Adventurous men enjoy shipwrecks, mutinies, earthquakes, conflagrations, and all kinds of unpleasant experiences. They say to themselves, for example, 'So this is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Both Left and Right take pleasure in mildly persecuting those who fail to meet their civic ideals. — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on Earth! I care not if I never raise my voice again for… — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image
I go to work as others rush to see their mistresses, and when I leave, I take back with me to my… — Eugene Delacroix 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
Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence. — David Hume Copy Share Image
This book is unique. I know of no other which so artfully tackles two of the greatest mysteries of modern science, quantum… — George Greenstein Copy Share Image
In the sex education process in schools, the one thing that they teach about is how to get pregnant and how to… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
Is there any pleasure in anger? Yes, if the fire of my anger appeases the ashes of my friends. — Virgil 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
Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The flowers, the gorgeous, mystic multi-coloured flowers are not the flowers of life, but people, yes people are the true flowers of… — Lord Buckley Copy Share Image
If you see in sports at a super high level, people get hurt or have injuries when there isn't that pleasure, the… — David Belle Copy Share Image
The things that brought me the most comfort now were too small to list. Raspberries in cream. Sparrows with cocked heads. Shadows… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
There is a plain distinction to be made betwixt pleasure and happiness. For tho' there can be no happiness without pleasure--yet the… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Sophie," he said, and when she gave him a stern look, he took a hasty swig of the posset. “Miss Collins. I… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Do not let a day go by without taking some time for yourself - some time you spend in pure pleasure, as… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
Working from nine till five every day at something that gives you no pleasure just so that, after thirty years, you can… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Sex and love they choose the different paths. Love always leads to devotion, sacrifice, and dedication, which are forms of insanity and… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Any child who reads widely, often and for pleasure will inevitably make comparisons between what they're reading, why they're reading and how… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
“All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance is called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The art of being agreeable frequently miscarries through the ambition which accompanies it. Wit, learning, wisdom,--what can more effectually conduce to the… — Richard Cumberland Copy Share Image
Honey comes out of the air At early dawn the leaves of trees are found bedewed with honey. Whether this is the… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow? — Rumi Copy Share Image
God has revealed to me that only the Paramatman, whom the Vedas describe as the Pure Soul, is as immutable as Mount… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are all environmentalists now, but we are not all planetists. An environmentalist realizes that nature has its pleasures and deserves respect.… — William Safire Copy Share Image
Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne.… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
By the law of nature, there is no pleasure in suffering; but divine love, when it reigns in a heart, makes it… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
Carefully purify your conscience from daily faults; suffer no sin to dwell in your heart; small as it may seem, it obscures… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
There's only one reason for my whole life, and that's art. Nothing else counts; nothing else gives me pleasure; nothing else gives… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
The slot machines sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated. — Frank Scoblete Copy Share Image
