The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure. — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have the distinct pleasure of doing exactly what I want to do and get paid for it. It's a joy. — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
Attention! I can please only 1 person a day. Today is not your day. 2moro doesnt look good either. — Richie Copy Share Image
My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life. — Barbara Taylor Bradford Copy Share Image
“I hope they have found enough pleasure along the way so that they don't want it ended” — Wallace Stegner 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
In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put my life… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Did groupies ever interest me? No. I'm a pleasure seeker, and I like going bananas, but that's never appealed to me. I… — Jamie Hince Copy Share Image
Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I ought not to have listened to her,' he confided to me one day. 'One never ought to listen to the flowers.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The world of time, of space and condition, pleasure and pain, birth, growth, maturation, decay and death, spinning, spinning, spinning this world,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's always a pleasure to see John. I'm fond of telling people that when I was a young actor in NY and… — Harvey Keitel Copy Share Image
It is not enough that we build products that function, that are understandable and usable, we also need to build products that… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
If the knowledge of torture of others makes you sick, it is a case of sympathy... It can be argued that behaviour… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Be careful how you do one man a pleasure which must needs occasion equal displeasure in another. For he who is thus… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
I shared a bed with my sister, Grace, until I was seventeen years old. She was afraid to sleep alone and would… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
If God gives you an abundant harvest of trials, it is a sign of great holiness which He desires you to attain.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Madonna has a far profounder vision of sex than do the feminists. She sees both the animality and the artifice. Changing her… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“The chief means of liberating women is replacing of compulsiveness and compulsion by the pleasure principle. Cooking, clothes, beauty, and housekeeping are… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Part of the joy and pleasure of English is its boundless creativity: I can describe a new machine as bicyclish, I can… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
The Bible teaches that God owns the world. He distributes to every man according to His own good pleasure, conformably to general… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Books can be a source of solace, but I see them mainly as a source of pleasure, personal as well as esthetic. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure? — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Pleasure is always something apposed to pain it is never separate from pain — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Curiosity is a gift, a capacity of pleasure in knowing, which if you destroy, you make yourself cold and dull. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
All the earth is seamed with roads, and all the sea is furrowed with the tracks of ships, and over all the… — Gertrude Bell Copy Share Image
“I am a man without many pleasures in life, a man whose few pleasures are small, but a man whose small pleasures… — Amanda Filipacchi Copy Share Image
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think that you have to seriously have fun, or taking serious things in a light way and obviously, for me, before… — Jean Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Outer pleasure and pain is under the control of ‘Scientific circumstantial evidences’ and to have the inner peace [inner pleasure] is the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
As in no other form of lute or combat, the conditions are such; the winner takes nothing, neither his ease, nor his… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Sixty years is cause enough to sing In celebration of a gentle life! To the mother and the wife, Taking pleasure in… — Nick Gordon Copy Share Image