Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Some men find happiness in gluttony and in drunkenness, but no delicate viands can touch their taste with the thrill of pleasure,… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
What a pleasure it is to be in business with BASE. I'm impressed with the honesty, integrity and efficiency with which they… — Bernie Brillstein Copy Share Image
You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
“do not fall in love with your suffering, never presume that your suffering is in itself a proof of your authenticity. Renunciation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I enjoyed playing around with Paulie in the Rocky films, and it was a pleasure every three, four years, coming back seeing… — Burt Young Copy Share Image
...people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The subject matter covered in Carmina stays pretty basic: love, lust, the pleasures of drinking and the heightened moods evoked by springtime.… — Carl Orff Copy Share Image
What liberates the imagination is the sense that work in its theory and practice holds aesthetic possibilities, that jobs can be elegantly… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
Your way of life is sinful and wrong," he said fiercely. Thus says a man who admits to worshipping a God who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pleasure without God, without the sacred boundaries, will actually leave you emptier than before. And this is biblical truth, this is experiential… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Just like in the art museum, and notions of beauty and pleasure, if the hero is always a white guy with a… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Who you really are is Non-Physical Energy focused in a physical body, knowing full well that all is well and always has… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in… — Paul the Apostle Copy Share Image
...only the pleasure which proceeds from a rational value judgement can be regarded as moral, pleasure, as such, is not a guide… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul transpires At every pore… — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
Most scholarly books we read for the information or insight they contain. But some we return to simply for the pleasure of… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it- - to the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is now a pleasure to go to any of the Premier League grounds. They are so welcoming, not just to me… — John Motson Copy Share Image
The delightful study of the Psalms has yielded me boundless profit and ever-growing pleasure; common gratitude constrains me to communicate to others… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
In today's world, when many of yesterday's fashionable habits are today's misdemeanors, we should rejoice that a chocolate dessert can bring so… — Marcel Desaulniers Copy Share Image
Thouqh they never believe I could do it all alone...,throuqh the silent night_Sleepless moment_Hectic day_Occupied week...It's a pleasure God got my back. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Set your goals high; make friends with different kinds of people; enjoy simple pleasures. Stand on high ground; sit on level ground;… — Li Ka-shing Copy Share Image
You have an incredible body." He reaches out to touch my stomach. I feel no pleasure in his compliment or his touch,… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Why has slamming a ball with a racquet become so obsessive a pleasure for so many of us? It seems clear to… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
“Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's tribulation: not because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Toby Tyrrell unravels the various formulations of Gaia and explains how recent scientific developments bring the hypothesis into question. His criticisms are… — Francisco J. Ayala Copy Share Image
As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
…there are three prerequisites to going out into the world to walk for pleasure. One must have free time, a place to… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
I have to laugh because despite the destruction, we cannot let 'them' steal our pleasure. That is always the theme of my… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
The actual act of writing brings me such pleasure - to tell stories, to engage in cultural criticism, to reflect, to question,… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have an impressionable palate. A well-worded menu or beautifully presented dish excites me. I get a great deal of pleasure just… — Gayle King Copy Share Image
Pleasure is an important component of the quality of life, but by itself it does not bring happiness. Pleasure helps to maintain… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Vacation cruises are advertised as luxurious journeys to exotic places, but a chief pleasure is the reading of books ... . On… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
