A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain. — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Nothing in or of this world measures up to the simple pleasure of experiencing the presence of God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Usually you're forced to do what necessity demands, and pleasure is a luxury. — Mike Connors Copy Share Image
The aesthetic pleasure of dance is a secondary reflection of the primary, vital joy of courtship. — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred - may… — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
The man who commits immorality does so because he thinks it will maximize pleasure if he can minimize the pain by keeping… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
I will always look back with great pleasure on the time spent in the DFB team. — Jerome Boateng Copy Share Image
You have only always to do what is right. It will become easier by practice, and you enjoy in the midst of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
The impermanence of the universe is manifest, inescapable. I know that, yet I am immoderately attached to this life, these pleasures, this… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
What nobility of feeling! To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! It is a thing, I confess, that… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
The Lord has not redeemed you so you might enjoy pleasures and luxuries or so that you might abandon yourself to ease… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Salter is a writer who particularly rewards those for whom reading is an intense pleasure. He is among the very few North… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
If I am incapable of washing dishes joyfully, if I want to finish them quickly so I can go and have dessert,… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The death-change comes. Death is another life. We bow our heads At going out, we think, and enter straight Another golden chamber… — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
All you need is already within you, only you must approach your self with reverence and love. Self-condemnation and self-distrust are grievous… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
“The trick here is, while the actual pleasure begins to recede and blur, we simultaneously bring the imagined pleasure more fully into… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
It is not in novelty but in habit that we find the greatest pleasure. — Raymond Radiguet Copy Share Image
When there is pleasure, there is often abandon, and mistakes are made. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
If it's a trip for pleasure, I always go with a comfortable outfit. — Julian Edelman Copy Share Image
