The art of being agreeable frequently miscarries through the ambition which accompanies it. Wit, learning, wisdom,--what can more effectually conduce to the… — Richard Cumberland Copy Share Image
Scientific discovery is a private event, and the delight that accompanies it, or the despair of finding it illusory, does not travel.… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Love is the creative refinement of sex energy. And so, when love reaches perfection, the absence of sex automatically follows. A life… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You don't need candlelight and fireside glow to make Christmas happen. Trees, ornaments, gifts, and all of it are splendid embellishments. Not… — Jack W. Hayford Copy Share Image
The first cup caresses my dry lips and throat, The second shatters the walls of my loneliness, The third explores the dry… — Lu Tong Copy Share Image
Book readers are special people, and they will always turn to books as the ultimate pleasure. Those who do not read are… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
And there is no difference, in principle - but only in degree - between political and chattel slavery. The former, no less… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
“We don't value craftsmanship anymore! All we value is ruthless efficiency, and I say we deny our own humanity that way! Without… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I'm king of the dead and I make my throne On a monument slab of marble cold; And my scepter of rule… — Benjamin Copy Share Image
It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
“In consequence, when the pleasures have been removed which busy people derive from their actual activities, the mind cannot endure the house,… — Seneca Copy Share Image
Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
At that time, he was satisfying a sensual curiosity by experiencing the pleasures of people who live for love. He had believed… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction. I… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Life as a therapist is a life of service in which we daily transcend our personal wishes and turn our gaze toward… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it. Those who… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I never feel like I am "using" a voice, rather I am listening to a voice and recording it as faithfully as… — Micheline Aharonian Marcom Copy Share Image
In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female…In their traditional exhibitionist role women… — Laura Mulvey Copy Share Image
“We read the pagan sacred books with profit and delight. With myth and fable we are ever charmed, and find a pleasure… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
She had always lived her best life in dreams. She knew no greater pleasure than that moment of passage into the other… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
My chief time for reading is at night while brushing my hair before I go to bed, and as you may suppose,… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
“Only a fool can be happy. For happiness consists of two contradictory elements: contentment and pleasure. Enjoy pleasure and you have no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By utility is meant that property is any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness(all this in… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
abroad it is our habit to regard all other travelers in the light of personal and unpardonable grievances. They are intruders into… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
I have a horror of being self-indulgent and wasting time, and there is that risk in doing this kind of work. Are… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
How do you plan to keep me here during the day? An unblooded Forbearer shouldn't be sohard to vanquish."Vanquished by her? Amusing.… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
We like so much to talk of ourselves that we are never weary of those private interviews with a lover during the… — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
From what has been said we can clearly understand the nature of Love and Hate. Love is nothing else but pleasure accompanied… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I will never forget the pleasure and instruction I derived from working with a true master of his art, such as Edward… — Douglas Fairbanks, Jr Copy Share Image
My history of moving away from drugs is not the kind you hear from most people. Certainly not from celebrities, especially those… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
If a person asked my advice, before undertaking a long voyage, my answer would depend upon his possessing a decided taste for… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
