I spend a hell of a lot of time killing animals and fish so I wouldn't kill myself. When a man is… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Work, look for peace and calm in work: You will find it nowhere else. Pleasures flit by -- they are only for… — Dmitri Mendeleev Copy Share Image
My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life. — Barbara Taylor Bradford Copy Share Image
It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There's joy… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
This is a faithless old world. Men and women are hardheaded, pleasure-mad, money crazy. They write up their successes and say, "The… — Lee Roberson Copy Share Image
Were all the pleasures in the world, even pure air, made solely for the rich? I think it is immoral - it… — Ellen Buckingham Mathews Copy Share Image
Now as the Paradisiacal pleasures of the Mahometans consist in playing upon the flute and lying with Houris, be mine to read… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene. 'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,' observed the tempter. 'I'd want to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
One should never learn from one's mistakes. Making the same mistakes, over and over again, is a source of unremitting pleasure. — Peter York Copy Share Image
Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably… — Marquis de Custine Copy Share Image
“It bombarded her with instant pleasure, instant pain and instant arousal, fact and fiction all mixed up and blurred together to create… — Ruth Harris Copy Share Image
Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chatted all the way; But left me none the wiser For all she had to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we fulfill any need of the human body, it gives us pleasure. To breathe gives us much pleasure. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At that time, he was satisfying a sensual curiosity by experiencing the pleasures of people who live for love. He had believed… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Even in the midst of compassion we feel within I know not what tart sweet titillation of malicious pleasure in seeing others… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love it when people have pleasure working and when there is respect. That's what I love. — Lea Seydoux Copy Share Image
I have received your letter of the 6th, with the eloquent discourse delivered at the consecration of the Jewish Synagogue. Having ever… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
And few hookups, if any, ever take place sober. And while wearing "beer goggles" may make people appear more attractive, it doesn't… — Michael Kimmel Copy Share Image
Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Glen Hirshberg's stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content -- the stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
You almost never get the pleasure of seeing that you won the argument in real time. People just don't like to publicly… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Variety's the source of joy below, From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow, In books and love the mind one end pursues, And… — John Gay Copy Share Image
I'm not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
If a girl gets sexual pleasure from riding a horse, does the horse suffer? If not, who cares? If you French kiss… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
One of the greatest pleasures I get from my measly professional career is confusing people. — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they 'own' their bodies—those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Life is the coexistence of all opposite values. Joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, up and down, hot and cold, here and… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Follow not after the vain, understand the ills of sense pleasures. One who is vigilant and meditative, obtains deep joy. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I like mixing or combining hobby and pleasure with work and have-tos. — Jose Gonzalez Copy Share Image
“Love is the only thing that changes abstinence from a prison into pleasure.” — Jihad Eltabey Copy Share Image
