“Don’t spend your money on luxuries. Save it and secure a safe future. Don’t crave for quick satisfaction.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“They had set forth to rid their town of evil and had managed to rid it of pleasure as well.” — Angel Cox Copy Share Image
The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whatever your pleasure, I can facilitate. You need weed, you need meth - hey, you need Prozac, I'm your man. I know… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
People whose integrity has not been damaged in childhood, who were protected, respected, and treated with honesty by their parents, will be-both… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Each man must take the material that he finds at hand, see that in it there are the big truths of life,… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
The subtle performances of the leads, the remarkable Irrfan Khan and the engaging Nimrat Kaur, make 'The Lunchbox' a pleasure to watch. — Leonard Maltin Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more real, or concern us more, than our own sentiments of pleasure and uneasiness; and if these be favourable… — David Hume Copy Share Image
An immoderate fondness for dress, for pleasure, and for sway, are the passions of savages; the passions that occupy those uncivilized beings… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs is a phenomena which is at once disgusting and… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
At most, I may write when I am disturbed by something. I have recently discovered the pleasure of finding written answers to… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
Let all our employment be to know GOD: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him. And as… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
Enjoy the present, bid defiance to the future, laugh at all those reasonable beings who exercise their reason to avoid the misfortunes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Christ [is] the very essence of all delights and pleasures, the very soul and substance of them. As all the rivers are… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
I think Jesus is saying, Look, you guys are running around like monkeys trying to get people to clap, but people are… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Call not that man wretched, who whatever else he suffers as to pain inflicted, or pleasure denied, has a child for whom… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I always tell people go see something you don't know about. Something you didn't read a ton about on the internet. Something… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To confound the tyranny of man there should exist for a century a third sex, both male and female, and stronger than… — Charles Fourier Copy Share Image
For some obscure reason, some authorities seem bent on making the drinking of wine a ritual more complicated than chess. They have… — Craig Claiborne Copy Share Image
There was about all the Romans a heroic tone peculiar to ancient life. Their virtues were great and noble, and these virtues… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Economy is a way of spending money without getting any pleasure out of it. — Armand Salacrou Copy Share Image
A few hundred years ago, perhaps 85 or even 90 percent of humanity lived below a standard of living that today only… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in… — Jude Morgan Copy Share Image
Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press knows that, on the whole, there is… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
PLEASURE and pain are undoubtedly the ultimate objects of the calculus of economics. To satisfy our wants to the utmost with the… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Cycling is so hard, the suffering is so intense, that it’s absolutely cleansing. The pain is so deep and strong that a… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
Such humble talents as God had given me I will endeavour to put to their greatest use; if I am able to… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
It is no wonder if, under the pressure of these possibilities of suffering, men are accustomed to moderate their claims to happiness… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image