Jews are a singular confusion — difficult to define, awkward to describe, impossible to understand. All the virtues, all the vices, every… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
As life's pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs. Now that's better than sex, but only… — Alan King Copy Share Image
In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure because the purpose of eating is… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It gives me great pleasure, a good name. I always in writing start with a name. Give me a name and it… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
You keep thinking that with practice you will eventually get the knack of enjoying superficial encounters, that you will stop looking for… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
Music [is] a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred; no difference… — Samuel Pepys Copy Share Image
LIFE is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. Peace is the interlude… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Everyone needs a spiritual guide: a minister, rabbi, counselor, wise friend, or therapist. My own wise friend is my dog. He has… — Gary A. Kowalski Copy Share Image
The most efficient action, the most significant testimony to nonviolence, is living a life in which there is no violence-showing that such… — Lanza del Vasto Copy Share Image
Jonathan Coe's genial, likeable novel can only be described as a kind of lit-prog-rock concept album... Coe recreates the period with such… — Peter Bradshaw Copy Share Image
To confound the tyranny of man there should exist for a century a third sex, both male and female, and stronger than… — Charles Fourier Copy Share Image
The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self… And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation andsecurity.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Our friend and we were invited aboard on a party of pleasure, which is to last forever. His chair was ready first,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I am happy because I want nothing from anyone. I do not care for money. Decorations, titles or distinctions mean nothing to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Like one who has eaten and drunk too much and vomits painfully and then feels better, so did the restless man wish… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The questions that are beyond the reach of economics-the beauty, dignity, pleasure and durability of life-may be inconvenient but they are important. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I take so much pleasure at seeing customers who are happy: happy with what they eat, but happy with their friends and… — Daniel Boulud Copy Share Image
You want to know my real pleasure? Food. I love chocolate. I can't get enough chocolate. I can't help it. But my… — Brian Wilson Copy Share Image
Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
To gain victory over the flesh was the purpose of fasting and celibacy, which denied the pleasures of this world for the… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth, Life's paradise, great princess, the soul's quiet, Sinews of concord, earthly immortality, Eternity… — John Ford Copy Share Image
The rigour of science requires that we distinguish well the undraped figure of Nature itself from the gay-coloured vesture with which we… — Heinrich Hertz Copy Share Image
I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that… — Nolan Ryan Copy Share Image
The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There was always, he thought, this pleasure ahead of him, an ace of joy up his sleeve so he could say you… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Each man must take the material that he finds at hand, see that in it there are the big truths of life,… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the victim shall be… — John Adams Copy Share Image
How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a… — William Davenant Copy Share Image
If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's… — Saint Patrick Copy Share Image
Masochists are people that have pleasure confused with pain. In a world that has television confused with entertainment, doritoes confused with food,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Like I tell people they wind up having short term pleasure and long term pain. I'm a tell what Minister Louis Farrakhan… — Mr. T Copy Share Image
“The idea makes a lot of people uncomfortable. [...] It's hurt a great many people and been responsible for a great deal… — Manna Francis Copy Share Image
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
To the non-initiate, whose experience of sexuality and bodily pleasure may be distorted by negative cultural conditioning, the introduction of sexuality into… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
In these days people take up with each other and drop each other too easily. Pleasure is practiced like a sport, and… — Jeanne Moreau Copy Share Image
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![“Music [is] a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred; no difference of age or season; no temper of mind or condition of health exempt from present anguish; nor, lastly, distinction of quality, renders either improper, untimely, or…” quote by Samuel Pepys](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb7/samuel-pepys-13758_age_music-is-a-science-peculiarly-productive_2249344.jpg)
![“There was always, he thought, this pleasure ahead of him, an ace of joy up his sleeve so he could say you can do anything to me, take everything away, put me in prison, but I will know [her] when we are old.” quote by Michael Ondaatje](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35c/michael-ondaatje-940_aces_there-was-always-he-thought-this-pleasur_2552879.jpg)
![“The idea makes a lot of people uncomfortable. [...] It's hurt a great many people and been responsible for a great deal of misery. But, to my mind at least, that doesn't mean it can't now bring pleasure to someone.” quote by Manna Francis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/045/manna-francis-23306_bdsm_the-idea-makes-a-lot-of-people-uncomfort_2960125.jpg)
