The true effect of genuine politeness seems to be rather ease than pleasure. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Show yourself more human than critical, and then your Pleasure will increase. — Domenico Scarlatti Copy Share Image
Where there is a mind, there are feelings such as pain, pleasure, and joy. No sentient being wants pain: all wants happiness… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
No one will be a stranger to the pain of failure, if they want to feel true pleasure that success brings. — Kristiana Evans Copy Share Image
The greatest pleasure in my life is doing something people say I can't do. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
Wisdom begins with sacrifice of immediate pleasures for long-range purposes. — Louis Finkelstein Copy Share Image
I hope people enjoy what I do. That would make me happy because I'd be bringing others pleasure while doing something I… — Heather O'Rourke Copy Share Image
If usually the "present age" is no very long time, still, at our pleasure, or in the service of some such unity… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
I don't really have guilty pleasures. Anything musically that I fully, fully believe, is good no matter who the artist is, no… — Solange Knowles Copy Share Image
'The Canon' is a film podcast that also has much in common with books podcast 'Backlisted.' Both suggest you can get a… — David Hepworth Copy Share Image
I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn… — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
HOLY, HOLY, HOLY Thou are worthy, O Lord and our God, the Holy One, to receive the glory and the honour and… — Lancelot Andrewes Copy Share Image
The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
Whatever your pleasure, I can facilitate. You need weed, you need meth - hey, you need Prozac, I'm your man. I know… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
The three monotheism share a series of identical forms of aversion: hatred of reason and intelligence; hatred of freedom; hatred of all… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
The world taught women nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
Every moment a taste of that beauty in our mouths, another stashed in a pocket. Impossible to say what: no cypress so… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Everything is reduced to what's physical in the end, because it's the filth inside people's minds that creates all the evil. What… — Ray Davies Copy Share Image
Inevitably I came to associate any wine I met with a specific place and a particular slant of history. I learned to… — Gerald Asher Copy Share Image
The distance runner is mysteriously reconciling the separations of body and mind, of pain and pleasure, of the conscious and the unconscious.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Here may I live what life I please, Married and buried out of sight, - Married to pleasure and buried to pain,… — Violet Fane Copy Share Image
There is no man but for his own interest hath an obligation to be honest. There may be sometimes temptations to be… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
“Ungodliness is confronting the society and everyone seems to be at its mercy because of greed for pleasure.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Both Left and Right take pleasure in mildly persecuting those who fail to meet their civic ideals. — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
Life is short And pleasures few And holed the ship And drowned the crew But o! But o! How very blue the… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If I like it, I don't feel guilty about it — Darren Criss Copy Share Image
“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. - Confucius” — Confucius Copy Share Image
Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
It has been said that the only reason for leaving England is to give yourself the pleasure of coming back to it. — Patience Strong Copy Share Image
Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Is this something new, having people stomp on you? Is it what I need to do for your pleasure? — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When I see smiles while we are performing, whether live, on stage or in films or on TV, it gives me immense… — Sunil Grover Copy Share Image
Pain stems from pleasure. they balance carefully, and when one is absent the other morphs into hate and depression — Myself Copy Share Image
“RAGING MIND - A HAIKU Uncontrollable, Thoughts flow, attention decides, If there's peace, or pain!” — Amogh Swamy Copy Share Image
Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
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