The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc.,… — Lord Melbourne Copy Share Image
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. Epicurus taught: Pleasure, defined as freedom from pain, is the highest good. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Oh righteous doom, that they who make Pleasure their only end, Ordering the whole life for its sake, Miss that whereto they… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
There is not a little generalship and stratagem required in the managing and marshalling of our pleasures, so that each shall not… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
How defeated and restless the child that is not doing something in which it sees a purpose, a meaning! It is by… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves! — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
This for many people is what is most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
One absolutely crucial change is that feminist film theory is today an academic subject to be studied and taught. "Visual Pleasure and… — Laura Mulvey Copy Share Image
As for history, we are living in its ruins. And as for biographies, we are living with the consequences of all the… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Nothing but religion is capable of changing pains into pleasures. — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
Our future is like that of the passengers on a small pleasure boat sailing quietly above the Niagara Falls, not knowing that… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he… — Jack Cade Copy Share Image
And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The lover's pleasure, like that of the hunter, is in the chase, and the brightest beauty loses half its merit, as the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“How easy is it for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him, and how truly is a kind heart a fountain… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
The dictionary describes a selfish person as one who is 'concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself: seeking pleasure or well-being without regard… — H. Burke Peterson Copy Share Image
For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it… — Attila the Hun Copy Share Image
Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business. To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk;… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I've always made things either paintings, drawing, photographs, or writing. It's all kind of the same thing. It all involves saying more,… — Moyra Davey Copy Share Image
The basic idea that the purpose of life is to be happy or is to experience the most favorable ratio of pleasure… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
A slight sabre-cut will separate my head from my body, like the spring flower which the Master of the garden gathers for… — Theophane Venard Copy Share Image
“Oftentimes in denying yourself pleasure you do but store the desire in the recesses of your being. Who knows but that which… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with 'expressing' myself with obscure… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The truth is that men can have several sorts of pleasure. The true pleasure is the one for which they abandon the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Ah, many a one has started forth with hope and purpose high; Has fought throughout a weary life, and passed all pleasure… — George Arnold Copy Share Image
The fact is, ministry is too unpredictable to be motivated by security. It’s too unprofitable to be motivated by money. It’s too… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
The taste of chocolate is a sensual pleasure in itself, existing in the same world as sex... For myself, I can enjoy… — Ruth Westheimer Copy Share Image
There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
