If you are thinking of nything with dependence upon it, there is a motive of curiosity, or pleasure, or success, and though… — Ernest Wood Copy Share Image
Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink. — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
We could take all the pleasures that have ever been and will ever be in all the universes and add them up… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things? — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
My mitochondria comprise a very large proportion of me. I cannot do the calculation, but I suppose there is almost as much… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
After all, [female genital mutilation is] a key pillar of institutional misogyny in Islam: its entire purpose is to deny women sexual… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
There's a joy without canker or cark, There's a pleasure eternally new, 'T is to gloat on the glaze and the mark… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
When I remember thee in days to come, O Jerusalem, it will not be with pleasure. The musty deposits of 2,000 years… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
I regret that children died, but I felt like God. It was the power of God over a human being. ... I… — Peter Woodcock Copy Share Image
Pleasure never comes sincere to man; but lent by heaven upon hard usury. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure. — Peter Morgan 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
The fact that we often judge the pleasure of an experience by its ending can cause us to make some curious choices. — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
The anti-pleasure movement in self-discovery is very strong. I have big news for them, if they ever get to enlightenment, which is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, it is much easier to shut one's eyes to good than to evil. Pain and sorrow knock at our doors more… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Calling a show a 'guilty pleasure' is like saying 'I'm embarrassed to say I watch it but I can't stop.' That's not… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
With my mother's death all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
So the only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
My life is devoted to self-delusion - and I have a great capacity for that - but it's the thing that gives… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
The limits of pleasure are as yet neither known nor fixed, and that we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure. — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
The next time you and somebody are in an elevator alone, give them the creepiest stare followed by the creepiest smile ever.… — Dan Cummins Copy Share Image
It's always a pleasure to know clubs like Chelsea, with their ambitious owner, are interested in you. — David Trezeguet Copy Share Image
May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating… — Yahya Jammeh Copy Share Image
There are three sorts of pleasures which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Finding pleasure in the discriminating study of ceremonies… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Beethoven and Wagner for many years wrung our hearts. But now we are sated with them and derive much greater pleasure from… — Luigi Russolo Copy Share Image
La, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté Luxe, calme et volupté There, there is nothing else but grace and measure, Richness, quietness, and… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan,… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
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