They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air, as a time when play was good… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To be sure an artist wishes to raise his standard intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain in obscurity.… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
I try to make classics. I don't try to make things that aren't good. It's always a pleasure to see that people… — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of temptation to disarm your better senses. Throughout the ages good people surrendered their honor for the empty… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
“It is my wish to fill every moment of my time with some action of the mind which may contribute to the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“The kiss intimately relates to the most primitive kind of human contact, which can satisfy all of our needs, like: feeding, enjoying… — Mabel Iam Copy Share Image
It was my duty to have loved the highest; It surely was my profit had I known: It would have been my… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Whereas men of an older school, like myself, smoke for the pleasure of smoking, men of this school smoke for the pleasure… — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
To the love of pleasure we may therefore ascribe most of the agreeable, to the love of action we may attribute most… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If a bell failed to ring, if a stove smoked, if a wheel on a machine stuck, you knew at once where… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, the luxuries of electricity,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
The charm of smoking a cigarette from the point of view of the people who smoked them, and I was one of… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
My soul was a burden, bruised and bleeding. It was tired of the man who carried it, but I found no place… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
With health, everything is a source of pleasure; without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable...Healt h is by far… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt Copy Share Image
All summer, I read fiction because you must read for the pleasure and beauty of it, and not only for research. I… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
My gift of John Marshall to the people of the United States was the proudest act of my life. There is no… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The next time you and somebody are in an elevator alone, give them the creepiest stare followed by the creepiest smile ever.… — Dan Cummins Copy Share Image
The future, good or ill, was not forgotten, but ceased to have any power over the present. Health and hope grew strong… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
The only writer who gives me unfeigned pleasure is P.G. Wodehouse. And even him I find a bit heavy. He takes a… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Pleasure. This is what true pleasure feels like. It's not just the softness of a kiss. It's not just the delicate touch… — Callie Hart Copy Share Image
True happiness cannot be found in things that change and pass away. Pleasure and pain alternate inexorably. Happiness comes from the Self… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When I'm depressed and I feel low thinking that good movies are not made any more, then I put on his movies… — Geraldine Chaplin Copy Share Image
Being in a marriage and having children is the greatest pleasure, but it is certainly not the easiest pleasure. It is not… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
It is easier for one to take risks and to chase his dreams with a mindset that he has nothing to lose.… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
This earthly life is a battle,' said Ma. 'If it isn't one thing to contend with, it's another. It always has been… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
I love New York City in the fall, and one of my favorite events of the season is the annual World of… — Stephanie March Copy Share Image
Mozart is everyone's tea, pleasing to highbrows, middlebrows and lowbrows alike, though they probably all get different kinds of pleasure from him. — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
If I won a few billion in the lottery, I would create an institute where people who would like to die would… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
