We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
Most people lead lives of frustration and disapointment. They enjoy temporary pleasures and long-lasting suffering. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure. — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word… Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's so — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Popular women use positive, optimistic language in their online profiles, not buzzwords like "future thinker". Here are the ten most often used… — Amy Webb Copy Share Image
How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
If you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he... will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary… — John Locke Copy Share Image
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Ultimate pleasure is not Found in the short-lived thrills our world offers,but rather in the long-term joy from a deepening intimacy with… — Mariane Corbito Copy Share Image
Knowledge of the Enlightenment Cycle, of the ways that inner dimensions and nirvana work, lifts you far above the transient sorrows, pains,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As much pleasure as young people get from Twittering and texting, there is no way these activities will nourish their minds and… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
He could not - say rather, he would not - deny himself the chance of the pleasure of seeing Margaret. He had… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
In America, where you'd have thought the country's so huge it couldn't happen quite so cosily, everyone's giving his imprimatur to everyone… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
The appearance presented by the streets of London an hour before sunrise, on a summer's morning, is most striking even to the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The overwhelming noise we live with has made a fundamental pleasure like sex somehow less exciting, less satisfying, than it was for… — Sergio De La Pava Copy Share Image
Children of the middle years do not do their learning unaffected by attendant feelings of interest, boredom, success, failure, chagrin, joy, humiliation,… — Dorothy H Cohen Copy Share Image
My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all… — Malcolm De Chazal Copy Share Image
When artists and philosophers talk only amongst themselves, they ignore the potential of popular culture to become a variety of dialogues with… — Brenda Laurel Copy Share Image
The most important fact about our shopping malls, as distinct from the ordinary shopping centers where we go for our groceries, is… — Henry Fairlie Copy Share Image
You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well. — Juan Manuel Fangio Copy Share Image
I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
I wish... that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Each day was a challenge of enjoyment, and he [Hemingway] would plan it out as a field general plans a campign. — A. E. Hotchner Copy Share Image
The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
The secret to happiness, at Thanksgiving or any time, is to find pleasure in imperfection. — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
Slow Food unites the pleasure of food with responsibility, sustainability and harmony with nature. — Carlo Petrini Copy Share Image
Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment. — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
All objective pleasure in the long run must bring pain, because of the fact of change or death. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Monday is great if I can spend it in bed. I'm a man of simple pleasures, really. — Arthur Darvill Copy Share Image
We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Travel is a private pleasure, since it consists entirely of things felt and things seen. — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image