Apart from the pleasure of looking at her and listening to her-of enjoying in her what others less discriminatingly but as liberally… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
That's the way the mind works: the brain is genetically disposed towards organization, yet if not controlled, will link even the most… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Life is like a coin, pleasure and pain are the two sides, only one side is visible at time, but remember other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I cannot face with comfort the idea of life without work; work and the free play of the imagination are for me… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
The Prydain Companion is more than a quick reference or handy glossary, though it is all of that as well. Instructive, certainly.… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
You cannot study Pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. ... It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
I'll still try to nail acting jobs, but with 'Eastbound,' creating it is what gives me the ultimate pleasure at the end… — Danny McBride Copy Share Image
True happiness does not consist in the pleasures of this world, or in earthly things, but in peace of conscience, which we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Confidentiality is the nature of all governments. Of course you may say, the government will always want to communicate the good news;… — Bernard Ingham Copy Share Image
The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle but to procreate and bring up children, to support… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When indeed Religion is kindled into enthusiasm, its force like that of other passions is increased by the sympathy of a multitude.… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Banish (the onion) from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it. Its presence lends color and enchantment to the most modest… — Elizabeth Robins Pennell Copy Share Image
I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Melancholy suicide. —This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the patient no longer to realize… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
It's really, really eclectic. It's not a business book [Girlboss], but it's still a book that should make you want to get… — Sophia Amoruso Copy Share Image
I can't abide to see men throw away their tools i' that way, the minute the clock begins to strike, as if… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
The sincere love of books has nothing to do with cleverness or stupidity any more than any other sincere love. It is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
The real pleasure was having the chance to enjoy being weightless, and the other was to spend some time looking out at… — Robert Crippen Copy Share Image
I get the utmost pleasure in life out of showing my children how much I adore the life out of them. — Stacey Solomon Copy Share Image
he who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I don't believe terror and horror are just vicarious pleasures. I think it routes itself in your mind. It can affect your… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
And now I know why they invented words for love, why they had to: It's the only thing that can come close… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Who can describe the transports of a beam truly parental on beholding a daughter shoot up like some fair and modest flower,… — George Fordyce Copy Share Image
The gift of Truthovercomes all gifts.The joy of Truthovercomes all pleasures.The taste of Truthovercomes all sweetness. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image