If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others. — François De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the… — Jacques Charles Copy Share Image
These heels are candy for the feet; they’re for pleasure, not practicality. — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing… — John Green Copy Share Image
If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing. — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
Shut the door of that house of pleasure which you hear resounding with the loud voice of a woman. — Saadi Copy Share Image
Skilled work, of no matter what kind, is only done well by those who take a certain pleasure in it, quite apart… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The joy of the Lord will arm us against the assaults of our spiritual enemies, and, put our mouths out of taste… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk,… — James Salter Copy Share Image
The King did not summon the Estates because he needed them, but out of his own pleasure. — Jacques Necker Copy Share Image
Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I sometimes get tired because I can seldom read a book for pleasure. I'm like the play reviewer who happens to go… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
That was my dream, to drive for Ferrari, but I am not a kid any more. If Ferrari is the best team… — Jean Alesi Copy Share Image
BMW models are more powerful on average than competitors. This is precisely what we are aiming for: less fuel consumption and more… — Norbert Reithofer Copy Share Image
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, who so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
For example, I'm terribly proud. I'm as mistrustful and as sensitive as a hunchback or a dwarf; but, in truth, I've experienced… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
New pressures are causing ever more people to find their main satisfaction in their consumptive role rather than in their productive role.… — Vance Packard Copy Share Image
Just as I wonder whether it's going to die, the orchid blossoms and I can't explain why it moves my heart, why… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
Writing's not always a pleasure to me, but if I'm not writing every other pleasure loses its savour. — John Braine Copy Share Image
Americans generally associate boats with leisure. Vastly less prosperous, Egyptians associate them with nothing but labour. Rowing a boat is something a… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Albert Durer, the famous painter, used to say he had no pleasure in pictures that were painted with many colors, but in… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The nicest men in the world were horribly cruel. They took no great pleasure from it, it was just part of being… — Margaret Way Copy Share Image
Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
When I'm doing a drawing, I get lots of ideas I use them in my songs, even. I do a lot of… — Daniel Johnston Copy Share Image
Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Audiences love Paul Taylor, and so do I. Not everything, and not always, but year in, year out, he gives me more… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
The artist isn't particularly keen on getting a thing done, as you call it. He gets his pleasure out of doing it,… — William McFee Copy Share Image
That was an important development for me, just realizing that you need to follow your pleasure, at least as a painter. I… — John Currin Copy Share Image
If one takes pleasure in calling the gold standard a "barbarous relic," one cannot object to the application of the same term… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it,… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind). [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it. — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
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