Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure. — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
I make my guitar scream with pain or pleasure or sensuality. It makes people move their feet and shake their bodies. That's… — Dick Dale Copy Share Image
The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
I guess one man's trash is the next man's treasure, one man's pain is the next man's pleasure. — Fort Minor Copy Share Image
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery. — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
We were created for meaningful work, and one of life's greatest pleasures is the satisfaction of a job well done. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The lover's pleasure is in the pleasure of the beloved. The lover is satisfied when the beloved is fed. The lover is… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we… — John Locke Copy Share Image
But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences… — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At last some time for pleasure trips And do what you want to do The time to just take your time It's… — John Walter Bratton Copy Share Image
“The glutton usually realizes that gout is ever ready to pounce, and that alcohol is bad for him. But possible disaster weighs… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, now that one had acquired the power, the full flavour; to extract every… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The purpose in life is not to win. The purpose in life is to grow and to share. "When you come to… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
It shall be my pleasure to remedy it. First, it is not your strength or your speed that draws me. It's your...everything.… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
“In the course of aesthetic experience, the perceiver may be overwhelmed by this 'mere object', overcome with emotion, altered to the very… — Wendy Steiner Copy Share Image
Does the pursuit of truth give you as much pleasure as before? Surely it is not the knowing but the learning, not… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Unless a woman has a decided pleasure and facility in teaching, an honest knowledge of everything she professes to impart, a liking… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
So I have no grounds to complain; on the contrary, writers should consider the condition of permanent controversiality to be invigorating, part… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The greatest pleasure in life is doing something which people believe you cant !! — AaRon Copy Share Image
Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not; I may, although I care not, for pleasure… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
“For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.” — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
A lively retrospect summons back to us once more our youth, with vivid reflex of its early joys and unstained pleasures. — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
Follow not after the vain, understand the ills of sense pleasures. One who is vigilant and meditative, obtains deep joy. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Without suffering in pain, pleasures cant be won. As each dark night, meets a new dawn!! — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
“...the true test of the perversity of a pleasure is that it occupies a disproportionate amount of the attention.” — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing. — Alain-Rene Lesage Copy Share Image
The one pleasure that never palls is the pleasure of not going to church. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set… — Kin Hubbard Copy Share Image
The real way to enjoy playing golf is to take pleasure not in the score, but in the execution of strokes. — Bobby Jones Copy Share Image