Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All the suffering in the world comes from seeking pleasure for oneself. All the happiness in the world comes from seeking pleasure… — Shantideva Copy Share Image
Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare. — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Thoughts take up no room. When they are right, they afford a portable pleasure, which one may travel with, without any trouble… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions. — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I often find it easier to be teaching or giving to others, and often struggle with the place of my own pleasure… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
If yon wish to be like the gods on earth, to be free in the realms of the dead, pluck not the… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Rise above the limited conditions of pleasure and pain, success and failure, happiness and sorrow, that all the countless unenlightened beings in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What good does it do to have all the riches of the world and all the world's pleasures? They will all disappear… — Rama Swami Copy Share Image
Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The pleasure to be derived from a chess combination lie in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game, dominating… — Richard Reti Copy Share Image
Means at our disposal should be regarded as a bulwark against the many evils and misfortunes that can occur. We should not… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The music of a marathon is a powerful strain, one of those tunes of glory. It asks us to forsake pleasures, to… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
It is a maxim of ours to work in the service of the people, with the good pleasure of the pastors, and… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
If a marriage is going to work well, it must be on a solid footing, namely money, and of that commodity it… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Old age is another country, a place of strangeness, sometimes, and dislocation. There's a lot to be done in this country, and… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
He could not forgive her, but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Whether outside work is done by choice or not, whether women seek their identity through work, whether women are searching for pleasure… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
Halloween is an ancient druidic holiday, one the Celtic peoples have celebrated for millennia. It is the crack between the last golden… — Jenny Colgan Copy Share Image
It has been my pleasure to speak at many Federalist Society gatherings around the country, and I think one thing your organization… — Nadine Strossen Copy Share Image
When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Every time you prefer the pleasures of this world to the joys of heaven, you spit in the face of Christ; every… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
