I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have never been loved enough to gain the desire of reproducing a being in the image of my lover and I… — Rachilde Copy Share Image
Idleness, ennui, noise, mischief, riot, and a nameless train of mistaken notions of pleasure, are often classed, in a young man's mind,… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
If the mind is wearied by study, or the body worn with sickness, It is well to lie fallow for a while,… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
Faith, whereby especially Christ rules, sets the soul so high that it looks down on all other things as far below, as… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
The moment I stopped spending so much time chasing the big pleasure of life. I began to enjoy the little ones, like… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
BMW models are more powerful on average than competitors. This is precisely what we are aiming for: less fuel consumption and more… — Norbert Reithofer Copy Share Image
He tells me I look as if I could use a hugand i laugh at him and he ignores me and steps… — James Frey Copy Share Image
Well," Peter Van Houten said, extending his hand to me. "It is at any rate a pleasure to meet such ontologically improbable… — John Green Copy Share Image
If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and… — Joseph Paxton Copy Share Image
He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Happiness is impossible, and even inconceivable, to a mind without scope and without pause, a mind driven by craving, pleasure, or fear.… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
In a way I do hate the process of writing. It's like learning a role where you never think you're going to… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
She understood him. He could not forgive her,-but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
What demon is our god? What name subsumes That act external to our sleeping selves? Not pleasure - it is much too… — J. V. Cunningham Copy Share Image
You do not need to belong to the cat for a long time to realize the main thing that cats like to… — Cleveland Amory Copy Share Image
You remember my ideal cat has always a huge rat in its mouth, just going out of sight - though going out… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There are two things that we should avoid, oh disciple! A life of pleasures, that is low and vain. A life of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
MUSIC MAY NOT MAKE YOU A GENIUS, or rich, or even a better person. But it helps train you to think differently,… — Joanne Lipman Copy Share Image
I was always a great bundle of energy. As a child, instead of walking, I would run. And so running, which is… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
Obviously, we all want to feel pleasure. It can't be one of our highest priorities because, simply put, anything worthwhile in life… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
For some obscure reason, some authorities seem bent on making the drinking of wine a ritual more complicated than chess. They have… — Craig Claiborne Copy Share Image
In the sex education process in schools, the one thing that they teach about is how to get pregnant and how to… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
Then I could not help wondering what the watching gods thought of us, with our clever masks and our jokes. What we… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
My idea of Heaven is what we've got right now, right here!-All this beauty and pleasure and fun and inspiration and spirit… — David Berg Copy Share Image
“Some women do not masturbate for pleasure; they masturbate to make a political statement: to remind us that women do not really… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
When the eyes of a woman that a man finds attractive look directly at him, his brain secretes the pleasure-inducing chemical dopamine… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Most wine knowledge does not directly enhance the pleasures to be had in drinking wine but, rather, enhances one's ability to discover… — Kent Bach Copy Share Image
Long before feminism made fashion a guilty pleasure, my first experience of the sisterhood among strangers took place in a communal dressing… — Judith Thurman Copy Share Image
According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I still derive immense pleasure from remembering how many hod-carrying brickies were encouraged to put on lurex tights and mince up and… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
“the key factor in our mutual pleasure was that we enjoyed each other’s company, which, banal though it may seem, is the… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
My favourite shows of the year are House of Cards, the Scandinavian versions of The Killing and The Bridge, and my guilty… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Two children, all alone and no one by, Holding their tattered frocks, thro'an airy maze Of motion lightly threaded with nimble feet… — Laurence Binyon Copy Share Image
Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it's… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
If we can sleep without dreaming, it is well that painful dreams are avoided. If, while we sleep, we can have any… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Those who desire only the good pleasure of God abide in peace even in the midst of failure, for God has not… — Rose Philippine Duchesne Copy Share Image
Our future is like that of the passengers on a small pleasure boat sailing quietly above the Niagara Falls, not knowing that… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
