I don't know anything that gives me greater pleasure, or profit either, than talking or listening to philosophy. But when it comes… — Plato Copy Share Image
If you are not in the red playroom of pain and pleasure, … shooting the movie is much like doing any other movie. — Marcia Gay Harden Copy Share Image
To be sure an artist wishes to raise his standard intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain in obscurity.… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Man's pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly. — Pindar Copy Share Image
I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,--a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
This bored fantastic woman, with her animal nature, giving herself the pleasure of seeing her enemy struck down, not a particularly keen… — Gustave Moreau Copy Share Image
You who are dead ... tonight you will disport yourselves for my pleasure. Food and wine will pass between your dead lips,… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
Love is the beauty and the strength of all societies and the great pleasure of our lives on earth. — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
I love New York City in the fall, and one of my favorite events of the season is the annual World of… — Stephanie March Copy Share Image
Another writer asserts that the tyranny of man over woman has its roots, after all, in his nobler feelings; his love, his… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
I enjoyed playing around with Paulie in the Rocky films, and it was a pleasure every three, four years, coming back seeing… — Burt Young Copy Share Image
A life devoted to seeking pleasure, is a life committed to being discontent. — David Guerrero Copy Share Image
An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age. — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
We never had it so good: Every person alive today derives great benefit from comforts and pleasures that were not available in… — Zelig Pliskin Copy Share Image
For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance. — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
“Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
But Geology carries the day: it is like the pleasure of gambling, speculating, on first arriving, what the rocks may be; I… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It is not lawful for you to make a compromise with God: to try to fulfill part of your duties and to… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Godly people... nobly endure hard things. They know that their existence is meaningful and that they are destined for unlimited pleasure at… — Larry Crabb Copy Share Image
Home is the heart of life Home is where we feel at ease, where we belong, where we can create surroundings that… — Terence Conran Copy Share Image
To make my meal, I go to the market and to the garden, and then I decide what I'm going to do.… — Alain Ducasse Copy Share Image
During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Unfortunately much of it is frittered away on fast cars, designer clothes and an attitude to pleasure reminiscent of the 18-30 holiday… — Ken Bates Copy Share Image
A madhouse of frenzied moneymaking and frenzied pleasure-seeking, with none of the corners chipped off. It is beautifully situatedand the air reminds… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
I was very young when I prepared those prints. I suspect the reason I couldn't celebrate the floating world was that I… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
When you eat mindfully, by paying attention to what you eat, you get more pleasure with fewer calories. — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Spite of all modesty, a man must own a pleasure in the hearing of his praise. — George Farquhar Copy Share Image
Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under the skin,… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
I had often heard Mentor say, that the voluptuous were never brave, and I now found by experience that it was true;… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Being politically correct means always having to say you're sorry. Believe me, the power and pleasure and the emotion of this moment… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Year followed struggling year for me, and all that time I read--I suppose few have ever read so. I began, as most… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
I believe that one of the great pleasures that we derive from voyaging is that of independence, and we have found that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
