“...the true test of the perversity of a pleasure is that it occupies a disproportionate amount of the attention.” — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The rapturuous, wild, and ineffable pleasure of drinking at somebody else's expense — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
When you're a parent, you sing better. It becomes a pure pleasure, rather than something I have to do. — Celine Dion Copy Share Image
The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
Sleep my little baby-oh Sleep until you waken When you wake you'll see the world If I'm not mistaken... Kiss a lover… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Let us never allow ourselves to be carried away so completely by pleasure that we fail to recall from time to time… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom, you do everything to gain some right, and once… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
“Misery will not leave from where there is excessive bad or harmful associations with that which takes you away from the Self… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't - he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in food and stuff… — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
And some of your elders remember pleasures with regret like wrongs committed in drunkenness. But regret is the beclouding of the mind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of 'Geordie Shore.' I watch it, and it's just my guilty pleasure. I sit there and can't believe… — Amy Childs Copy Share Image
Our merciful Father has no pleasure in the sufferings of His children; He chastens them in love; He never inflicts a stroke… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Donna E. Smyth - adventures with words; she is always doing something new and unique. Beginning with her visceral morality, her stories… — George Elliott Clarke Copy Share Image
In order to understand what is meant by the word 'brain' as it is used by neuroscientists, we must bear in mind… — John Zachary Young Copy Share Image
I have lived large parts of my life in wonderful circumstances that I utterly failed to appreciate. Reasons to be happy were… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My main disappointment was always that a book had to end. And then what? But I don't think I was ever disappointed… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Is it not enough that we cannot make one another happy, must we also rob one another of the pleasures that any… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Whatever may have been said of the satiety of pleasure and of the disgust which usually follows passion, any man who has… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
Because we haven’t been taught to appreciate and love ourselves in this way, we don’t feel like we deserve self-care and pleasure.… — Jessica Ortner Copy Share Image
Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“I had a dream that I could please everyone. Well that will always be a dream, because I find that near to… — Starley Ard Copy Share Image
Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands and all you can do is scratch it. — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Whether joy or sorrow, pain or pleasure; whatsoever may befall thee, accept it serenely with an unvanquished heart. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I've been playing football for 23 years and with more than 30 nationalities; that has been a pleasure. — Clarence Seedorf Copy Share Image
The difference is great between one's outside "life," the things which happen to one, incidents, pains and pleasures, and one's "living." — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
You can lose yourself in pleasure, 'til your body's going numb, but will it ever be enough. — Meat Loaf Copy Share Image
A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
I don't want people to see healthy eating as a diet. I want it to be satisfying food that everyone takes pleasure… — Ella Woodward Copy Share Image
Taking pleasure in the dark side may be some sort of occupational hazard for reporters. — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
There are many other pleasures - besides the pleasure of physical union. — Faiz Ahmad Faiz Copy Share Image
That has been challenging but also such a pleasure to branch out and do different things. — Sophia Amoruso Copy Share Image
I've seen other comics, with great pleasure, watching their own specials, and I don't know how or why they do it. — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death. — Diogenes Copy Share Image
Playing with fire is bad for those who burn themselves. For the rest of us, it is a very great pleasure. — Jerry Smith Copy Share Image
