Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Waking up and having a project to work on is one of life's great pleasures. — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
“Sex doesn't satisfy for a lifetime, the more you have it, the more you want it. And the more you have it,… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Oh, what ecstasy setting fires brings to my body! What power I feel at the thought of fire!...Oh, what pleasure, what heavenly… — Joseph Kallinger Copy Share Image
This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Pleasure is built on self-seeking,but joy is based on self-sacrifice.and the more we pursue self-gratification,the more empty we feel. — Mariane Corbito Copy Share Image
In youth, the absense of pleasure is pain, in old age, the absence of pain is pleasure. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is only one real deprivation, I decided this morning, and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Take your love and your pleasure as you find it. Do not worry so much of the future that you let today… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The analogies between science and art are very good as long as you are talking about the creation and the performance. The… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
People can tolerate two homosexuals they see leaving together, but the next day they're smiling, holding hands, tenderly embracing one another, then… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The essence of loving living as a follower of Jesus isn't in trying harder but in enjoying more. I'm not saying you… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
To wash one's hair, make one's toilet, and put on scented robes; even if not a soul sees one, these preparations still… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As pills that are outwardly fair, gilt, and rolled in sugar, but within are full of bitterness, even so lustful pleasure is… — Daniel Cawdry Copy Share Image
The pleasures of love are for those who are hopelessly addicted to another living creature. The reasons for such addiction are so… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
People want to be happy, isn't that right? Haven't you heard it all your life? I want to be happy, people say.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I have read that the secret of gallantry is to accept the pleasures of life leisurely, and its inconveniences with a shrug;… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Life consists not of a series of illustrious actions or elegant enjoyments. The greater part of our time passes in compliance with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We often tend to think that the executive wishes to maintain standard, wishes to reach a certain quality of production, and that… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
“You have a hierarchy of values; pleasure is at the bottom of the ladder, and you speak with a little thrill of… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Bridges - a master of subtle brilliance - plays the hell out of it. Not by showing off, but by going bone-deep… — Peter Travers Copy Share Image
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough. — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
And I refused to make any sacrifices; for nothing on earth seemed more valuable than my peace of mind, my pleasure and… — George Sand Copy Share Image
I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them. — Barbara McClintock Copy Share Image
We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams? — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures. [Lat., Continuis voluptatibus vicina satietas.] — Quintilian Copy Share Image
WHEN YOU HAVE SEX ITS YOUR FIRST TIME IT HURT BUT THEN ITS ALL PLEASURE BEYACH!!! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it after you catch it is a business. — Tommy Henrich Copy Share Image
“So why do you kiss someone?" she asks. "To give pleasure or to take it?” — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
Every time I come home, it is the same great pleasure to lie down in my bed. That's when I think, 'home… — Sigrid Agren Copy Share Image
Many people weigh the guilt, they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take. — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me. — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
There is no pleasure in flying to the top! The pleasure is climbing up there step by step, feeling every single muscle! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
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