attitude, it's a great way to communicate with your fans. — Christopher Lambert Copy Share Image
A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing. — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
