People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives. — Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks Copy Share Image
Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
If the pleasures we seek are not permanent, then how important are they? — Colin Beavan Copy Share Image
The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Sun lighting a child's hair. A friend's embrace. Slow dancing in a safe and quiet place. The pleasures of an ordinary life. — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I am happy because I want nothing from anyone. I do not care for money. Decorations, titles or distinctions mean nothing to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The rigour of science requires that we distinguish well the undraped figure of Nature itself from the gay-coloured vesture with which we… — Heinrich Hertz Copy Share Image
The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth, Life's paradise, great princess, the soul's quiet, Sinews of concord, earthly immortality, Eternity… — John Ford Copy Share Image
To gain victory over the flesh was the purpose of fasting and celibacy, which denied the pleasures of this world for the… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You want to know my real pleasure? Food. I love chocolate. I can't get enough chocolate. I can't help it. But my… — Brian Wilson Copy Share Image
I take so much pleasure at seeing customers who are happy: happy with what they eat, but happy with their friends and… — Daniel Boulud Copy Share Image
If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the victim shall be… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size she is… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel-to see and touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas,… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Fashion was the only law, pleasure the only pursuit, and the splendour of dress and furniture was the only distinction of the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
At an incredibly divisive point in pop history, Donna Summer managed to create an undeniable across-the-board experience of mass pleasure - after… — Rob Sheffield 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
The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I believe in the spiritual warfare. There are people who pick sides. The lord of this world is Satan. You can do… — Stephen Baldwin Copy Share Image
One of the most delightful things about gardening is the freemasonry it gives with other gardeners, and the interest and pleasure all… — Margery Fish Copy Share Image
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
No one likes rain but rain brings us pleasure for once pleasure's gone we learn what to treasure — Ace Antonio Hall Copy Share Image
The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it! — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
I don't think I ever played any sports recreationally for my own pleasure. I was bad at them from the start. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“To feel your arms around me...to feel your breath on my neck...is pleasure in itself. It is home.” — Faye Hall Copy Share Image
The Samurai is the first to suffer anxiety for human society, and he is the last to seek personal pleasure. — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, and yet I take a kind of pleasure in indulging… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
It's childish, but it still gives me great pleasure to see high-res pictures everyone told me would be impossible. — Stefan Hell Copy Share Image
If a ten ton truck kills the both of us, to die by your side the pleasure and privilege is mine. — The Smiths Copy Share Image
For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
The pains and pleasures of the body, howsoever important to ourselves, are an indelicate subject of conversation — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I long to be in the midst of the children, and have more pleasure in their little follies than in the wisdom… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The great pleasure of life is doing for pleasure things I do not like to do. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
