No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
For me, writing started as pleasure that became professionalized, so my relationship to it is a bit sullied. I'm working it out. — Katrina Onstad Copy Share Image
Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes. — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
Don't show pleasure in somebody's downfall,for you have no idea/knowledge of what the future holds in store for you. — Mercy Pheona Copy Share Image
People aren't interested in blueprints; they want to sense the painter's involvement and pleasure in the subject. . . . Paint a sense of place. — Paul Strisik Copy Share Image
Suffering itself is beloved: love and suffering are far closer to each other than love and pleasure. — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, inventing. The day I cease to learn, I must… — Alber Elbaz Copy Share Image
Confidentiality is the nature of all governments. Of course you may say, the government will always want to communicate the good news;… — Bernard Ingham Copy Share Image
Cultivate a love of skill. Learn theatrical skills. They will give you continual pleasure, self-confidence, and link you to fifty thousand years… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
And few hookups, if any, ever take place sober. And while wearing "beer goggles" may make people appear more attractive, it doesn't… — Michael Kimmel Copy Share Image
My brain is very fantastical. If I ever actually recorded myself, I could probably win a Grammy for sex talk. Being on… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Playing with appearances and mastering the arts of deception are among the aesthetic pleasures of life. They are also key components in… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“When deeply religious subjects view sacred iconography or reflect on their notion of God, brain scans reveal hyperactivity in the caudate nucleus,… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals --or, indeed, why it should be… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
I agree with you that it is important to examine our presuppositions, throughly and once for all, in order to establish something… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
“Originally and naturally, sexual pleasure was the good, the beautiful, the happy, that which united man with nature in general. When sexual… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Excellence is never granted to man but as the reward of labor. It argues no small strength of mind to persevere in… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
“I've been taking it easy on you, kid, can tell you're having fun. But it's all sensation to you so far. I… — Anne Thomas Copy Share Image
I want to be remembered for my football and the pleasure I gave people. — George Best Copy Share Image
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
